How 3M And DuPont Are Being Sued Over ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Water
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- Maine recently joined a growing list of states suing chemical manufacturers over toxic "forever chemicals," or PFAS, claiming significant harm to residents and natural resources. An estimated 64 million people across the U.S. are affected by drinking water contaminated with the chemicals. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, even tiny exposure to PFAS in drinking water could pose a serious health risk. Watch the video above on how 3M faces a bellwether trial over PFAS that could set the tone for future lawsuits.
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How 3M And DuPont Are Being Sued Over ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Water
Imagine poisoning the water in a town, you would be put in prison. Now multiple that by thousands and you have what 3M and DuPont did, yet they are only being sued in civil court. It has never been more clear that we live in a two tiered system of justice.
yep
Rich gotta rich. Poor gotta serve. Masters and slaves, baby. 💪😎✌️
Imagine selling a country Napalm and that same country now worried about the toxicity of your chemicals. 😂
There is the option of judicial dissolution, also known as the corporate death penalty. These companies would be perfect candidate.
@@Someone-cd7yi In the constitution it’s known as Corporate Citizenship.
Imagine living in a world where companies can get away with poisoning the world
We don’t have to imagine. Just look outside.
You dudes take that imagine stuff too far
@@mkhanman12345 Yeah they are in every comment section now and make no sense...
@@EikottXD yea, dudes typing imagine this when we don't have to, lol
Don't have to imagine.....
Heartbroken for the farmers. The fact they shut down immediately speaks volumes about the strength of their morals. They shouldn't have had to though.
Yeah, it says they're stupid. Their produce was probably fine.
@@gregorymalchuk272 dense as a log. They were ORDERED to shut down it wasn’t a choice.
@@hernanm5133 it was their choice though
@@gregorymalchuk272probably? Not 100% safe? 😂
@@gregorymalchuk272 maybe you should look into why PFAS and related chemicals like PFOS are so dangerous. And no, the produce itself wasn't fine. If it's in the water, it's also in the produce as that takes up the water in order to grow. How do you think these chemicals end up in our body?
So wait, let me get this straight. They shut the guys farm down because of the chemicals. But they’re giving the company two years to stop making them? Why aren’t are the companies production of these harmful chemicals not shut down immediately I’m so confused? Who’s supposed to be protecting us from all this?
The owners of the farm shut down themselves. They weren’t forced to.
The guy shut his own farm down. Legally he is probably in the clear to keep farming if he wants.
All those statements are for shareholders. They either have no relation to actual intentions or are meant to evade saying anything at all.
Yeah I don’t understand this! Why don’t they stop immediately! 😤
Why would companies protect people ? You are just peasants to them. They expect you to sht up and get in line and get back to work so the people on top can gain all the profits. Your job is crouch down on all 4s so they can prop their feet on your back
We need new antitrust lawsuits, new powers to the EPA and FDA, and laws that can get these executives arrested, and all the language needs to be ironclad. No loopholes, no "2 year targets", no exceptions for companies founded in July 1802, no nothing. These executives are despicable and a disgrace to humankind as a whole and they need to spend the rest of their lives in jail and their money needs to be given to all those who were harmed by this.
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@pinefilms3141
Don't you mean they should be?
Being sued and actually being held responsible and helping solve a problem are two different things. No matter how much money they have to pay, if they pay any, will never be enough and will likely be a small dent in their bottom line.
#3M Money > Lives
It's just another overhead cost of business factored into the price of the products from these companies. There's a "Litigations" section in the budget of any $1M+/yr corporation. Pfizer spends Billions a year in payouts and court settlements for everything from bribery to falsifying test results yet few question the trustworthiness of their products.
@Archimedus yup look at the Ford Pinto. A case study in business school went over the idea that Ford essentially calculated the legal cost of a human life. By factoring how many lawsuits they would have to payout against the cost of changing the car design (so said lawsuits would never happen) they figured (correctly) it would make them more profit to just settle any potential lawsuits (for wrongful death) than to change the deadly design flaw.
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They should pay for an entire new water supply system to those affected and at the same time forced to clean up the mess they made and any cost. Enough of this crap.
