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How 3M And DuPont Are Being Sued Over ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Water 

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@rockymtndrone
@rockymtndrone Год назад
Imagine poisoning the water in a town, you would be put in prison. Now multiple that by thousands and you have what 3M and DuPont did, yet they are only being sued in civil court. It has never been more clear that we live in a two tiered system of justice.
@HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle
yep
@Novastar.SaberCombat
@Novastar.SaberCombat Год назад
Rich gotta rich. Poor gotta serve. Masters and slaves, baby. 💪😎✌️
@ok.ok.5735
@ok.ok.5735 Год назад
Imagine selling a country Napalm and that same country now worried about the toxicity of your chemicals. 😂
@Someone-cd7yi
@Someone-cd7yi Год назад
There is the option of judicial dissolution, also known as the corporate death penalty. These companies would be perfect candidate.
@ok.ok.5735
@ok.ok.5735 Год назад
@@Someone-cd7yi In the constitution it’s known as Corporate Citizenship.
@MRBMN-zp4cd
@MRBMN-zp4cd Год назад
Imagine living in a world where companies can get away with poisoning the world
@JEEDUHCHRI
@JEEDUHCHRI Год назад
We don’t have to imagine. Just look outside.
@mkhanman12345
@mkhanman12345 Год назад
You dudes take that imagine stuff too far
@EikottXD
@EikottXD Год назад
@@mkhanman12345 Yeah they are in every comment section now and make no sense...
@mkhanman12345
@mkhanman12345 Год назад
@@EikottXD yea, dudes typing imagine this when we don't have to, lol
@dannygreen5477
@dannygreen5477 Год назад
Don't have to imagine.....
@vacafuega
@vacafuega Год назад
Heartbroken for the farmers. The fact they shut down immediately speaks volumes about the strength of their morals. They shouldn't have had to though.
@gregorymalchuk272
@gregorymalchuk272 Год назад
Yeah, it says they're stupid. Their produce was probably fine.
@hernanm5133
@hernanm5133 Год назад
@@gregorymalchuk272 dense as a log. They were ORDERED to shut down it wasn’t a choice.
@Johnny24rs
@Johnny24rs Год назад
​@@hernanm5133 it was their choice though
@Vincent-v1s5n
@Vincent-v1s5n Год назад
​@@gregorymalchuk272probably? Not 100% safe? 😂
@Hans-gb4mv
@Hans-gb4mv Год назад
@@gregorymalchuk272 maybe you should look into why PFAS and related chemicals like PFOS are so dangerous. And no, the produce itself wasn't fine. If it's in the water, it's also in the produce as that takes up the water in order to grow. How do you think these chemicals end up in our body?
@Commonsenseisnotcommon8
@Commonsenseisnotcommon8 Год назад
So wait, let me get this straight. They shut the guys farm down because of the chemicals. But they’re giving the company two years to stop making them? Why aren’t are the companies production of these harmful chemicals not shut down immediately I’m so confused? Who’s supposed to be protecting us from all this?
@isleofgreg
@isleofgreg Год назад
The owners of the farm shut down themselves. They weren’t forced to.
@Anon-te6uq
@Anon-te6uq Год назад
The guy shut his own farm down. Legally he is probably in the clear to keep farming if he wants.
@Freshbott2
@Freshbott2 Год назад
All those statements are for shareholders. They either have no relation to actual intentions or are meant to evade saying anything at all.
@MiddleAgedMillennial
@MiddleAgedMillennial Год назад
Yeah I don’t understand this! Why don’t they stop immediately! 😤
@auroramothergoddess
@auroramothergoddess Год назад
Why would companies protect people ? You are just peasants to them. They expect you to sht up and get in line and get back to work so the people on top can gain all the profits. Your job is crouch down on all 4s so they can prop their feet on your back
@JBW808
@JBW808 Год назад
Being sued and actually being held responsible and helping solve a problem are two different things. No matter how much money they have to pay, if they pay any, will never be enough and will likely be a small dent in their bottom line.
@archimedus1971
@archimedus1971 Год назад
#3M Money > Lives
@CanadianMason85
@CanadianMason85 Год назад
It's just another overhead cost of business factored into the price of the products from these companies. There's a "Litigations" section in the budget of any $1M+/yr corporation. Pfizer spends Billions a year in payouts and court settlements for everything from bribery to falsifying test results yet few question the trustworthiness of their products.
