Eleven local governments near the Chemours facility in Bladen County and the state of North Carolina have settled for $590 million with chemical companies Chemours, DuPont and Corteva.
First-term Democratic N.C. Attorney General Jeff Jackson announced the settlement recently in Wilmington at the Battleship Park. The settlement does not resolve all litigations; for example, the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority last week said it would move forward with its October 2017 filed lawsuit against Chemours and DuPont over contamination to the Cape Fear River.
Taken together, four settlements involving all of part of Chemours, DuPont and Corteva have totaled $3.095 billion. Included in that calculation is one from earlier this year, another from August 2025, and another from 2023 approved the following year. Chemours, in a release last week, said the latest settlement is $455 million over 15 years…