From the Editorial Board: Just like DDT, PCBs and asbestos, a group of substances obliquely known as PFAS, are incredibly useful, potentially deadly and devilishly difficult to clean up.
Opinion content—editorials, columns and guest commentaries—is created independent of news reporting and is exclusive to subscribers.3M's Cordova chemical plant on the Mississippi River in Illinois upstream from the Quad Cities on Dec. 7, 2022. The company dumps highly toxic PFAS chemicals into the river.
This stuff has spread from the North Pole to Antarctica, and many people are consuming PFAS in quantities exceeding the EPA’s latest proposed standards. No one can be sure if any amount is truly safe. PFAS also are used to prevent contamination of surgical gowns. Commercial aircraft and low-emissions vehicles similarly rely on them.
One of the juiciest targets is 3M, the Minneapolis-based conglomerate and PFAS pioneer. Bloomberg recently reported that 3M has agreed to pay at least $10 billion to U.S. cities and towns to resolve water pollution claims, though as of Friday no settlement had been announced.
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