How Hush Puppies Shoes Sparked A Water Crisis
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- Wolverine Worldwide is home to brands like Chaco, Sperry, Merrell and Hush Puppies. It's also a $2.4 billion global corporation and a point of contention in its hometown. For years, the shoemaker bought 3M Scotchgard coating to waterproof its Hush Puppies shoes. That coating contained a chemical compound called PFAS, which scientists now know can be toxic. Wolverine's tannery waste leached those toxic chemicals in the ground for years, contaminating residents drinking water and the local river.
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How Hush Puppies Shoes Sparked A Water Crisis
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Isn't this the sort of thing the EPA is supposed to investigate without having to be petitioned by a citizen?
They would but they are so underfunded that they can't operate efficiently or make effective changes.
best government is a government so small you can drown it in bath water!
The EPA took the place of Property Rights. The EPA gives permission to Polite.
I thought the EPA had plenty of man power, otherwise why would they have enough time to bother the Ghostbusters?
at this point, the epa is just a source of information. i remember contacting them over lead contamination in my city and they directed me to another federal agency that was supposed to take care of it. theres so much confusion caused by the bureaucracy.
Hush Puppies? I thought that they were a type of food, I didn't even know about the shoes.
You must be young,
I believe you're thinking of _SLUSH_ Puppies
kek. neither did I
@@amcghie7 what are slush puppies?
@@reizayin Its sort of like a slightly slushier snow cone so that you can drink it
You'll usually find them for sale in cinemas etc
Could you please do a story on the town of Clyde, OH? There is some kind of contamination causing cancer in children and dogs, and although some point the finger at the Whirpool factory, there is no answer after 25+ years.
Or Miamisburg OH, where they created nuclear triggers for YEARS and we STILL HAVE PEOPLE DYING and with thyroid disease
Erin Benton I just read about it. Unbelievable the government built the site on top of ancient burial grounds around ww2 and didn't clean up the radioactive waste until 2010, also destroying the artifacts left behind from ancient civilizations.
@@6thGearGarage it was done on purpose. Just continuation of genocide.
This is one aspect of manufacturing people don't think about. A lot of people want to bring back manufacturing jobs. But how do you deal with the environmental impact? And this is one of the reasons the US cannot compete with China for low-cost manufacturing: The environmental standards are higher in the US. In China, this type of dumping happens every day, but the government controls everything, so individuals cannot sue, making it easy for manufacturers to cut costs.
Yeah, one major benefit of exporting all our manufacturing to China is that we are also exporting all of the environmental damage that is associated with these industries. The Chinese have absolutely destroyed their country on the altar of progress. The only reason we don't hear about is because of how secretive they are about their country (It's illegal to even make accurate maps in China).
such a sociopathic statement “harming others is better then harming ourselves” we have been able to beat leather to make it soft and usable since the beginning of time, the need for chemicals is about being lazy. our want for cheaper products is lazy, people in third world counties work for days to make a pair of shoes for themselves but if your on government assistance you can get a pair in a month. that’s a kinda privilage we will never be able to comprehend
@@amarahc4351 I don't know if you are responding to me or to Anthony Herrera. I was pointing out the fact that manufacturing has a major impact on the environment, and raising the standards in the US has contributed to making most manufacturing move to China, where the standards are lower. I think Anthony has more or less agreed to my assertions.
You brought up the issue of people being on government assistance, which I ask: Is that relevant to the topic at hand? Please explain.
@@amarahc4351 Near the end of the last century the American people decided they were unwilling to pay the heavy environmental and human costs associated with cheap goods. So they exported it overseas, mostly to China where the government was eager to sacrifice their people for explosive economic progress. The American people benefited, the Chinese Communist party benefited, and as a result of this arrangement, the Chinese people now suffer choking air, and toxic lands. I was not advocating for this morally evil arrangement in my earlier statement. But there is no doubt that all Americans, including myself, have benefited from the Chinese people paying this heavy toll.
Anthony Herrera your first sentence was “one major benefit....” continuing about exporting environmental damaging processes. phrasing it as a positive for you is outright saying “it’s better to hurt others then ourselves”, ethically you don’t get to acknowledge putting hardship onto others as taking it off yourself
Well, after seeing the whole news I have a question. Why are they talking about wolverine, hush puppies and tanneries, and they are not talking about 3M, which was the developer, producer, seller and distributor about the chemical?
