Water systems, and their design and construction experts, boost efforts to eliminate contamination from ubiquitous 'forever’ chemicals, a key component of widely used firefighting foam runoff—as federal rules, technologies and costs catch up.
June 5 trial of manufacturer 3M also halts as firm and municipal attorneys seek time to craft what one media report termed a
possible $10B settlement to include toxic impact compensation for other US water systems, towns and cities.