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Carol Thompson

Nessel sues company for PFAS, other pollution in Michigan

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said Thursday she had filed a civil lawsuit against a metal finishing and plating company she says contaminated nine sites in and around Grand Rapids with PFAS and other hazardous chemicals.

Nessel sued FKI Hardware Inc., formerly known as the Keeler Brass Company, in Kent County Circuit Court to "seek compliance and damages" and get the company to address toxic releases it left behind at its former sites. FKI is a California corporation with headquarters in Oklahoma. It operated in Michigan through 2016, Nessel said in the legal filings.

The attorney general hopes to force the company to investigate soil and groundwater contamination left over from its production between 1893 and 2016 and determine whether harmful vapors are escaping into buildings above the contamination and threatening people's health.

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