My dad's company decades ago used to work at a Dupont chemical plant as a contractor. They said the place was environmentally dirty as can be. In fact, a puddle of water mixed with some kind of liquid or something was on the ground one day and it splashed up into the eyes of one of my dad's workers. His eyes wouldn't stop tearing up for a long time, as if his eyes had something in it and it couldn't get rid of it. I'm not sure how long it took for his eyes to settle back to normal. After that incident my dad never renewed their contract for services at their plant given how appalling it was there.
I had a professor who worked there for thirty minutes before quitting because what they were doing was so appalling. We used to tease her that she didn’t work there long enough to find the fridge and put her lunch in it.
@@nicksurfs1 the place my dad contracted for was the DuPont plant in Delaware the one that you would see crossing the bridge
I had a family member tell me the story about how once, when they were picking tomatoes someone on their team died after drinking water from one of the irrigation ditches 😢😢😢 its not a joke. The water killed them in 5 days
Everyone is affected right down to the law makers, they need to put all these executive behind bar for life since they literally hurt the entire human genome
Well those executive are probably not alive anymore, as it happened decades ago
@@Blue2024_rs Great so their companies have stop making PFAS, or will stop making it in 2025! So only a few thousand more people will get cancer.
Behind bars? No, the fear needs to be instilled into these people.
@@Blue2024_rs it’s still happening. And the executives today who know of the danger just have them barely tweak it to make it legal again.
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There's literally been movies made about how much of a monster Dupont is as a company. From what i know, I'd call it one of the few true evils of our time
Unbridled capitalism where negative externalities are not accounted for.
The Devil we Know (2018, and an investigative doc) and Dark Waters (2019 drama based on the doc) are eye opening and incredibly frustrating movies.
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@pinefilms3141
Shouldn't they pay for it?
Dark water is an amazing movie about this exact situation.
I often wonder how much me and my family's health issues have been caused or worsened by pollution like this.
No no, it's clearly your fault. Just ask the big businesses like BP, who made the entire concept of a carbon footprint themselves to push blame on the regular citizen for using THEIR product. It's clown world. Look into ways to protect your water supply with filters, look into toxic foods/make your own meals as much as possible and buy local veggies that are in season, and cut as much medicine as you don't need out. Make sure your HVAC system and plumbing is running well too, especially if you're living in an older house.
Make sure to get your water tested too. Directly from your tap, not from the local water supply's BS records of their own wells or pipes going to the facility.
My health instantly recovered, as did my family. Bad water, fake foods, and things like fast fashion are literally killing all of us slowly.
Me too. How much smarter might we have been considering how iq has dropped for the first time in many years
I didn't I.Q. 's could poop... the more you know
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@@pinefilms3141DuPont agent detected
This is in every state, just not exposed to the media
PFAs contaminate over 99% of the global population. They are detectable in all of our blood.
And outside of the US too. In Belgium 3M runs a factory that poisons an entire Dutch waterway, the Westerschelde.
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I say, Wonderland is goneeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Are they paying everyone to buy it?
Dont forget that a lot of states have recommended but not _required_ PFAS limits. So they can say they meet "all legal requirements " but it's still toxic.
Also, these companies lobby to never upgrade the "recommended" limits to "required".
My heart ENTIRELY goes out to that farmer. For the companies? Sue them back into the stone age. ☠💀
I'm glad this is being talked about. The section on "what items contain PFAS chemicals" at 2:17 doesn't convey the scale of the issue. Takeout containers, cups, paper-based milk cartons, any paper/cardboard food container with a smooth waxy/plastic inside just to name a few egregious ones. PFAS chemicals are the cheapest and easiest solution. Some types of dental floss are literally made of the stuff. Plumber's tape- the stuff that kees our water system sealed tight- is made of PFAS chemicals that have the potential to leech into your water system. Even if you remove all of the plumber's tape in your house, there's still going to be some on the distribution end of the water system. Once you go down the rabbit hole of items containing PFAS chemicals, it's hard to look at everyday items the same.
Looks like you can't wait for the people who don't have the "forever chemical" to be labeled as pure as virgins. Here is the cooties game being played again as an adult. Stop fear mongering
Too little too late. It's time these too big to fail company's go down for the devastation they have caused. It's not just the company either. the lobbyists & politicians need to be held accountable too!!!
No company is too big to fail.
@@nh251 sure seems like it now days..
I can’t believe this isn’t actually getting banned and regulated but instead we are leaving it up to these companies to phase it out all while we keep an eye on the stock price.
