Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a groundbreaking new lawsuit against the largest manufacturers of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”) chemical products, 3M and DuPont, for misrepresentations and key omissions they made in advertising the safety of brand names such as Teflon, Stainmaster, and Scotchgard.
PFAS are known as “forever chemicals” because they are persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic.
Exposure in humans may be associated with diseases such as cancer and thyroid disease, and PFAS contamination accumulates in animals, plants, drinking water, and human blood over time.
For decades, 3M and DuPont knew about the dangers of these chemicals but continued to market their beneficial use in ordinary household products.
According to the filing, “Defendants marketed products containing harmful PFAS chemicals for over 70 years and were aware of the harmful effects of PFAS chemicals for over 50 years. Despite this knowledge, Defendants continued to market PFAS products and chemicals in Texas and elsewhere as safe for consumer use, misrepresent their environmental and biological risks, and conceal risks of harm from the public.”
“These companies knew for decades that PFAS chemicals could cause serious harm to human health yet continued to advertise them as safe for household use around families and children,” said Attorney General Paxton. “Texas is taking action to penalize these companies and hold them accountable for deceiving Texans into buying consumer products without vital information.”
Attorney General Paxton has been at the forefront of holding companies responsible for exposing people to dangerous “forever chemicals.” Texas previously sued the manufacturers of a product containing PFAS called Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF) for its harmful effect on Texas lands and waters. Today’s lawsuit marks a new stage in PFAS litigation.
The Lanier Law Firm and Kelley Dry & Warren LLP are serving as outside counsel.
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Thanks for sharing this valuable information. Once again, Paxton is blazing the trail. 🙂
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They’ve got poison in almost everything we touch, and they know it. It’s deliberate to cause infertility and population “control.” And make them money because people get sick, and they harvest the crop of sick people. You really have to work to stay away from this stuff, think about it, make big changes in what you allow in, and many don’t like to have to think about it at all because it’s inconvenient. But now, it is coming out all over the place. I think the worst of it is that the nation will have to face the fact that these decades of poisoning us has been very, very deliberate. And the shock, the anger and the grief will be horrible.
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All about $$$ & control.
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Yup, we’ve got our very own government operated cartel. But it’s going bye bye.
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Adios Cartels
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