New Jersey has reached a settlement potentially worth over $2 billion with DuPont and two other chemical companies to resolve a lawsuit over decades of PFAS contamination at four industrial sites in the state, officials announced Monday.

The agreement is billed as the largest environmental settlement ever made by a state and marks New Jersey's third deal in the last three years to address long-term impacts of the "forever chemicals," which have been linked to a wide range of public health concerns.

“Polluters who place profit above public well-being by releasing poisonous PFAS and other contamination in our State can expect to be held responsible to clean up their mess and fully compensate the State and its citizens for the precious natural resources they’ve damaged or destroy

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