3M announced earlier this month that it's phasing out a family of harmful chemicals, but they're not going away. The "forever chemicals," known collectively as per- and polyfluorinated substances or ...

MAPLEWOOD, Minn. — 3M has announced it’s phasing out a family of harmful chemicals, but they’re not going away. The “forever chemicals” — known collectively as per- and polyfluorinated substances, or ...

This article is a collaboration between The New Yorker and ProPublica. Kris Hansen had worked as a chemist at the 3M Corporation for about a year when her boss, an affable senior scientist named Jim ...

3M recently pushed a division that makes earplugs into bankruptcy. The hope is that this move will help it limit the costs of product liability litigation the company faces over the earplugs and their ...

Sharon Lerner has been reporting on “forever chemicals” for the better part of a decade. These manmade compounds — known as PFAS for short — resist oil, water and heat, take an incredibly long time to ...

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3M (NYSE: MMM) chief financial officer Monish Patolawala's presentation at a Morgan Stanley conference on September 13th left investors unimpressed, and the stock sold off in its aftermath. While the ...

3M's Q3 earnings beat expectations with $1.98/share, driven by margin expansion from restructuring, despite lackluster 1.5% organic revenue growth. The company repurchased $700 million in stock, ...

There is no way to sugarcoat it: 3M (NYSE: MMM) has not been a particularly rewarding investment over the past decade, with the price currently about 15% lower than where it was 10 years ago. But the ...

3M has already been engaged in PFAS cleanup efforts in connection with legal cases and environmental enforcement. It paid the state of Minnesota $850 million to settle a lawsuit over natural resource ...

3M is getting a lot of bad press about the legal liability surrounding earplugs it sold to the U.S. military. The product liability issue facing 3M is big and could end up costing the industrial giant ...