Juan Pablo Salazar most likely because 3M is only the producer not the ones who actually dump it it’s like guns you blame the users not the creators
Well, at the time they did dump the product it is highly plausible they did it in a way that was deemed legal at the time. And also, they were not aware of the efects the product had on people’s health, as the only effect they were looking for was waterproofing the shoes so customers feet wouldn’t get wet. Similar stories are happening all over the world with products such as asbestos, lead or metal based pigments, which were deemed safe at some point in time but with modern chemistry it was found out they are not.
it’s like cigarettes , when it was created and distributed it hadn’t been tested/ had only been tested by bias sources, so they had no information on the dangers, leaving it to the people to use the appeal to ignorance to trust it. no one morally goes after the natives for smoking tobacco first and introducing the idea, 3M is more liable because they where responsible to do the testing but if the testing came back safe in that time, that’s not on them
The must've supplied the product to more than Wolverine which means there are potentially a lot more towns that are a toxic hazard
Amarah C doctors begin speculating lung cancer maybe caused by cigarette smoke as far back as 1912. Cigarette companies have sought to suppress and contradict scientific studies until the overwhelming facts stop the charade. I do not think that 3M was any more ignorant to the repercussions of their chemicals any more than the cigarette companies were.
Your health and your children's future for a paycheck today.
How many have made that trade?.
A lot of us have to, and thats what sucks.
Sadly that’s the reality of the poor and companies prey on that
I'm scared that I have potentially...😕😕
@@nicke1903 keep an eye out and stay safe until something better comes along.
EPA not doing their job. And instead focusing on trivial things.
I'm glad I was never a Hush Puppies shoes customer.
They're being purposefully understaffed and underfunded, being headed by administrators who have ties to industries that have plenty to gain with deregulation.
Imagine destroying a whole ecosystem just to make subpar shoes
Subpar?? Lmaaaoo. You've clearly never worn hush puppies. I wear hush puppies to work everyday. They are robust and very comfortable. Been wearing mine since 2 years now.
Imagine not understanding a joke
@@omi_god typical baby boomer
Chris baby boomers destroyed the economy, work rights, the ecosystem, the earth, they literally destroyed everything our grandparents built, baby boomers are the cancer and thanks to god they dying everyday
@@omi_god Funny thing is, he it probably wasn't a joke. He's just saying that because he got called out.
What a relief to hear that the EPA’s involved. We can certainly trust that they’ll get to the bottom of this and help protect us from pollutants in our drinking water. 😂😂😂
Yeah after about a decade of "investigation" and a bunch of people in that town dead they'll definitely solve it lol
That's called American Type democracy!
Yeah sure... Right after trump shuts them down completly and throws the American people to the wolves!
Maybe if they weren't being gutted at the moment then they could!
St Paul MN has surrounding communities near the 3M plant that have had the same contamination issues that has "apparently" gotten better.
Dustin W they settled out of court on a class action lawsuit back in 2017 I believe
yep a measly few hundred million and they produce a clone chemical of genX which in honesty will be as bad and catastrophic as the last.
sorry i think theyve had 2 cases settled now, 1 with the town and im sure the government stopped them from using Genx which is the chemical that polluted and killed that town off basically.
Being a Michigan resident the whole state is completely contaminated with business and government waste... I saw a map recently of pfos in water around Michigan and it looks like it was a lot more saturated than any other state
I've never even heard of these shoes before. Jeez, making me feel like I live in a cave.
They made one of the most popular school and work shoes around .
Well...step into the light!
Maria Rodriguez in the US maybe, not Europe.
@@Horizon301. 🇨🇦 as kids we had “good shoes” (for church) hush puppies for play and KEDS for gym class 🇨🇦
I love CNBC and their journalism, so informative and actually interesting. Keep it up!
Brian Bailey they sucks
Dude find your own news. Stop supporting this garbage news network please.
The only winners in a senario like this are all the lawyers.
Usually in cases like these, lawyers go pro bono.. so stop thinking of them as a vile bunch because they charge steep fees on regular cases.. that's how much their time is worth
@@skolarii they will get paid after the settlement. 3m and wolverine will pay lawyers millions.
