For decades, DuPont manufactured PFAS-type chemicals in a plant in a tiny South Jersey town on marshy land near the Delaware River. Known as "forever chemicals" because they do not break down easily in the body, PFAS increasingly have been linked to birth defects, cancer, obesity and diabetes. Potential liabilities associated with the chemicals — both environmental cleanup and ongoing health care costs — have been estimated in the tens of billions of dollars. Now, however, there's a risk that people with illnesses linked to the chemicals could end up without compensation. That's because DuPont recently unloaded its PFAS obligations to smaller companies that do not have the money to pay for them. | 
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