Yakima County, Washington residents blame their health conditions, including cancers, on aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF) products that were used at the 330,000 acre Yakima Training Center. These AFFF products, a type of PFAS known as the ‘forever chemicals’, were used during firefighting exercises for decades at the facility, contaminating the drinking water supply. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Fire training centers and the use of PFAS-containing foam at these locations have become epicenters for contamination of water supplies nationwide,” Hunter Shkolnik of Napoli Shkolnik, representing the residents, told Law360 in an email. “This case is just one more example of the dangers these chemicals pose to our communities.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Seg\u00fan la demanda, The 3M Company y otros fabricantes conspiraron durante d\u00e9cadas para ocultar los riesgos ambientales y de salud p\u00fablica de PFAS, fabricando y vendiendo la espuma contra incendios y sus componentes al Ej\u00e9rcito de los EE. UU. para su uso durante los ejercicios de extinci\u00f3n de incendios en el centro de entrenamiento desde el La espuma se cre\u00f3 en la d\u00e9cada de 1960.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s the latest legal action against 3M and other industrial manufacturers over PFAS groundwater contamination<\/p>\n\n\n\n