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3M Knew About the Dangers of PFOA and PFOS Decades Ago, Internal Documents Show

  • August 08, 2018

The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is complicit in hiding documents showing that perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) and its cousin, perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), are more dangerous than anyone thought. A lawsuit filed by the state of Minnesota against 3M, the company that first developed and sold PFOS and PFOA, shows that the dangers presented by these industrial chemicals have been known for decades, The Intercept reports. The litigation began eight years ago when...