Here is the cooties game being played again as an adult. Stop fear-mongering.
Well, we know none of these companies are advertisers on CNBC/NBC. Otherwise, they would not be doing the story.
@@NotOnlyLiveOnce I also like India news WION, they are sometimes victims to American propaganda just because they source a small amount of their news from propaganda factories but they also will call out the propaganda like NYT, they visited the house to show the US didn't drone strike a terrorist like they said, they called out the Pfizer cartel when explaining why India turned down the vaccine.
@@NotOnlyLiveOnce Fox is a long-time proponent of free capitalism and the abolition of any and all market regulations, and virtually never calls out corporations for this type of behavior because of it.
Dupont still hasnt paid for Bhopal victims. What a shame!
No more sueing, no more slaps on the wrist. Arrest higher-ups, put the fear of consequences back into the hearts of the wealthiest people
YES
as if prison will teach them anything. on the rare occasions an oligarch goes to prison, they get luxury treatment. sending them to what amounts to an inforced vacation will accomplish nothing. there's only one permanent solution.
They can buy their way out of jail.
No amount of money will make up for these chemicals.
Less regulation, abolishing the EPA, absolute free markets... they all have consequences.
That is exactly how China grew big.
@@freddyfriend5462 it’s also exactly why there’s a live leak section dedicated to Chinese workers
EPA did nothing, clearly if you look EPA was a money generator. Numerous chemicals known to be deadly to known damage to biologicals.
EPA? DuPont manufactured Napalm! WTH you talking about!
@@ok.ok.5735 You need to learn to read. WTH you talking about?
We can't trust 'the market' to protect the public health and safety because putting profits before consequences to the environment is ALWAYS a BAD bargain. If the GQP has its' way all of our regulatory agencies would be abolished to allow corporations free reign to contaminate the environment with impunity. We can do better protecting the public interest.
The market gave us wonders like fluorinated fire retardants that keep us from burning alive, and all kinds of of surfactants and coatings that massively improve our quality of life.
Solomon’s law!
@@gregorymalchuk272 it also gave us pfas in our drinking water.
There should be a ‘free’ market, but it should be regulated. Heavily if you’re a big phara or chem company.
@@gregorymalchuk272 No dude, that came about because of people that had been educated in sciences like chemistry.
@@Squintis A regulated market isn't a free market. Free market refers to Randian style, laissez faire capitalism. Capitalism with no regulations or limitations.
I first heard of Pfas in 2018, Mark Ruffalo starred in a movie; Dark Waters in 2019 about PFas. Very enlightening. Too bad it's taken this long for this Public Announcement to become more mainstream. Better late than never
I'm glad to know someone else has seen that movie
The US Army also poisoned the water of the entire island of Oahu with military chemical waste in WW2. Its having major ramifications currently. This is why we need better enforcement of the plethora of environmental regulations already in place but are not being enforced
We knew this for decades and now just suing?
This is what little to no regulations and oversight gets you. We're all screwed and for what? The almight dollar. Someone else's dollar. Not yours.
I see one of the issues being that, we are no longer using “dollars”. The dollar was given a precise definition by Congress in the Coinage Act of 1787. That being, that the dollar is 371.25 grains of Silver, the amount of silver contained in the old Silver Dollars.
We used to be on a ‘Gold Standard’. Dollars were redeemable at the Bank for Gold and Silver Coinage. Government Bonds were redeemable in Gold if you wanted. That was removed. How? By Executive Orders and nothing else. Nothing about that removal went through Congress, there no voting, no democracy involved in the removal of the Gold Standard.
Nowadays, a Dollar is just a piece of paper(linen). “Paper money alway returns to it’s true intrinsic value.” -Voltaire
What is the value of paper money? Zero
It is my belief that one day the people of this country will finally wake up to the fact that they have been robbed, of their money and their monetary system. What will it take for that day to arrive? I don’t know. But “we”(ha!) are at $32 Trillion in National Debt that only ever goes UP, and counting. Will it take 100 Trillion? A Quadrillion? A Quintillion? I don’t know…
To keep the Germany Weimar Deutschmark going, it took a Hitler in charge. And we all know how that ended.
@@jimmyrichards5595 no, the problem is we choose profit over people.
@@Squintis Well, even though you didn’t address what I was talking about, which is: Exactly and Precisely how was the Gold Standard removed?