@CanadianMason85
@CanadianMason85 Год назад
​@Archimedus yup look at the Ford Pinto. A case study in business school went over the idea that Ford essentially calculated the legal cost of a human life. By factoring how many lawsuits they would have to payout against the cost of changing the car design (so said lawsuits would never happen) they figured (correctly) it would make them more profit to just settle any potential lawsuits (for wrongful death) than to change the deadly design flaw.
@pinefilms3141
@pinefilms3141 Год назад
‼get a COUNTERTOP WATER DISTILLER (it'll change your life for ~$150)
@petebusch9069
@petebusch9069 Год назад
They should pay for an entire new water supply system to those affected and at the same time forced to clean up the mess they made and any cost. Enough of this crap.
@Damariobros
@Damariobros Год назад
We need new antitrust lawsuits, new powers to the EPA and FDA, and laws that can get these executives arrested, and all the language needs to be ironclad. No loopholes, no "2 year targets", no exceptions for companies founded in July 1802, no nothing. These executives are despicable and a disgrace to humankind as a whole and they need to spend the rest of their lives in jail and their money needs to be given to all those who were harmed by this.
@pinefilms3141
@pinefilms3141 Год назад
‼get a COUNTERTOP WATER DISTILLER (it'll change your life for ~$150)
@Eduardo_Espinoza
@Eduardo_Espinoza Год назад
@pinefilms3141 Don't you mean they should be?
@danb308
@danb308 Год назад
My dad's company decades ago used to work at a Dupont chemical plant as a contractor. They said the place was environmentally dirty as can be. In fact, a puddle of water mixed with some kind of liquid or something was on the ground one day and it splashed up into the eyes of one of my dad's workers. His eyes wouldn't stop tearing up for a long time, as if his eyes had something in it and it couldn't get rid of it. I'm not sure how long it took for his eyes to settle back to normal. After that incident my dad never renewed their contract for services at their plant given how appalling it was there.
@nicksurfs1
@nicksurfs1 Год назад
I had a professor who worked there for thirty minutes before quitting because what they were doing was so appalling. We used to tease her that she didn’t work there long enough to find the fridge and put her lunch in it.
@danb308
@danb308 Год назад
@@nicksurfs1 the place my dad contracted for was the DuPont plant in Delaware the one that you would see crossing the bridge
@kamilareeder1493
@kamilareeder1493 Год назад
I had a family member tell me the story about how once, when they were picking tomatoes someone on their team died after drinking water from one of the irrigation ditches 😢😢😢 its not a joke. The water killed them in 5 days
@bikergrandma2316
@bikergrandma2316 Год назад
This is in every state, just not exposed to the media
@stevenjohnson891
@stevenjohnson891 Год назад
PFAs contaminate over 99% of the global population. They are detectable in all of our blood.
@SanderSA-ny3lh
@SanderSA-ny3lh Год назад
And outside of the US too. In Belgium 3M runs a factory that poisons an entire Dutch waterway, the Westerschelde.
@pinefilms3141
@pinefilms3141 Год назад
‼get a COUNTERTOP WATER DISTILLER (it'll change your life for ~$150)
@faraon2012
@faraon2012 Год назад
I say, Wonderland is goneeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
@kitwong2034
@kitwong2034 6 месяцев назад
Are they paying everyone to buy it?
@rogerlau4140
@rogerlau4140 Год назад
Everyone is affected right down to the law makers, they need to put all these executive behind bar for life since they literally hurt the entire human genome
@Johnny24rs
@Johnny24rs Год назад
Well those executive are probably not alive anymore, as it happened decades ago
@DegenerateToo
@DegenerateToo Год назад
@@Johnny24rs Great so their companies have stop making PFAS, or will stop making it in 2025! So only a few thousand more people will get cancer. Behind bars? No, the fear needs to be instilled into these people.
@Squintis
@Squintis Год назад
@@Johnny24rs it’s still happening. And the executives today who know of the danger just have them barely tweak it to make it legal again.
@pinefilms3141
@pinefilms3141 Год назад
‼get a COUNTERTOP WATER DISTILLER (it'll change your life for ~$150)
@watsonwrote
@watsonwrote Год назад
I often wonder how much me and my family's health issues have been caused or worsened by pollution like this.
