[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "City of Birmingham [AL] files suit over firefighting foam"

[Lenny Siegel]

City of Birmingham files suit over firefighting foam

WBRC TV-6 News (Birmingham, AL)
March 3, 2021 

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The City of Birmingham filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday, March 2, 2021, against 3M and 25 other companies over a firefighting foam used to help fight petroleum-based fires.

The suit claims the companies knew the material had cancer-causing chemicals, but sold it, and didn’t warn communities about the risk.

The foam is frequently used at airports. The suit claims a 2019 DoD report found city-owned property at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth Airport to be “highly contaminated” with the chemicals included in the foam

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For the entire story, see
https://www.wbrc.com/2021/03/03/city-birmingham-files-suit-over-firefighting-foam/

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Lenny Siegel
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