( May 16, 2025, 11:44 AM EDT) -- NEW BERN, N.C. — A federal judge in North Carolina has granted the request of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. and its affiliates for a Lone Pine case management order requiring plaintiffs to submit expert declarations confirming their injuries and proximate causation in numerous separate but related lawsuits alleging that DuPont is liable for contaminating drinking water with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances XE "per- and polyfluoroalkyl
substances" (PFAS). The lead case involves Eric Conklin, a man with cancer who says DuPont has a history of “willfully and wantonly” discharging PFAS into the Cape Fear River....