@BillionairesArentYourFriends
No no, it's clearly your fault. Just ask the big businesses like BP, who made the entire concept of a carbon footprint themselves to push blame on the regular citizen for using THEIR product. It's clown world. Look into ways to protect your water supply with filters, look into toxic foods/make your own meals as much as possible and buy local veggies that are in season, and cut as much medicine as you don't need out. Make sure your HVAC system and plumbing is running well too, especially if you're living in an older house. Make sure to get your water tested too. Directly from your tap, not from the local water supply's BS records of their own wells or pipes going to the facility. My health instantly recovered, as did my family. Bad water, fake foods, and things like fast fashion are literally killing all of us slowly.
@jonathanz.9675
@jonathanz.9675 Год назад
Me too. How much smarter might we have been considering how iq has dropped for the first time in many years
@markkanetaker
@markkanetaker Год назад
I didn't I.Q. 's could poop... the more you know
@pinefilms3141
@pinefilms3141 Год назад
‼get a COUNTERTOP WATER DISTILLER (it'll change your life for ~$150)
@Payote88
@Payote88 Год назад
@@pinefilms3141DuPont agent detected
@pierrex3226
@pierrex3226 Год назад
There's literally been movies made about how much of a monster Dupont is as a company. From what i know, I'd call it one of the few true evils of our time
@hirenpatel6118
@hirenpatel6118 Год назад
Unbridled capitalism where negative externalities are not accounted for.
@davidl7799
@davidl7799 Год назад
The Devil we Know (2018, and an investigative doc) and Dark Waters (2019 drama based on the doc) are eye opening and incredibly frustrating movies.
@pinefilms3141
@pinefilms3141 Год назад
‼get a COUNTERTOP WATER DISTILLER (it'll change your life for ~$150)
@Eduardo_Espinoza
@Eduardo_Espinoza Год назад
@pinefilms3141 Shouldn't they pay for it?
@Payote88
@Payote88 Год назад
Dark water is an amazing movie about this exact situation.
@zendecibelsraw
@zendecibelsraw Год назад
Too little too late. It's time these too big to fail company's go down for the devastation they have caused. It's not just the company either. the lobbyists & politicians need to be held accountable too!!!
@nh251
@nh251 Год назад
No company is too big to fail.
@Squintis
@Squintis Год назад
@@nh251 sure seems like it now days..
@kap4020
@kap4020 Год назад
Dont forget that a lot of states have recommended but not _required_ PFAS limits. So they can say they meet "all legal requirements " but it's still toxic. Also, these companies lobby to never upgrade the "recommended" limits to "required".
@Davethreshold
@Davethreshold Год назад
My heart ENTIRELY goes out to that farmer. For the companies? Sue them back into the stone age. ☠💀
@jordansime6684
@jordansime6684 Год назад
I'm glad this is being talked about. The section on "what items contain PFAS chemicals" at 2:17 doesn't convey the scale of the issue. Takeout containers, cups, paper-based milk cartons, any paper/cardboard food container with a smooth waxy/plastic inside just to name a few egregious ones. PFAS chemicals are the cheapest and easiest solution. Some types of dental floss are literally made of the stuff. Plumber's tape- the stuff that kees our water system sealed tight- is made of PFAS chemicals that have the potential to leech into your water system. Even if you remove all of the plumber's tape in your house, there's still going to be some on the distribution end of the water system. Once you go down the rabbit hole of items containing PFAS chemicals, it's hard to look at everyday items the same.
@menjolno
@menjolno Год назад
Looks like you can't wait for the people who don't have the "forever chemical" to be labeled as pure as virgins. Here is the cooties game being played again as an adult. Stop fear mongering
@l.h.tnguyen4916
@l.h.tnguyen4916 Год назад
Less regulation, abolishing the EPA, absolute free markets... they all have consequences.
@freddyfriend5462
@freddyfriend5462 Год назад
That is exactly how China grew big.
@dicemaster1996
@dicemaster1996 Год назад
@@freddyfriend5462 it’s also exactly why there’s a live leak section dedicated to Chinese workers
@1014p
@1014p Год назад
EPA did nothing, clearly if you look EPA was a money generator. Numerous chemicals known to be deadly to known damage to biologicals.
@ok.ok.5735
@ok.ok.5735 Год назад
EPA? DuPont manufactured Napalm! WTH you talking about!
@l.h.tnguyen4916
@l.h.tnguyen4916 Год назад
@@ok.ok.5735 You need to learn to read. WTH you talking about?
