North Carolina man drove to court after 8 years, then learned Chemours had settled PFAS case

By Leslie Sattler | Yahoo!News | July 20, 2026

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"After an eight-year wait to finally see his case reach trial, North Carolina resident Mike Watters drove to Raleigh, running on two hours of sleep, to watch opening arguments in a major PFAS lawsuit over releases of GenX and other chemicals from the Fayetteville Works plant near Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Instead, he learned before the trial began that the case had been settled out of court.

What happened?

The lawsuit includes 2,658 plaintiffs, among them Watters, who accused Chemours and DuPont of releasing GenX and other PFAS from the Fayetteville Works plant near Fayetteville, North Carolina, according to Inside Climate News. The alleged contamination spread through the Cape Fear River and into nearby air, soil, groundwater, and private wells."