re: We need to boycott 3M, US should use antitrust laws to splinter it into pro MAGA companies

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frick 3M.

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The letter does not indicate how much or when the chemicals were released into the Tennessee River. These chemicals appear to be used as replacement versions of PFOAs and PFOS, which were used in the process to make Scotchgard and Teflon. The company stopped producing PFOA and PFOS in the early 2000s.

PFOS and PFOA are familiar chemicals to the Tennessee Valley after they were found in the West Morgan East Lawrence Drinking Water Authority water supply in 2016. 3M settled with the water authority in a federal drinking water contamination lawsuit in April for $35 million.

This is not the first time 3M has admitted to having discrepancies following state or federal regulations following the release of chemicals into the Tennessee River. 3M underreported to ADEM its discharge of chemicals into the Tennessee River from late 2012 to mid-2016.

Neither the EPA nor Alabama state regulators notified the public about these chemical releases. WHNT News 19 asked the EPA for more information and we're told the agency is working on our request

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