MAPLEWOOD, Minn. — 3M has announced it’s phasing out a family of harmful chemicals, but they’re not going away. The “forever chemicals” — known collectively as per- and polyfluorinated substances, or ...

3M recently pushed a division that makes earplugs into bankruptcy. The hope is that this move will help it limit the costs of product liability litigation the company faces over the earplugs and their ...

This article is a collaboration between The New Yorker and ProPublica. Kris Hansen had worked as a chemist at the 3M Corporation for about a year when her boss, an affable senior scientist named Jim ...

3M's Q3 earnings beat expectations with $1.98/share, driven by margin expansion from restructuring, despite lackluster 1.5% organic revenue growth. The company repurchased $700 million in stock, ...

Sharon Lerner has been reporting on “forever chemicals” for the better part of a decade. These manmade compounds — known as PFAS for short — resist oil, water and heat, take an incredibly long time to ...

3M announced in mid-December that it’s phasing out a family of harmful chemicals, but they’re not going away. The “forever chemicals,” known collectively as per- and polyfluorinated substances or PFAS ...

There is no way to sugarcoat it: 3M (NYSE: MMM) has not been a particularly rewarding investment over the past decade, with the price currently about 15% lower than where it was 10 years ago. But the ...

3M is getting a lot of bad press about the legal liability surrounding earplugs it sold to the U.S. military. The product liability issue facing 3M is big and could end up costing the industrial giant ...