You had me at "tannery near a major water source." Those don't tend to work out so well, and hexavalent chromium is kind of a big thing in the cancer world, nevermind PFAS which apparently is pretty nasty too.
Another good video once again!!! *TOP NOTCH JOURNALISM, EXPOSING BILLION $$$ COMPANIES !!!*
Ok i know this is in the US, but i wonder if people from developing country knows this?
P.S. but can you make the subtitles in sync with the audio, thanks :)
天吉Mark River pollution in India due to tanning and dyeing is terrible.
Well, developing countries benefit from all the decades later study of these old substances so probably aren't using them. But then, they are using new products that don't have the long term studies either.
Bbc 10 years ago haha
“I don’t care how bathrooms, just no neighbors.” Wow well that’s a whole ass mood
I will not be buying any products from Wolverine and I will be very vocal and sharing this information.
I would argue it's not Hush Puppy'ss fault but 3m instead. 3m sold them a product which 3m claimed to be safe.
Hush Puppy is only covering their rear after being told fraudulent information. 3m should be the one who buys out the homes, not their past customer who was lied to regarding product safety.
n/a n/a yeah like imagine you're the WWW or Hush Puppies guy who made that choice. did you really understand any of the possible implications of PFOS or whatever compounds were in scotchgard? no, because you're not a chemist or scientist or whatever
Ryan Lynch but they should’ve hired a chemist to check it out. They decided to use the chemical without proper research and that’s on them
@@kevinmellado7018 So you hire a chemist to check every product before you buy it to use it in your house hold? If you had kids and they died due to product that you bought when it was approved for sale, then it's on you.
@@jmd1743 This is different because they are a corporation. They can afford to pay someone to test the product.
It wasn't just that they used scotch guard though, it was how they used it and then disposed of it afterwards. Had they not dumped waste into the river it likely would have been a different situation.
Damn it! I remember spraying 3M Scotchguard on my canvas tent as a kid and breathing in the over spray. Damn you 3M to hell........
When did you use? If after 2003 you're good as they discontinued scotchguard with PFOS with PFBS w/c they say is safe.
Don’t be ridiculous. Casual exposure wasn’t and isn’t a danger.
She kinda reminds me of that Erin Brockovich lady in a way!
You go lady! 😉🤗👍🏽
Boycott these brands and join the class suit!
I joked about this 10 years ago when my friends were moving there. That foam said it all 😟
whats freaking me out right now, is my local town is built onto the side of an small industrial estate which has multiple streams running through it.
they arent drinking streams but peoples animals and even children go into them and there is a college inside this estate that the stream beside it used to be filled with oil colors like THICK amounts of oil colors and created a skin and ive noticed the foam was orange and horrible JUST like the ones of this video, it behaves identical.
it worries me because i even used to step into that river and when i was a younger lad i used to take that water for my bong when i was a little stoner back in the days.
caterpillar the company owns over %50 of the factory land/units that occupy this industrial estate so effectively some of the chemicals or procedures they have on making there products must be getting dumped. the whole thing is you cant really get info on if its illegal or even if the agencies round here know or care.
This needs to be made into a movie
Never heard of this and its killing the world. Gosh there is so much unknown destruction.
Gotta love DuPont and 3M for making PFAS and PFOA. Great American cover-up! We all have some in our blood and it never goes away!
this has always been a local issue and i’m glad it is finally being brought to light
Lies again? Harvard University
"It's a safe substance until proven unsafe" is the problem. We should classify any new substance as dangerous until proven to be safe.
thank you. it sometimes makes me think the government doesn't even want to help when they need to or have to. these companies turn over so much money in the environment that it would impact the economy if they ceased to function i think which is why the government never can do much.
boyo
In Europe the governments do do something about it. Just the way I said ^
omg, somehow i felt lucky living in 3rd world country yet having better access to clean water. God bless you guys.
I would like to know what 3rd world country that u Live🤔🤔🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
This is the American dream. Make money and let others pay the price.
...not to mention the unforeseen consequences on the environment and all other organisms besides humans...
Sandy was ready to sell out for some shoes.... lmao 😂🤦🏽♂️ cannot make that up
14:11 lady can't stop looking at the cameraman
To think, she would have settled for a few pairs of shoes and they told her to F off... jeez
Damn these are such good deep dives.