You didn’t try and claim that I was lying or just making stuff up that isn’t true.
As to putting profits over people. I love people. I cannot go around making nothing but losses. I have to make a profit somewhere, somehow. If all I ever do is create losses rather than a profit, other people want nothing to do with me! Does that mean that I put profit over people? No. I don’t go around killing or hurting people so that I can make a profit.
@@jimmyrichards5595 I didn’t claim anything? But since you said something, sure, it is BS.
Why? Because even though it’s not backed by gold, it’s backed by something much more valuable; oil, guns, and manpower. In inside the country it’s backed by stocks, goods, companies, and again manpower.
I can go on to explain how even gold was basically just a commodity used to track value and most people, except with jewelry and decorative cases, had no use for gold. It was just a shiny precious metal that was hard to come by so it was used for trade. This was true even in the 60s.
But waaaay before anyone ever even thought to use anything as a currency, before even the British empire, and still just bartered, they used a personal credit system.
So all in all money/currency is just a way to track value. And the value is in your country, not one specific metal. That’s why it’s called legal tender now.
If I gave you all the gold in the world but I had all the food in the world, I could probably get you to give me all that gold after a while and still have most of the food for myself.
@@Squintis Removal of the Gold Standard was done without the approval of the American People. There was no voting on that issue, and it did not go through Congress.
Answer it: It was removed with Executive Orders. First Executive Order #6102 by President FDR, which outlawed individual Americans to own plain Gold bullion. Then another Executive Order by President Nixon on August 15, 1971, wherein, the Gold was removed as an option to be redeemed in on an international basis: “I hereby order Secretary Connelly to temporarily stop the convertibility of the dollar into gold.”
When it comes to this issue, Democrat or Republican…. does not matter! Both parties were/are in on this. This is not our Government, because it does not answer to us since it stripped us of our real actual money. It answers to the Federal Reserve System now.
Now, since that removal:
1) The National Debt has ballooned to $32 Trillion in currency units
2) Americans were outlawed by their own government from owning a completely inert, inanimate object, that just sits there(until 1975).
3) Strong Opinion: America went from being a Republic, to being an Empire
There needs to be a standard in money/government, by law. There is no law on the books that says exactly how our currency is back by ‘a bunch of things like guns, stocks, etc.’
The real money standard, which the Government ousted with no authority to do so, should be rightfully returned. Perhaps are ignorant of the fact that without the Gold Standard in place, our Government now just prints up dollars out of thin air, which debases, debauches, and devalues the currency. What would happen to me if I printed up money in order to pay my bills or bail out my Too Big to Fail buddies?
If you just don’t care that the Government took away our Gold Standard so that they could steal from us by printing up dollars out of thin air. Which steals our purchasing power. No one has a monopoly on the creation and production of Gold. What about the so-called “Dollar”? Can you say the same about it? With the removal of the gold backing, now the Federal Reserve has a monopoly on the creation and production of the dollar. With it being the “World’s Reserve Currency’, it’s the ultimate fascism.
To keep the Ultimate in fascism going as long as possible with the Third Reich German Weimar Deutschmark, it took an Adolf Hitler in charge. Boy am I thankful no one suffered there! /s
When I was very young, Gold made a pretty big value move. It went from $35/oz to $42/oz. It’s now at around $2,000/oz. When will people wake the hell up? $6,000/oz? $10,000/oz? $$20,000/oz? Of course, I don’t know. I just know that I woke the hell up to what’s going on!!
DuPonte, 3M and Suncor all have chemical plants in Sarnia, Ontario, which is only about 40km away from the Bluewater Water Treatment Plant in Grand Bend, Ontario, so we can most likely assume that Ontarians should most likely consider a class action lawsuit against the same companies, just taking a wild stab at assuming they dump into the Great Lakes as well.
I lived in Waterloo ontario, and human sludge was sprayed on ALL the farmers fields, including mennonite farms. Who wants to bet this never gets reported in canada.
@@mikearchibald744 Human feces are not spread on fields in Waterloo or anywhere else in this province, that would be animal feces, I know cause I live on a farm....crackhead! lol
@@mikearchibald744 sludge? Could have been manure.
