SWEBAL, a Swedish defence manufacturer, has invested €3m ($3.5m) for the construction of a new TNT production facility in ...

In the late 1990s, a 3M scientist found the company’s forever chemicals in almost every human blood sample she analyzed. In the late 1990s, 3M chemist Kris Hansen tested samples from dozens of ...

Consumer products giant 3M announced Tuesday that it will stop making and using a ubiquitous class of long-lasting, hazardous chemicals that can pose health risks to millions of Americans. The ...

When 3M announced in 2000 it would stop making the chemical backbone of its Scotchgard stain repellent, ... The compounds are so toxic there is effectively no safe level of exposure, ...

PFAS may be lurking in your water and food supply 04:31. Traverse City, Mich. — Chemical manufacturer 3M Co. will pay at least $10.3 billion to settle lawsuits over contamination of many U.S ...

"I felt like I had discovered that PFOS, a compound that was really unique to 3M, was widespread in the general population," she said. Kris Hansen WCCO So she told her boss. "He looked at it and ...

3M said drinking water is being made available to employees at the Greystone location, ... Currently, state standards are 70 parts per trillion for both compound, either alone or combined.

3M has reached a $10 billion settlement over "forever chemicals" in drinking water. NPR's Debbie Elliott talks with Scott Summy, an attorney for water systems that sued the chemical maker.