Green Buckeye RN

By Ken Ward Jr.
Staff writer

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Thousands of people who drank Parkersburg city water contaminated with C8 cannot sue DuPont Co. in a class action lawsuit over the company’s pollution, a federal judge has ruled.

Chief U.S. District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin has refused to certify a class of residents in a suit that sought medical monitoring for C8-related illnesses.

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The case is being closely watched around the country, with DuPont facing a similar lawsuit in New Jersey and two dozen state-level class action suits that allege C8 leached from Teflon-coated pans.

In a 32-page opinion issued Tuesday, Goodwin said lawyers for Parkersburg residents “presented compelling evidence exposure to C8 may be harmful to human health, and the evidence justifies the concerns expressed by plaintiffs in this case.”

But the judge said he remained unconvinced the lawsuit was proper for handling as a single class action, rather than many multiple individual suits.

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