I'm from Rockford MI, USA
Class of 1990
Isn't it crazy how michigan has so many water crisis and they're right in between the worlds largest freshwater supply. As someone who lives in michigan i never drink from the faucet... just in case.
1:32 It's sad to see this sign beside a river.
3m tells Wolverine the chemical is safe, but it ain't. Love the way one businessman lies to another. America, love it or leave it, say all the conservatives!
What do businessmen have to do with conservatives
Most businessmen ARE conservatives. Need I say more?
Hadi Purwanto did even watched the video? They literally put what a wolverine spokesman declared in a interview, that 3m told them it was safe, now go back to educate yourself you illiterate punk.
See it was also the 60’s they gave us plastic to without realizing that it would be the issue it is now I just hope it’s ignorance and not known wrong doing
Bernard Scheidle yes actually
it's always michigan and their water crises
😂😂😂
crises
Uh yeah, water is exceptionally important. Why are you marginalizing this, it's a really big deal.
NO.Research about PFAS in army areas. th-cam.com/video/bg-LvzAOXFI/w-d-xo.html. In all military bases- maybe ur own area too!
What a whooshbag, YOU go drink the water, ya brainless weed.
All of Michigan lakes are destroyed by pfas :( it’s even in most of the city drinking water - but let’s not forget flint still hasn’t been helped like they should have
Even if they're drinking bottled water. They still get the contamination on them when they shower. The body will absorb it. It's better to invest in a whole home underground water filter and put a faucet filter and a showerhead filter just in case.
Mizz Wicked
*I agree on the body absorption but a very large percentage of people can’t afford a complete*
*home water filtration system.*
Most human activity , progress has always come at a cost to the environment .
Ex. Switch a bulb and indirectly you are releasing CO2 .
All human comforts including the medicine , food , clothing have come at a cost to the environment .
This is a typical case of NIMBY ( not in my back yard ) .
This problem is everywhere , we build a dam but bury fertile land there .
There will always be pros and cons at the end of the day , if pros are more then they win , much like the nuclear power , so useful yet so deadly
I find it a bit perplexing every time I hear about this sort of stuff. That the US-of-A is considered to be a great country when you have civilians walking around with guns, people can't drink tap water because it's contaminated and we’re you can go bankrupt if You go see the doctor or just want to get a higher education
Absolutely heartbreaking. They not only need to clean up their crap, care for everyone affected, but they need to restore everything they've destroyed no matter the cost.😠
Trying to clean up the underground water system though, they'll just declare bankruptcy considering the cost of just that.
It is why the developed countries buy goods from developing countries now. The most polluted cities in the world make the goods we buy and use.
I would not be able to be that composed if i lost someone i love and someone else knowingly caused that harm.
This is such a well made segment, and an interesting look into the problem of water contamination in America. Good job!
Isn't there any way they could remove the chemicals from the water?
I was ABOUT to buy their shoes this week. Yikes.....
this explains SO MUCH about Rockford, MI..... 🙄
The company wont payout the lawsuit for another 20 years; they know what they are doing, dragging it out in courts
Thank you for shining a light on this!
This is horrible... sandy’s home is beautiful. It sucks that she can’t even live there comfortably...
A lot of communities have also been destroyed up here in upstate NY because of manufacturing companies like GE dumping waste that has become toxic.
oh no - in sixties we were definitely Keds, Hush Puppy (and Desert Boots) kids and are from an important 3M town -am so sorry that we supported Wolverine - am so very sorry 🇨🇦🙏😷
I forget that ladies name who lost her husband Joel to liver cancer, may the lord bless her soul for the remainder of time on this earth and than beyond. She’s is just amazing! After all she’s been threw, she still smiles and looks forward to living another day.
LOL she called her water filter megatron... I want to really know the story behind that name!
Sounds like the foxes were given the keys to the hen house as far as self-regulation goes.
Industry owns the best real estate everywhere. Truck Driver
Look at the bright side. Everyone in that neighborhood has a solid tan within their kidneys, renal pelvis, ureters, bladder and urethras.
I wore Merrell shoes for 4 years.
Great quality!
If doesn't come directly from animals or plants, it should not be allowed to be thrown into the rivers.
... really sweage and die animals isn't what you want in your water source. Water treatment is a true wonder of the modern world
@@oxnyxws there is no treatment for many synthetic chemicals. Organic(carbon-based) material from plants and animals can be treated. Really.
