MARINETTE, Wis. — A northeast Wisconsin company, Tyco Fire Products, agreed to pay $10 million for contaminating well water with a fire-fighting foam. The foam contained cancer-causing PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals” because they never ever break down chemically. The State of Wisconsin sued Tyco in 2022, alleging that the company had been contaminating acres around a firefighting training center in this Green By community since the 1960s. In Madison the settlement was hailed by Governor Tony Evers as “a key step toward making su e polluters are held accountable, take responsibility for their actions, and ensure Wisconsinites don’t have to foot the bill for cleaning up the messes that others made.” Tyco is a corporate unit of Irish-owned Johnson Controls.
