Local officials want to reassure residents about their drinking water, even amid questions about health risks and who will pay to clean up the contamination.
This fall, the towns and rural farmsteads along the Mississippi River received alarming news about their drinking water. Chemicals from a large 3M factory north of Cordova, Illinois found a way into the river and their wells.
The facility employs about 500 people and makes the adhesives used in Post-It notes, Scotch tape and other popular products. It also produces a family of chemicals called PFAS, otherwise known as “forever chemicals,” whose threat to human health has prompted increasing concern among federal and state environmental agencies...
The facility employs about 500 people and makes the adhesives used in Post-It notes, Scotch tape and other popular products. It also produces a family of chemicals called PFAS, otherwise known as “forever chemicals,” whose threat to human health has prompted increasing concern among federal and state environmental agencies...
Ken Notes: Just a thought, 3M has some of the brightest minds in the world regarding filtration and water treatment. Why not ask them for solutions and implementation instead of a prolonged lawsuit. I`d like to see a new environmental policy directive - If you break it you must fix it!
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