Benoit v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp.

ELR Citation: 47 ELR 20100
No(s). 16-cv-00930 (N.D.N.Y. Aug 2, 2017) (Kahn, J.)

A district court allowed suits against two manufacturing companies to go forward for groundwater contamination. Residents of Hoosick Falls, New York, brought suit against the manufacturers after they discovered perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) in their water supply. The residents, in 16 consolidated ca...