3M volition wage $99 cardinal to settee complaints related to wellness and the environment.
The US radical 3M, which among different things manufactures anti-COVID protective look masks, said Tuesday it volition wage $99 cardinal to settee complaints related to wellness and the environment.
"3M has reached a collaborative statement to resoluteness ongoing litigation and negotiations related to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) adjacent 3M's Decatur, Alabama facility," the institution said successful a statement.
Lawsuits had been filed against 3M successful 3 US states—Alabama, Illinois and Minnesota—as good arsenic successful Germany and Belgium, charging that its products incorporate perchance harmful chemicals known arsenic PFAS which are contiguous successful wide assortment of products specified arsenic Teflon, paints, packaging oregon textiles.
The agreement was signed with the metropolis of Decatur, Morgan County, plaintiffs from Saint John, and the Tennessee Riverkeeper organization, said the shaper of post-it notes, adhesive tape and COVID look masks.
"Through these agreements, taxable to last approval, 3M volition enactment activities to code PFAS that 3M manufactured oregon disposed of, arsenic good arsenic to heighten the prime of beingness for Decatur residents," the radical said.
3M said successful April 2019 that it had acceptable speech $548 cardinal to settee the dispute, arsenic good arsenic different dealing with complaints against its coal mines successful Kentucky and West Virginia.
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