TRENTON, NJ—New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin, Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Shawn LaTourette, and the State of New Jersey have secured a historic settlement with DuPont and related companies valued at over $2 billion. This agreement marks the largest environmental recovery by a single state and ranks among the most significant legal recoveries in U.S. history.

The agreement settles the State’s case against DuPont regarding PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), also known as “forever chemicals,” contamination across the state and addresses PFAS and other contamination at and from four historical DuPont industrial sites: Chambers Works, Parlin, Pompton Lakes Works, and Repauno. DuPont’s decades-long use and discharge of PFAS has polluted drinking water and natural resources throughout New Jersey.

This agreement comes just months after the Kelley Drye team assisted New Jersey secure a $450 million settlement with 3M for PFAS, and one month into the first State case in the country to go to trial for PFAS contamination, remediation, and natural resource damages.

The trial against E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. (now known as EIDP, Inc.), The Chemours Company, Corteva, Inc., and DuPont de Nemours, Inc. began in Camden, New Jersey on May 19, 2025, before Chief Judge Renée Marie Bumb, U.S. District Judge for the District of New Jersey. For four weeks, the State tried five combined bench trials on statutory liability claims and defensive issues against the DuPont entities related to PFAS and other contamination discharged from DuPont’s Chambers Works site on the banks of the Delaware River. Prior to the parties reaching a settlement, the Court was set to resume with a sixth bench trial on the State’s fraudulent transfer claims related to DuPont’s 2015 restructuring and a jury trial later this the fall on the State’s common law claims and all damages.

The settlement is valued at more than $2 billion. Foundational to the settlement is the agreement that DuPont is responsible to remediate the Chambers Works, Parlin, Pompton Lakes, and Repauno industrial sites, to address PFAS released from the Chambers Works and Parlin Sites, and to pay all costs and damages called for under the settlement. DuPont operated some of these sites for more than a century, causing massive PFAS and other contamination, and significant injuries to New Jersey’s waters and other natural resources. The remainder of the settling defendants are agreeing to stand behind the remediation and funding obligations of DuPont, ensuring that the polluter pays, not the taxpayers of New Jersey.