@jfresh3000
@jfresh3000 Год назад
Pfas are scary and I hope the chemical companies lose. The corporations won't do what's right. Toxic chemicals should have been made illegal a long time ago. Another example of how the rich and powerful run the show.
@Novastar.SaberCombat
@Novastar.SaberCombat Год назад
Of course. Rich gotta rich. Poor gotta serve. Masters and slaves, as always. 💪😎✌️
@gregorymalchuk272
@gregorymalchuk272 Год назад
They are they chemicals in your clothing and upholstery that keep you from turning into a human torch if a spark lands on you. Show a little appreciation.
@jasonkleckner4510
@jasonkleckner4510 Год назад
So you are going to quit using your cell phone and computer? There are toxic chemicals such as arsenic used in them.
@MrTravis777
@MrTravis777 Год назад
They won’t lose. This has been an ongoing problem. You never seen the movie dark waters? They will just pay people off and keep doing the same thing.
@Squintis
@Squintis Год назад
@@jasonkleckner4510 I’ll make sure not to eat my cellphone..
@WegmansLover
@WegmansLover Год назад
I can’t believe this isn’t actually getting banned and regulated but instead we are leaving it up to these companies to phase it out all while we keep an eye on the stock price.
@menjolno
@menjolno Год назад
Here is the cooties game being played again as an adult. Stop fear-mongering.
@perraplays4126
@perraplays4126 Год назад
No more sueing, no more slaps on the wrist. Arrest higher-ups, put the fear of consequences back into the hearts of the wealthiest people
@jamesm.3520
@jamesm.3520 Год назад
YES
@the-letter_s
@the-letter_s Год назад
as if prison will teach them anything. on the rare occasions an oligarch goes to prison, they get luxury treatment. sending them to what amounts to an inforced vacation will accomplish nothing. there's only one permanent solution.
@963freeme
@963freeme 10 месяцев назад
They can buy their way out of jail.
@XxXenosxX
@XxXenosxX Год назад
No amount of money will make up for these chemicals.
@pcaso
@pcaso Год назад
Dupont still hasnt paid for Bhopal victims. What a shame!
@andrewliu2526
@andrewliu2526 Год назад
I first heard of Pfas in 2018, Mark Ruffalo starred in a movie; Dark Waters in 2019 about PFas. Very enlightening. Too bad it's taken this long for this Public Announcement to become more mainstream. Better late than never
@rachitmehta4987
@rachitmehta4987 Год назад
I'm glad to know someone else has seen that movie
@PaulAllen786
@PaulAllen786 Год назад
The US Army also poisoned the water of the entire island of Oahu with military chemical waste in WW2. Its having major ramifications currently. This is why we need better enforcement of the plethora of environmental regulations already in place but are not being enforced
@mattm597
@mattm597 Год назад
Well, we know none of these companies are advertisers on CNBC/NBC. Otherwise, they would not be doing the story.
@All2Skitzd
@All2Skitzd Год назад
​@@NotOnlyLiveOnce I also like India news WION, they are sometimes victims to American propaganda just because they source a small amount of their news from propaganda factories but they also will call out the propaganda like NYT, they visited the house to show the US didn't drone strike a terrorist like they said, they called out the Pfizer cartel when explaining why India turned down the vaccine.
@ThePhilotherianist
@ThePhilotherianist Год назад
@@NotOnlyLiveOnce Fox is a long-time proponent of free capitalism and the abolition of any and all market regulations, and virtually never calls out corporations for this type of behavior because of it.
@ronkirk5099
@ronkirk5099 Год назад
We can't trust 'the market' to protect the public health and safety because putting profits before consequences to the environment is ALWAYS a BAD bargain. If the GQP has its' way all of our regulatory agencies would be abolished to allow corporations free reign to contaminate the environment with impunity. We can do better protecting the public interest.
@gregorymalchuk272
@gregorymalchuk272 Год назад
The market gave us wonders like fluorinated fire retardants that keep us from burning alive, and all kinds of of surfactants and coatings that massively improve our quality of life.
@DegenerateToo
@DegenerateToo Год назад
Solomon’s law!
@Squintis
@Squintis Год назад
@@gregorymalchuk272 it also gave us pfas in our drinking water. There should be a ‘free’ market, but it should be regulated. Heavily if you’re a big phara or chem company.
