How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet — Veritasium
The biggest chemical cover up in history. PFAS has polluted the entire global water system. Now, potentially dangerous forever chemicals are being found in the entire US population.
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How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet — Veritasium
The biggest chemical cover up in history. PFAS has polluted the entire global water system. Now, potentially dangerous forever chemicals are being found in the entire US population.
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Minnesota headquartered 3M and CenterPoint Energy, the state’s largest natural gas provider, have taken down their webpages relating to diversity, equity and inclusion. https://www.minnpost.com/race-health-equity/2025/02/3m-and-centerpoint-quietly-remove-dei-from-their-websites/
MinnPost · 3M and CenterPoint quietly remove DEI from their websites
What a powerful and very informative work of investigative journalism. A must read or listen “How 3M Discovered, Then Concealed, the Dangers of Forever Chemicals
The company found its own toxic compounds in human blood—and kept selling them.” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/27/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-toxic #foreverchemicals #greed #3M
The New Yorker · How 3M Discovered, Then Concealed, the Dangers of Forever Chemicals
9 things you need to know about the inside story of how 3M allowed PFOS to seep into all of us while sitting on research that showed the chemical is toxic.
#News #ForeverChemicals #Safety #3M #EPA #PFAS #PFOS
https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-3m-pfos-forever-chemicals-investigation
ProPublicaNine Takeaways From Our Investigation Into 3M’s Forever ChemicalsWhat you need to know about the inside story of how the company allowed PFOS to seep into all of us while sitting on research that showed the chemical is toxic.
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@ProPublica Wow! That's a very damning article.
Excellent work.
#PFAS #3M #PrivateSectorProfitOverPeople
"What Hansen didn’t know was that 3M had already conducted animal studies — two decades earlier. They had shown PFOS to be toxic, yet the results remained secret, even to many at the company."
Commercial companies have institutionalised fooling people, by dismissing their profit is bad for peoples' health while they already know that in fact it is.
It is criminal and should be treated as such.
#PFAS #Pollution #Toxic #UnderTheRug #3M
https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-inside-story
ProPublicaToxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
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A powerful article.
Companies spy on us.
Companies lie to us.
Companies poison us.
Why does #3M still exist? Their company charter should be revoked. Their assets should be stripped and sold. Every employee fired. Every single one. Everyone complicit should be in a prison cell.
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That summer, an in-house librarian at 3M delivered a surprising article to Hansen’s office mailbox. It had been written in 1981 by 3M scientists, and it described a method for measuring fluorine in blood, indicating that even back then the company was testing for fluorochemicals. One scientist mentioned in the article, Richard Newmark, still worked for 3M, in a low-lying structure nicknamed the “nerdy building.” Hansen arranged to meet with him there.
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You #Motherfuckers
#3M
LEAVE IT TO HUMANS TO NOT ONLY SH*T WHERE THEY EAT -- WITH HARD TO BREAK FLUORINE-CARBON BONDS! GOOD JOB HUMANS! MAYBE CONSIDER ALL POSSIBLE OUTCOMES BEFORE MAKING STUPID DECISIONS!
‘This is #Chernobyl’: #Texas ranchers say ‘forever chemicals’ in waste-based fertilizers ruined their land
Story by Rebecca Lopez
April 28, 2024
"Ranchers here say their cattle, fish and horses are dying and getting sick because of a fertilizer spread on nearby farmland.
"The fertilizer is made from treated human waste from the city of Fort Worth.
"The company that makes the fertilizer says its products meet government standards.
"County officials have launched a criminal investigation, and ranchers are suing, saying runoff from the fertilizer has made their land useless."
#PFAS #PFOS #WaterIsLife #WaterPollution #PFASPollution #PFOA #PTFE #Wildlife #Cancer #Contamination #Chemicals #Environment #FoodPackaging #Plastics #FireFightingFoam #Firefighters #Health #Mining #Lubricants #Electronics #Cosmetics #PFNA #PFHxS #PFB #GenXChemicals
#Toxic #DowChemical #DuPont #3M #BASF #Teflon #RainWater #DrinkingWater
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3M’s Floppy Disks: A Story of Success and the Birth of Imation - 3M, or as it was officially called until 2002, the Minnesota Mining and Manufactur... - https://hackaday.com/2024/04/05/3ms-floppy-disks-a-story-of-success-and-the-birth-of-imation/ #retrocomputing #floppydiskette #3m
Hackaday · 3M’s Floppy Disks: A Story Of Success And The Birth Of Imation3M, or as it was officially called until 2002, the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company is one of those odd-duck companies where if you ask what products they manufacture the answer is pretty…
Kudos to #SydneyMorningHerald for an honest headline! The only improvement would have been to name 3M.
#ForeverChemicals #PFAS #ToxicInc #3M #RegulatoryCapture #IndustrialDisease
I just figured out that #3M stands for the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company.
3M knew its chemicals were harmful decades ago, but didn't tell the public
https://minnesotareformer.com/2022/12/15/toxic-3m-knew-its-chemicals-were-harmful-decades-ago-but-didnt-tell-the-public-government/
#3M #Chemicals #Environment #rr
Minnesota Reformer · Toxic: 3M knew its chemicals were harmful decades ago, but didn’t tell the public, government - Minnesota Reformer3M knew its chemicals were toxic decades ago, but didn’t tell the public or government, internal documents show.
Wat is er hallucinant en moreel verwerpelijk aan het opruimen van rotzooi die je als bedrijf zelf gemaakt hebt?
Chemiebedrijf 3M trekt ten strijde tegen PFAS-verplichtingen: “Hallucinant en moreel verwerpelijk” (Zwijndrecht*) | Gazet van Antwerpen Mobile
https://www.gva.be/cnt/dmf20230908_97587516 (pay wall)
#PFAS #3M
*voor NLers: 'Zwijndrecht, België' 
3M has agreed to pay $6 billion to resolve hundreds of thousands of lawsuits alleging it sold defective earplugs to the U.S. military that led to hearing damage for combat troops. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2023/08/30/3m-settles-military-earplug-lawsuits/?utm_content=buffer710c6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #business #3m #us #hearing #usmilitary #defense #bankruptcy
The Japan Times · 3M to pay $6 billion to settle military earplug lawsuits
Tape is Very, Very Quiet - If someone stops by and asks you to help them make some noisy thing less noisy, yo... - https://hackaday.com/2023/09/09/tape-is-very-very-quiet/ #noisedampening #science #tape #3m
Hackaday · Tape Is Very, Very QuietIf someone stops by and asks you to help them make some noisy thing less noisy, you probably wouldn’t reach for a roll of tape. But [The Action Lab] shows some 3M tape made for exactly that p…
Dielectric Mirror Shines Bright - We knew the mirrors in our house were not really very good mirrors, optically spea... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/15/dielectric-mirror-shines-bright/ #dielectricmirror #science #mirror #3m
Hackaday · Dielectric Mirror Shines BrightWe knew the mirrors in our house were not really very good mirrors, optically speaking. Your mirror eats up 20 to 40 percent of the light that hits it. High-quality first-surface mirrors are better…