State says companies hid environmental and health risks of Pfas for decades even as they began phasing them out
New York sued 3M, DuPont and other companies on Thursday for causing a public nuisance by selling “forever chemicals” that they knew were toxic for use in consumer products.
The state’s attorney general, Letitia James, accused the companies of hiding the chemicals’ environmental and health risks from consumers for decades, even as they began phasing out some of the chemicals, which are known as Pfas.
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