@ThePhilotherianist
@ThePhilotherianist Год назад
@@gregorymalchuk272 No dude, that came about because of people that had been educated in sciences like chemistry.
@ThePhilotherianist
@ThePhilotherianist Год назад
@@Squintis A regulated market isn't a free market. Free market refers to Randian style, laissez faire capitalism. Capitalism with no regulations or limitations.
@coye9r
@coye9r Год назад
We knew this for decades and now just suing?
@jmd1743
@jmd1743 Год назад
In China they would have executed the company executives like what happened with the contaminated baby formula. This is a total nightmare given the extent of the global contamination of PFAS chemicals. It would cost trillions of dollars to clean up everything globally of just this one type of pollution.
@scarecrow2275
@scarecrow2275 Год назад
DuPonte, 3M and Suncor all have chemical plants in Sarnia, Ontario, which is only about 40km away from the Bluewater Water Treatment Plant in Grand Bend, Ontario, so we can most likely assume that Ontarians should most likely consider a class action lawsuit against the same companies, just taking a wild stab at assuming they dump into the Great Lakes as well.
@mikearchibald744
@mikearchibald744 Год назад
I lived in Waterloo ontario, and human sludge was sprayed on ALL the farmers fields, including mennonite farms. Who wants to bet this never gets reported in canada.
@scarecrow2275
@scarecrow2275 Год назад
@@mikearchibald744 Human feces are not spread on fields in Waterloo or anywhere else in this province, that would be animal feces, I know cause I live on a farm....crackhead! lol
@Squintis
@Squintis Год назад
@@mikearchibald744 sludge? Could have been manure.
@mikearchibald744
@mikearchibald744 Год назад
@@Squintis Well, technically it WAS manure, humanure they call it, I call it sludge because its full of all kinds of unmentionables. But no, this was not even contentious, they TOLD people it was human sludge being sold to farmland. There was ONE woman with the guts to fight back, she quit after a few too many 'visits' at night from farmers telling her to shut up. Thats how much business, in this case just farmers, don't like activists. And this was a decade or more ago and we weren't even THINKING of 'forever chemicals' which even today hardly anybody knows squat about. Eat up! While you can.
@Squintis
@Squintis Год назад
@@mikearchibald744 that is pretty gross. I wonder why the farmers didn’t side with the lady? They wanted their farms to smell and look like poo?
@ChristianRunsNY
@ChristianRunsNY Год назад
Wait till everyone realizes many farms are probably affected the same way that are never tested. And that food goes to all the restaurants many people eat. Best of luck to us all...
@chrissolace
@chrissolace Год назад
I can’t imagine being so greedy you’d be ok with poisoning people, poisoning the water supply with chemicals known to last “forever”, and just being ok with that for a quick buck, despite it even being able to get back to you.
@codegeassfan4life28
@codegeassfan4life28 Год назад
If companies can vote and have rights then they should be reprimanded beyond fines, how about a mandatory recall on all current products 3M produce to the general public until they can prove their new manufacturing uses no PFAS chemicals, go after the board of directors and management (CEO CFO) in the past 30 yrs and make an example out of them. They knowingly knew how it affected the human body but stayed quite and promoted their "safe" products, there's countless people suffering from health effects, and that's just in the US.
@Freshbott2
@Freshbott2 Год назад
All employees involved should be liable for jail time like anyone else would. That would be the motivation to leave when they know what everyone will eventually know anyway. Longest sentences for the top though.
@jasonkleckner4510
@jasonkleckner4510 Год назад
Roy Ryan. You should google how many products on this planet have PFAS in them. This is not only a 3m problem 1000s of companies used these chemicals during manufacturing and I'm sure in 1940 they didn't really know the consequences of using these products...This is the media once again targeting specific companies and people just as they do with politics. At the rate this world is going we will sue ourselves all out of work and available products. Might just as well go back to living in caves
@osamaal-humaimidi1481
@osamaal-humaimidi1481 Год назад
@@Freshbott2 all employees and shareholders, every investor buying their shares is part of this crime
@nh251
@nh251 Год назад
@@osamaal-humaimidi1481 Also, take the money they've given to their families, take the mansions they've bought, take the jets they own. If they profited from PFAS they shouldn't have it.
@branflakee4257
@branflakee4257 Год назад
PFAS AND PFOS is in every states water supply, every chicken, beef, eggs, vegetables, organic and non-organic.
