( April 10, 2026, 10:22 AM EDT) -- PENDLETON, Ore. — While Amazon Data Services Inc. (ADS) has agreed to pay $20.5 million in a class action settlement with a group of residents to resolve allegations that more than a dozen of its data centers in the Lower Umatilla Basin in Oregon contributed to groundwater contamination in violation of state law and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the defendants in a similar pending lawsuit can object to the terms, as stated in a joint motion to consolidate the two cases....