DuPont faces a lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James seeking cleanup costs and accountability for decades of PFAS contamination.

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        "excerpt": "Cool, now do the US Navy for dumping barrels of it off the coast of California. These aren't sealed barrels, those would just float, the sailors punctured the barrels with an axe before dumping. Sometime just after WWII.",
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      "[post] Attorney General Letitia James wants them to pay for cleanup and warn people going forward.",
      "[post] New York’s lawsuit is about cleaning up damage that’s already done.",
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