1New Jersey officials announced Monday a landmark $2 billion-plus settlement with DuPont and related companies over long-term pollution caused by toxic PFAS chemicals at four industrial sites across the state.

The agreement, reached after a month of trial proceedings in federal court, is the largest environmental settlement ever secured by a single state. It resolves multiple lawsuits involving the former E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Co. (now EIDP, Inc.), as well as Chemours, Corteva, and other DuPont-related entities.

The settlement addresses contamination from PFAS—also known as “forever chemicals”—along with other hazardous pollutants at four sites: Pompton Lakes Works (Passaic County), Parlin (Middlesex County), Repauno (Gloucester County), and Chambers Works (Salem County). Some of t

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