@ferrisr
@ferrisr Год назад
Kind of ironic/sad that the answer to polluted water is cases of single-use plastic water bottles full of water.
@SquaresToOvals
@SquaresToOvals Год назад
Sued? I think most people agree something much worse should be done to those who've been knowingly proliferating life-ruining toxic waste into their communities for decades.
@hko2006
@hko2006 Год назад
Please do more corporate greed stories
@kenneth9874
@kenneth9874 Год назад
And even worse politicians greed
@kenneth9874
@kenneth9874 Год назад
@DDd-gm8uz nope, not even close, dealing with a corporation is voluntary
@kenneth9874
@kenneth9874 Год назад
@DDd-gm8uz no, what they steal is involuntary
@kenneth9874
@kenneth9874 Год назад
@DDd-gm8uz that is just one way that the democrat hierarchy steals taxpayers money,they funnel what they can for kickbacks, that has nothing to do with capitalism just personal greed along with the myriad other sweet deals they have that are involuntarily paid for by taxation, in the communist system they just steal it outright
@memhisrocks45
@memhisrocks45 Год назад
They dont care as long as they make their money. Doesn't even matter if they poison their grandchildren as long as the people at the top can get another Ferrari smh
@user-qr7ee2cp4y
@user-qr7ee2cp4y Год назад
This is what happens when gov't get out of the way and stops over regulating corporations.
@kswiss267
@kswiss267 Год назад
I’m a chemist and this stuff is one of those things we wished we never invented. Hopefully one day we can fix this problem and transition away from it.
@xsnipersgox
@xsnipersgox Год назад
There are no better replacement without rolling back mankind by hundreds of years in multiple sectors.
@tetrabromobisphenol
@tetrabromobisphenol Год назад
The sad thing is there really was no need to use these substances in the first place. The only application that ever really made sense was AFFF (fire fighting foam) because nothing else could ever match it's ability to suffocate a fire. All of the other applications were to improve performance of existing products that were working alright to begin with. An example of this would be fast food wrappers...I don't recall anyone complaining that waxed paper didn't work, but someone at DuPont sure managed to convince the food industry they "needed" better food wrappers.
@bobbyjones7505
@bobbyjones7505 Год назад
Good job Heisenberg
@the-letter_s
@the-letter_s Год назад
@@xsnipersgox then maybe we _should._
@Francois_Dupont
@Francois_Dupont Год назад
LOLOLOL, Dupont is literally the inventor of Teflon.
@Squintis
@Squintis Год назад
So use stainless steel with a little oil rub
@Francois_Dupont
@Francois_Dupont Год назад
@@Squintis i wont tell you everything, but basically stainless steel in food is also bad. please instead use cast iron, glass or titanium. aluminum is OK if it is properly anodized.
@opalyankaBG
@opalyankaBG Год назад
Huge respect for the farmers who shut down immediately. If only large corporations acted the same! By the way, I highly recommend the movie Dark Waters which concerns the same topic.
@SB-qm5wg
@SB-qm5wg Год назад
It's a fact they knew for decades and covered it up.
@hbarudi
@hbarudi Год назад
There is also another problem. Once you sue those companies they will move all this and the jobs to China or any other country without restrictions and continue polluting.
@Squintis
@Squintis Год назад
Yes and that’s awful by at least it’s put to light that it was bad enough to ban. Then it’s up to the other countries to accept their business or not.
@jarednovel
@jarednovel Год назад
Criminal justice in the America and the rest of the world is two tiered. One for the rich and powerful and another for the ordinary folks
@susynne2124
@susynne2124 Год назад
1. The damage is already done and is irreversible. No amount of lawsuits can fix that. It cannot be undone. The chemicals cannot be removed or neutralized. This is not only about the farmers or livestock raisers, that one high school, or isolated illnesses. This is about you and me across the country and perhaps the world, the ecosystems, and the earth. 2. Dow, "...[we are] not alleged to have caused any environmental contamination." In other words, we haven't been caught yet.
@GrowUpOrBlowUp
@GrowUpOrBlowUp Год назад
They can be removed it's just incredibly expensive so at the ecosystem level we wouldn't for a long long time. For your own safety you can use a reverse osmosis filter (look up specifics. One had a 60% rejection rate and another has close to 99%). I believe they came out with another system that's actually better than RO as well.
