Yakima County, Washington residents blame their health conditions, including cancers, on aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF) products that were used at the 330,000 acre Yakima Training Center. These AFFF products, a type of PFAS known as the 'forever chemicals', were used during firefighting exercises for decades at the facility, contaminating the drinking water supply.

"Fire training centers and the use of PFAS-containing foam at these locations have become epicenters for contamination of water supplies nationwide," Hunter Shkolnik of Napoli Shkolnik, representing the residents, told Law360 in an email. "This case is just one more example of the dangers these chemicals pose to our communities."

According to the lawsuit, The 3M Company and other manufacturers for decades conspired to conceal the environmental and public health risks of PFAS, making and selling the firefighting foam and its components to the U.S. Army for use during fire suppression exercises at the training center since the foam was created in the 1960s.

It's the latest legal action against 3M and other industrial manufacturers over PFAS groundwater contamination

Original article can be read here: https://www.law360.com/corporate/articles/1679307/wash-residents-hit-3m-with-another-pfas-suit

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