@@Squintis Well, technically it WAS manure, humanure they call it, I call it sludge because its full of all kinds of unmentionables. But no, this was not even contentious, they TOLD people it was human sludge being sold to farmland.
There was ONE woman with the guts to fight back, she quit after a few too many 'visits' at night from farmers telling her to shut up. Thats how much business, in this case just farmers, don't like activists.
And this was a decade or more ago and we weren't even THINKING of 'forever chemicals' which even today hardly anybody knows squat about. Eat up! While you can.
@@mikearchibald744 that is pretty gross. I wonder why the farmers didn’t side with the lady? They wanted their farms to smell and look like poo?
Pfas are scary and I hope the chemical companies lose. The corporations won't do what's right. Toxic chemicals should have been made illegal a long time ago. Another example of how the rich and powerful run the show.
Of course. Rich gotta rich. Poor gotta serve. Masters and slaves, as always. 💪😎✌️
They are they chemicals in your clothing and upholstery that keep you from turning into a human torch if a spark lands on you. Show a little appreciation.
So you are going to quit using your cell phone and computer? There are toxic chemicals such as arsenic used in them.
They won’t lose. This has been an ongoing problem. You never seen the movie dark waters? They will just pay people off and keep doing the same thing.
@@jasonkleckner4510 I’ll make sure not to eat my cellphone..
Wait till everyone realizes many farms are probably affected the same way that are never tested. And that food goes to all the restaurants many people eat. Best of luck to us all...
If companies can vote and have rights then they should be reprimanded beyond fines, how about a mandatory recall on all current products 3M produce to the general public until they can prove their new manufacturing uses no PFAS chemicals, go after the board of directors and management (CEO CFO) in the past 30 yrs and make an example out of them. They knowingly knew how it affected the human body but stayed quite and promoted their "safe" products, there's countless people suffering from health effects, and that's just in the US.
All employees involved should be liable for jail time like anyone else would. That would be the motivation to leave when they know what everyone will eventually know anyway. Longest sentences for the top though.
Roy Ryan. You should google how many products on this planet have PFAS in them. This is not only a 3m problem 1000s of companies used these chemicals during manufacturing and I'm sure in 1940 they didn't really know the consequences of using these products...This is the media once again targeting specific companies and people just as they do with politics. At the rate this world is going we will sue ourselves all out of work and available products. Might just as well go back to living in caves
@@Freshbott2 all employees and shareholders, every investor buying their shares is part of this crime
@@osamaal-humaimidi1481 Also, take the money they've given to their families, take the mansions they've bought, take the jets they own. If they profited from PFAS they shouldn't have it.
This is what happens when gov't get out of the way and stops over regulating corporations.
I can’t imagine being so greedy you’d be ok with poisoning people, poisoning the water supply with chemicals known to last “forever”, and just being ok with that for a quick buck, despite it even being able to get back to you.
I’m a chemist and this stuff is one of those things we wished we never invented. Hopefully one day we can fix this problem and transition away from it.
There are no better replacement without rolling back mankind by hundreds of years in multiple sectors.
The sad thing is there really was no need to use these substances in the first place. The only application that ever really made sense was AFFF (fire fighting foam) because nothing else could ever match it's ability to suffocate a fire. All of the other applications were to improve performance of existing products that were working alright to begin with. An example of this would be fast food wrappers...I don't recall anyone complaining that waxed paper didn't work, but someone at DuPont sure managed to convince the food industry they "needed" better food wrappers.
Good job Heisenberg
@@xsnipersgox then maybe we _should._
If that’s in the ground imagine what we have consumed
Imagine all the people who haven't burned alive because of fluorinated fire retardants.
I keep on saying the mental health problems in our country are from chemicals in our water and food and everything else is just a distraction.
Not only in the us, we have also the same problem, here in Antwerp, Belgium! Also a 3M plant!
Please do more corporate greed stories
And even worse politicians greed
@@kenneth9874 Same thing
@@DDd-gm8uz nope, not even close, dealing with a corporation is voluntary
@@kenneth9874 Politicians serve the interests of the owning class. It's the same thing.
@@DDd-gm8uz no, what they steal is involuntary
Kind of ironic/sad that the answer to polluted water is cases of single-use plastic water bottles full of water.
They dont care as long as they make their money. Doesn't even matter if they poison their grandchildren as long as the people at the top can get another Ferrari smh
There is also another problem. Once you sue those companies they will move all this and the jobs to China or any other country without restrictions and continue polluting.
