Napoli Shkolnik has filed a\u00a0federal lawsuit in the District of Massachusetts on behalf of the town of Pepperell,\u00a0MA,\u00a0targeting six major industrial defendants,\u00a0including\u00a0Honeywell\u00a0International Inc., Georgia-Pacific,\u00a0Neenah Inc., Ahlstrom-Munksjo\u00a0Paper Inc., Hollingsworth & Vose Company,\u00a0and Weyerhaeuser\u00a0Company,\u00a0for their role in\u00a0allegedly\u00a0contaminating the town’s drinking water with toxic\u00a0PFAS \u201cforever chemicals.\u201d\u00a0The lawsuit\u00a0alleges that\u00a0the defendants\u00a0released\u00a0hazardous chemicals from their industrial operations\u00a0into\u00a0the Nashua River, resulting in\u00a0the\u00a0contamination of the town’s groundwater.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The firm\u2019s team, led by Partners\u00a0Paul J. Napoli<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Hank Naughton<\/a>,\u00a0is\u00a0focused on securing justice\u00a0for the over 9,000 residents of Pepperell, whose drinking water has\u00a0been\u00a0tainted by PFAS contamination for\u00a0years. PFAS exposure has been linked to serious health conditions, including cancer, immune system damage, and developmental complications. The town is seeking to hold\u00a0the companies\u00a0accountable for the cleanup costs, which could exceed $28 million.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n In an official statement, Paul J. Napoli emphasized,\u00a0\u201cThousands of Pepperell residents have been drinking PFAS-contaminated water for decades because Honeywell and other companies released dangerous chemicals from their facilities into the waterways feeding the community\u2019s drinking supply. These are real families who will face real health consequences from these toxins. We are working on behalf of the Town of Pepperell to hold parties accountable, push for remediation, and advocate for changes to ensure this\u00a0doesn\u2019t\u00a0happen again.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Read more about the lawsuit in the\u00a0Boston Herald.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n You can also find Napoli Shkolnik featured in articles about the lawsuit by\u00a0The Boston Globe<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Law360<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Nashoba Valley Voice<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>The Sentinel and Enterprise<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>The Lowell Sun<\/em><\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Hoodline.<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Napoli Shkolnik has filed a\u00a0federal lawsuit in the District of Massachusetts on behalf of the town of Pepperell,\u00a0MA,\u00a0targeting six major industrial defendants,\u00a0including\u00a0Honeywell\u00a0International Inc., Georgia-Pacific,\u00a0Neenah Inc., Ahlstrom-Munksjo\u00a0Paper Inc., Hollingsworth & Vose…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","whitepaper_category":[345],"whitepaper-source":[],"class_list":["post-21164","whitepapers","type-whitepapers","status-publish","hentry","whitepaper_category-napoli-shkolnik-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/21164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/whitepapers"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/21164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"whitepaper_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper_category?post=21164"},{"taxonomy":"whitepaper-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper-source?post=21164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}