Government only regulates food and medicines? 😱Oooh America, this is extremely disappointing, this is common sense regulation in Europe but since we Brexiting maybe we become more like America now.....😬
Alien at 2:05 lol
I used to wear Hush puppies shoes when I was littler as part of my school uniform :”(
The Huron river in the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti here in MI just had a PFAS scare a few months back. Everything in the river shouldn’t be eaten and they supposedly put new filters in the water processing plants. My tap water comes from the Huron river and I have no idea what is or isn’t in my water
If this is one town in michigan
My Gosh, its probably even worse on more scale in China
Long on emotion but short on facts.
If you're looking for an alternative to Chacos check out Teva!
What about everyone down the river ?
I grew up in Northern Virginia, & in the 1970s exclusively wore Hush Puppies as a Young child into the mid-1980s. Some of the side effects listed are REALLY Interesting. Especially Hyperactivity. We're so screwed! As Usual a day late & A Billion Dollars short. IT'S TOO LATE in a lot of instances like this. So Sad!
This is north of me here in Grand Rapids. Shame on Wolverine. Now we can't tube down the Rogue River.
Wolverine makes a nice boot and have been wearing Topsiders for years.
Please report on the ongoing pollution and high levels of contamination in oakalnd county/Wixom. Far greater population density, wealthy oakland county of Michigan. Residents deserve to know!
Please do a video on love canal!!
If the company was following the procedure designed by the EPA, they are not in the wrong, the EPA/ US govt is. For eg. Agent Orange was developed by Monsanto, but dropping it on Vietnam by planes was not their fault, it was the US army. 3M designed the chemical, because its useful, the SMOU (safe method of use) and disposal protocol has to be worked out by the government.
So.... Why didn't she do rainwater catchment and storage?
She not off grid so she has power to overcome some of the normal challenges encountered...
1:05 of they have lawyers, you definitely need lawyers
I hate lying money hungry corporations. I feel so bad for the victims. This is wrong.
I totally understand not wanting neighbors!
Sad, because I used to wear shoes by Hush Puppies when I was a child in the 1970’s.
(Look at Hush puppies!)
stop blaming hush puppies! It's not his fault!......Look at his innocent eyes!😢
One good thing about losing all these manufacturers,,, the pollution *Stops!*
I would like to know -- who was there first, the business or the residents? What I think of is, was the business there, in a non residential area, which they assumed would stay that way, and they assumed they could keep their contamination in a small, contained area. And, maybe, even keep it watered down to diminish it's toxicity? Knowing that it would seep down and away from any water supply. Which, they thought, might not have been needed. But, contractors came in , and, with City/Town permission, built around the business without the businesses knowledge? Also, did the business sell their property with the knowledge that they new owners would clean it up, or, contain the area by fence so that no human could access it? I would like to hear from the business. What is their point of view?
Tell city, IN is contaminated because of an old General Electric plant.
Customers should sue.
After all Simple socks are not going to protect them from absorbing fluoride from the shoes.
We are with you small Town, send info to where deposit money for lawyers
Michigander here aint knoe none of this, we litterally are SURROUNDED by FRESH water why is it we have having these issues? 🙅
and now 3M is one of the largest investor in my city. should I move out from here?
We have jet fuel leaking into our water from the old airport, anyone that lives near the old airport is at high risk of getting cancer like a lot of people from that area of town get cancer but no one does anything about it so we just live with it
The name says it all. "Hush" puppies.
OMG.. I loved Hush puppy shoes when i was a kid, how awful!
I've never heard of these shoes... besides wolverine boots.
This is a very serious topic of contamination and goes all over the world's water supply. 3M should be penalized for this.
Tanneries in India are also majorly responsible for polluting the Ganga
Never heard of the business or the shoe brands. Hush puppies sound like a sweet/chocolate.
Great journalism
Excellent content! Keep it coming!
Bottled water should be free for residents affected by the contaminated water
Nooo they pronounced Rouge wrong😂
Great video depicting what we may not know around us.
It's the Rogue River.
At least there trying to help but it still happened and that’s what’s not ok.
I used to wear hush puppies in 7 grade and now I'm in 8 grade and I'm wear clarks