Yes and that’s awful by at least it’s put to light that it was bad enough to ban. Then it’s up to the other countries to accept their business or not.
Can’t wait to see the documentary series about this in 5 years, extremely sad that we continue to come up with new messed up chemicals in food/kitchen items
There already is. It's called dark waters
In China they would have executed the company executives like what happened with the contaminated baby formula. This is a total nightmare given the extent of the global contamination of PFAS chemicals. It would cost trillions of dollars to clean up everything globally of just this one type of pollution.
Criminal justice in the America and the rest of the world is two tiered. One for the rich and powerful and another for the ordinary folks
Sued? I think most people agree something much worse should be done to those who've been knowingly proliferating life-ruining toxic waste into their communities for decades.
PFAS AND PFOS is in every states water supply, every chicken, beef, eggs, vegetables, organic and non-organic.
My gosh! If in a place like Maine, where else?!!!!
bro it's all over the world now.
these companies have been secretly dumping PFAS into our oceans and didn't give a damn.
The damage has already been done. The only take away is that we prevent things like this from getting off the ground in the future.
These companies are long gone and they’ve already made their money and they left the land and water they touched unusable forever. Don’t forget all the long term health effects.
Huge respect for the farmers who shut down immediately. If only large corporations acted the same! By the way, I highly recommend the movie Dark Waters which concerns the same topic.
Where is the EPA on this? If in the soil, where is the superfund designation of the land?
They were paid off of course
LOLOLOL, Dupont is literally the inventor of Teflon.
So use stainless steel with a little oil rub
@@Squintis i wont tell you everything, but basically stainless steel in food is also bad. please instead use cast iron, glass or titanium. aluminum is OK if it is properly anodized.
My city has chosen not to test for pfas because they think “why?”
They tried to say we have no contamination here, even though pfas has been found on top of Everest.
American companies realise this cost of doing business expenses is much less and they know they will get away with it in civil courts. The law system in the country encourages such behaviours
1. The damage is already done and is irreversible. No amount of lawsuits can fix that. It cannot be undone. The chemicals cannot be removed or neutralized. This is not only about the farmers or livestock raisers, that one high school, or isolated illnesses. This is about you and me across the country and perhaps the world, the ecosystems, and the earth.
2. Dow, "...[we are] not alleged to have caused any environmental contamination." In other words, we haven't been caught yet.
They can be removed it's just incredibly expensive so at the ecosystem level we wouldn't for a long long time. For your own safety you can use a reverse osmosis filter (look up specifics. One had a 60% rejection rate and another has close to 99%). I believe they came out with another system that's actually better than RO as well.
To many plastics. Plastics are showing up in fish , humans , cattle, water everywhere.
Does that means we should not drink the tap water when visiting Bangor, Maine? My hats off the young farmer to be a crusader in "Defend our Health". Best wishes for him and the none profit.
It's not just Maine, it's the entire west coast and mid west states and part of the north east states.. yes its that bad and the greedy government knew of this toxins for decades and never did anything about it but looked the other way. I'm glad that now this is getting attention and hopefully we can save the little bit of states that don't have that much contamination of pfas .
Imagine being a government and trying to convince people you have integrity and are there for them when the corporations who pull the strings are openly hurting the people.
I feel bad for all the vets who had hearing damage :(
I drink beer instead of tap water to avoid health problems.
when i was in middle school there was a label above the fountain that said to run the tap for 1min before drinking because we had lead pipes. so messed up.
we already knew that DuPont has been manufacturing PFAS's since at least the 40s and has know how dangerous they are since then, but dont worry 3m "losing" money is the real issue here
5:13 Vice just did a documentary on a farm in Michigan with the exact same story. Soil and water samples should be taken across the US and these companies should pay for the level of destruction they've caused. The health problems they inflicted on so many unaware people is beyond disgusting.
How big business and pharma act and are allowed to get away with are like something out of a dystopian future movie 😅
We are so concerned we will stop in a few years.
Correct, only after they've added another 300 million metric tons to the environment first. Clearly they are so very sorry.
It seems amazing and rare for a story like this to even get out on such a large network, but I'm glad that it is
It's a fact they knew for decades and covered it up.
