Detroit Free Press:
Plymouth Township has reached settlements worth more than $300,000 total with the chemical giant DuPont over dozens of trees that were killed or damaged on public property by the weed-control agent Imprelis.
DuPont has paid out unspecified millions in settlements nationwide after withdrawing its herbicide Imprelis from the market in 2011 and acknowledging it was causing some tree species to die, including Norway spruce and white pines. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said at the time that DuPont knew the product could injure or kill certain trees yet failed to make that known to consumers.