“This has indeed been a long-fought case, and it's been years of dedicated work without compensation for many involved,” Paul Napoli of Napoli Shkolnik

A U.S. judge on Tuesday awarded over $956 million in legal fees to plaintiffs’ lawyers who secured two settlements worth more than $11 billion with major manufacturers of toxic “forever chemicals” on behalf of public water systems.

The award will be dispersed in stages as the settlements are paid out, and a special master will determine how the funds are distributed between firms.

Roughly 26,000 water systems across the country will use the rest of the settlement money to test for and treat PFAS contamination, which is now mandated, opens new tab under a new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule issued this month.

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