DuPont agreed to a $27M settlement to resolve a class action lawsuit by the village of Hoosick Falls in upstate New York that ...

Chemical maker DuPont has agreed to a $27 million settlement to resolve a nearly decade-long lawsuit over the contamination of an upstate New York village's water supply.

The deal was announced Wednesday by lawyers representing residents of Hoosick Falls, located northwest of Albany, just as the case was headed to trial in federal court this week.