3M公司的争议事件

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• 否认 — DuPont

  We have not received the complaint referenced by the Attorney General’s office, however we are extremely disappointed they have taken this action we believe is without merit.

• 否认 — 3M

  3M disagrees with the allegations in this lawsuit.

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• sweeping lawsuit Tuesday in Washtenaw County Circuit Court, alleging 3M, DuPont and other PFAS manufacturers “intentionally hid” known health and environmental risks from the public and state while selling toxic but profitable “forever chemicals” to consumers and corporate customers since the 1950s.

• The suit seeks to hold 17 named companies financially responsible for all past and future costs associated with toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl contamination at dozens of sites across the state.

• The substances have been detected at levels requiring remediation at more than 70 sites across Michigan.

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• 召回 — 3M Company

  3M Company Recalls Scotch™ Thermal Laminators Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Fire Hazard

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• The CPSC announces today the following recalls conducted in cooperation with the firms listed below.

• About 53,634 units

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• According to a release from the two entities, the Bemidji City Council on Monday approved an agreement resolving its claims against 3M, which produced the chemicals.

• BEMIDJI -- After nearly five months of negotiating, the city of Bemidji and Minnesota-based company 3M have reached a settlement related to chemicals in local water systems.

• In the agreement approved by both parties, 3M is now set to contribute $12.5 million to the construction of the facility and the treatment operations.

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• 整改 — 3M

  3M said Tuesday it will invest about $1 billion over the next 20 years to accelerate its global environmental goals, boosting efficiency at the same time.

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• 3M said Tuesday it will invest about $1 billion over the next 20 years to accelerate its global environmental goals, boosting efficiency at the same time.

• The water quality improvements will include issues associate with PFAS, a family of chemicals made by 3M for use in products ranging from fabric protectors to firefighting foam. The chemicals don't break down in the environment and have polluted groundwater in Washington County and elsewhere.

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• 3M officials say ill-fitting masks at Hennepin County Medical Center were counterfeits sold to the hospital by an unauthorized distributor.

• 3M says it has now taken legal action against Nationwide to prevent the company from selling the masks.

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• In a five-page order accompanied by a lengthy summary of factual findings, US District Court Judge Loretta Preska found for 3M and granted a preliminary injunction against Performance Supply, concluding that “[Performance Supply] is not, and has never been, a licensed or authorized distributor, agent, or representative of 3M-brand N95 respirators.”

• A federal judge on Monday granted 3M a preliminary injunction against a New Jersey-based company accused of federal trademark violations and flagrantly increasing the price of highly-coveted N95 face masks.

• In an email, the company says Hennepin County Medical Center bought more than 10,000 counterfeit 3M-branded N95 masks from a Florida-based distributor called Nationwide Source.

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• The company said one case claimed to have up to five billion respirators at inflated prices, falsely affiliating themselves with 3M.

• Reuters: Industrial conglomerate 3M Co. said on Friday it sued five vendors for allegedly attempting to target US Government officials with fraudulent offers to sell billions of non-existent N95 respirators.

• 3M said the lawsuit is meant to help “combat the exploitation of consumers during the COVID-19 global pandemic.”

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• 3M claims the company, New Jersey-based Performance Supply, wasn’t authorized to distribute the masks, and had attempted to inflate the price of the masks at a more than 500% markup for New York.

• 3M called Performance Supply’s offer to New York “extreme price-gouging,” according to the lawsuit filed in federal court in Manhattan on Friday.

• Though the case reads like a fairly standard trademark and false advertising case, it highlights widespread alleged price gouging that’s popped up throughout the country since the national emergency began.

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• 3M (MMM) and Wolverine World Wide, Inc. have reached an agreement to address PFAS in the environment in Michigan's Plainfield and Algoma Townships. The agreement resolves legal claims between the two companies and pertains only to the lawsuit between Wolverine and 3M.

• Under the terms of the settlement, 3M will make a fixed financial contribution of $55 million to support Wolverine's past and ongoing efforts to address PFAS remediation under Wolverine's Consent Decree with the state of Michigan.

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• According to a recent lawsuit filed by a former U.S. Marine, 3M and its Aearo Technologies LLC subsidiary falsified test results in order to sell defective earplugs to the military for a multi-million dollar per-year contract.

• Doyle’s lawsuit alleges that both 3M and Aearo knew the earplugs were defective and deliberately falsified test results in order to acquire the multi-million dollar per-year military contract.