States Refuse To Reject Pursuing Claims Over Mixed PFAS Contamination

Maryland and South Carolina are refusing to preclude seeking recovery for PFAS contamination in areas where contamination from aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF) and non-AFFF sources may have commingled, marking a difference with the concession Illinois made in a similar suit that served as the basis to successfully remand its case to state court. “The States do not so concede,” Maryland and South Carolina say in an Oct. 11 letter to the U.S. Court of Appeals in the 4th Circuit. “Nonetheless,...