Why is this a future plan? Shut it down right now! Why is the stock price dictating our health?
the superintendent looks like he just got out of the joint
lol
As a people we NEED to come together because we can accomplish anything TOGETHER and fight these problems
What are the best in home water filters that remove pfas chemicals in drinking water?
Good luck. It’s why they’re pretty bad for us. I think you need a 3 tiered system at least. They’re molecules, it’s very hard to filter out.
And we wonder why everyone gets cancer. Imagine all the chemicals we come into contact with everyday that we don’t even know if they cause cancer
Besides only getting sued, ownership/management should be forced to change.
And yet Dupont and 3M are still in business...
Dystopian ass world
"now that we've poisoned the ever living fugg out of everything, we'll quit making PFAS"- 3M
Yo it's Dr. Scott Gottlieb! I miss seeing him during all the COVID updates/briefings
They'll pay a nominal fine , admit no wrongdoing and keep doing exactly what they are doing now
It needs to stop manufacturing chemicals that are highly toxic or can harm in the future
Profits over humanity
How about stop production now wtf
Gotta do the expensive soil tests like Mr.Lahey said!
how? all your rivers and lakes there are filled with waste from factories or some processing plants
Thank you to those farmers for doing the right thing. A lot of people put money before everything else.
The water fountains in my K-12 school district didn't even work most of the time and you were also faced with the problem of whether or not the fountain was sanitary or not - you always had them knuckleheads that would think it's funny to spit in the fountain. SMH
This is why I have a 3 stage home water filter that cleans all tap used in our house.
Check if your filters actually covers PFAS tho. I heard that not many filters work on these
I don't understand how DuPont can say that they've never manufactured these forever chemicals. I thought they created these chemicals. What am I missing?
Dupont spun off a company called Chemours that had all of their legacy fluorinated products in 2015. It's like a mobster selling off their cocaine trafficking business and pretending they've been law-abiding their whole life. It's the typical doublespeak gaslighting of the Corporatocracy that runs this rapidly deteriorating, formerly 1st world country we call the USA.
From my research on this, being from Parkersburg where the Washington Works plant is, DuPont purchased the C8 from 3M, with specific instructions to incinerate that garbage out of existence after use, and instead they dumped it in the river. Proper disposal would have cost 1 Million annually on a 1 Billion portfolio. It was apparently cheaper and easier to just wait till dark and dump it. If you have ever seen a little stream that foams where it goes over rocks or something, thick bubbly crap like beer suds, thats the C8 from my understanding.
58 seconds, I think thats the fastest like I ever got
@@assymcgee2835 Thank you. This offers an interesting insight into the decision-making mind of DuPont. Since they did not create the technology, they were not as motivated to use it responsibly. But relatively, 3M had a healthy degree of terror about it
@@travishawkins1493 glad I could share some of the mostly pointless research.
Of course the OIL company denies putting the public at risk!!🙄
farmer: they need to step up to the plate and pay for the impact to the world
chemical manufacturer: LOL no, you have to take it from my cold dead body first.
This is happening in Michigan right now. 3M & Dupont should be held accountable for their chemicals.
All politicians should enact changes to safeguard the American people from contaminated water.
The Midas touch. Nominally useful chemicals that contaminate everything they touch.
How bout make sure those executives in charge of these companies drink their water if it’s so safe. See how fast they’ll change their behaviors.
I've been exposed to those chemicals in the two places that I've lived. Who pays me for having to drink it?
2:10 PFOS used in non-stick cookware, waterproof fabrics, food packaging, cosmetics, firefighting foams
We don’t manufacture PFAS chemicals. We just buy and use more than any other company.
3M and Dupont calling the lobbyists and funding testing to show that the PFAS levels are perfectly acceptable. When you're losing the only way to win is to change the rules of the game.
This is a crime against humanity and they still give these murderous companies extra time to stop production. What the hell are we talking about here? They have to stop immediately and remedy.
Saying it and proving it are two major differences.
"This is where the water comes from the well"
*Points to the fire sprinkler system
😂😂😂 3m ad before the video
Washington/Oregon has traditionally had clean water but recently letters have been sent out about how PFA's are in the drinking water and that it's advised to not drink tap water. This epidemic is poping up all over the US.
Not just WV? Woah!
Whatever you do, don’t eat the meat or vegetables and under any circumstance NEVER drink the milk or water.