Grand Bay Water Works, the utility that provides drinking water for the south Mobile County town, is suing corporate giants 3M, DuPont and Waste Management, among others, alleging its drinking water is contaminated with PFAS, called “forever chemicals.”
Next month, a federal judge will determine if the case will proceed in federal court or be returned to Mobile County Circuit Court. The suit was filed in April.
“The same chemical properties that make PFAS profitable for the PFAS manufacturers are the properties that make PFAS dangerous to humans,” Grand Bay’s complaint reads. “The PFAS manufacturers and the other defendants in this case have all caused or contributed to—and continue to cause or contribute to—the invasion and contamination by toxic PFAS chemicals of the drinking water supply in and near the Grand Bay community.”…