Nearly 100 people who live near Fairchild Air Force Base have filed a federal class-action lawsuit against manufacturers of a firefighting foam that has contaminated the area\u2019s water supply.<\/p>\n
The plaintiffs claim they have suffered from an array of serious health problems caused by the water contamination, which resulted from decades of foam runoff from a training site on the air base. Some also claim the pollution has diminished their property values.<\/p>\n
They are working with Napoli Shkolnik, a heavy-hitting New York firm that has secured major settlements in cases involving\u00a0 fracking<\/a>, water contamination<\/a> and other environmental issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nearly 100 people who live near Fairchild Air Force Base have filed a federal class-action lawsuit against manufacturers of a firefighting foam that has contaminated the area\u2019s water supply. The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":427,"template":"","whitepaper_category":[96],"whitepaper-source":[217],"class_list":["post-2451","whitepapers","type-whitepapers","status-publish","hentry","whitepaper_category-pfoa-water-contamination","whitepaper-source-the-spokesman-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/2451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/whitepapers"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/2451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"whitepaper_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper_category?post=2451"},{"taxonomy":"whitepaper-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper-source?post=2451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}