3M Company has been voluntarily cooperating with ongoing reviews by local, state, national (primarily the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency), and international agencies of possible environmental and health effects of various perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), including perfluorooctanoate (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS)…
3M Company entered into a voluntary remedial action agreement with the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) to address the presence of PFCs in the soil at the Company’s manufacturing facility in Decatur, Ala.
For about 20 years, the Company incorporated…
3M Company continues to face a lawsuit regarding PFC contamination filed in the Hennepin County District Court.
On Dec. 30, 2010, the State of Minnesota, by its Attorney General Lori Swanson, acting in its capacity as trustee of the natural resources…
3M Company, as of June 30, 2011, had recorded liabilities of US$30 million for estimated “environmental remediation costs based upon an evaluation of currently available facts with respect to each individual site and also recorded related insurance receivables of US$15…
3M Company continues to face a PFC contamination case, which was filed in the Circuit Court of Lawrence County, Ala.
In March 2011, several residents of Lawrence County filed a lawsuit in the Circuit Court of Lawrence County seeking unspecified compensatory…
3M Company and more than 250 other companies, since June 2009, are facing a third-party complaint seeking contribution towards the cost of cleaning up a 17-mile stretch of the Passaic River in New Jersey.
After commencing an enforcement action in 1990,…
3M Company continues to work with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) under the terms of the previously disclosed May 2007 Settlement Agreement and Consent Order to address the presence of perfluorinated compounds in the soil and groundwater at former…
3M Company and more than 250 other companies, since June 2009, the Company, have been facing a third-party complaint seeking contribution towards the cost of cleaning up a 17-mile stretch of the Passaic River in New Jersey.
After commencing an enforcement…
3M Company, in 2010, invested about US$12 million in capital projects to protect the environment.
This amount excludes expenditures for remediation actions relating to existing matters caused by past operations that do not contribute to current or future revenues, which are…
3M Company’s environmental remediation liabilities were US$24 million at Dec. 31, 2010, compared with US$31 million at Dec. 31, 2009.
Environmental remediation insurance receivables were US$15 million at Dec. 31, 2010 and Dec. 31, 2009. Other environmental liabilities were US$90 million…