[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "3M to pay Minnesota $850M in surprise settlement over chemical disposal"

[Lenny Siegel]

3M to pay Minnesota $850M in surprise settlement over chemical disposal
"3M fought for almost a decade ... spending hundreds of millions on lawyers to dodge their way around the law ... but today became their day of reckoning!"

by Lorraine Chow 
EcoWatch 
February 22, 2018


On Tuesday, a trial over Minnesota’s $5 billion lawsuit against manufacturer 3M Company – the biggest environmental lawsuit in state history – was set to begin with jury selection.

But on that very same day, the Maplewood-based manufacturer agreed to an $850 million settlement, finally putting an end to eight years of litigation over the water pollution case.

The lawsuit was originally filed by Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson back in 2010, claiming 3M contaminated the state’s water supply from 1950 until the early 2000s by dumping millions of pounds of waste into the ground and the Mississippi River from the production of perfluorochemicals, or PFCs, that the company used in its lines of nonstick products such as Scotchgard.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.nationofchange.org/2018/02/22/3m-pay-minnesota-850m-surprise-settlement-chemical-disposal/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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