@LivingOutVariousExperiences
If that’s in the ground imagine what we have consumed
@gregorymalchuk272
@gregorymalchuk272 Год назад
Imagine all the people who haven't burned alive because of fluorinated fire retardants.
@ok.ok.5735
@ok.ok.5735 Год назад
I keep on saying the mental health problems in our country are from chemicals in our water and food and everything else is just a distraction.
@ayesadler
@ayesadler Год назад
Im from Parkersburg West Virginia. Home of the Original Dupont Dumping grounds of c8. How long will America let this company do this to our people... we were never compensated for anything that happened in our town.
@assymcgee2835
@assymcgee2835 Год назад
Me too, had cancer and all, got laughed at when I called the law office by some dumb paralegal.
@omgness1234
@omgness1234 Год назад
Can’t wait to see the documentary series about this in 5 years, extremely sad that we continue to come up with new messed up chemicals in food/kitchen items
@rachitmehta4987
@rachitmehta4987 Год назад
There already is. It's called dark waters
@billx4266
@billx4266 Год назад
Not only in the us, we have also the same problem, here in Antwerp, Belgium! Also a 3M plant!
@MK_ULTRA420
@MK_ULTRA420 Год назад
I drink beer instead of tap water to avoid health problems.
@mattm597
@mattm597 Год назад
My gosh! If in a place like Maine, where else?!!!!
@miles5600
@miles5600 Год назад
bro it's all over the world now. these companies have been secretly dumping PFAS into our oceans and didn't give a damn.
@tonyotag
@tonyotag Год назад
Where is the EPA on this? If in the soil, where is the superfund designation of the land?
@kenneth9874
@kenneth9874 Год назад
They were paid off of course
@CJ-mt6zd
@CJ-mt6zd Год назад
Profits over humanity
@Dfgbuiiyyyybb
@Dfgbuiiyyyybb Год назад
The damage has already been done. The only take away is that we prevent things like this from getting off the ground in the future. These companies are long gone and they’ve already made their money and they left the land and water they touched unusable forever. Don’t forget all the long term health effects.
@haroldlamble5163
@haroldlamble5163 Год назад
To many plastics. Plastics are showing up in fish , humans , cattle, water everywhere.
@rupanjan
@rupanjan Год назад
American companies realise this cost of doing business expenses is much less and they know they will get away with it in civil courts. The law system in the country encourages such behaviours
@tea98988
@tea98988 Год назад
Does that means we should not drink the tap water when visiting Bangor, Maine? My hats off the young farmer to be a crusader in "Defend our Health". Best wishes for him and the none profit.
@forhisglory7489
@forhisglory7489 Год назад
It's not just Maine, it's the entire west coast and mid west states and part of the north east states.. yes its that bad and the greedy government knew of this toxins for decades and never did anything about it but looked the other way. I'm glad that now this is getting attention and hopefully we can save the little bit of states that don't have that much contamination of pfas .
@OCDonut6139
@OCDonut6139 Год назад
This is happening in Michigan right now. 3M & Dupont should be held accountable for their chemicals.
@BradleyLevesque02
@BradleyLevesque02 Год назад
we already knew that DuPont has been manufacturing PFAS's since at least the 40s and has know how dangerous they are since then, but dont worry 3m "losing" money is the real issue here
@pascaldumont8525
@pascaldumont8525 Год назад
Imagine, living in the United States expecting justice, only for companies to face minimum fines
@watsonwrote
@watsonwrote Год назад
I feel bad for all the vets who had hearing damage :(
@daleanolan1464
@daleanolan1464 Год назад
We are so concerned we will stop in a few years.
@tetrabromobisphenol
@tetrabromobisphenol Год назад
Correct, only after they've added another 300 million metric tons to the environment first. Clearly they are so very sorry.
@MuiKaHo
@MuiKaHo Год назад
farmer: they need to step up to the plate and pay for the impact to the world chemical manufacturer: LOL no, you have to take it from my cold dead body first.
@yoshiworkmusic
@yoshiworkmusic Год назад
Why is this a future plan? Shut it down right now! Why is the stock price dictating our health?
@Dyst0piaa7
@Dyst0piaa7 Год назад
Dystopian ass world
@SarahSmith-zj2ek
@SarahSmith-zj2ek Год назад
Imagine being a government and trying to convince people you have integrity and are there for them when the corporations who pull the strings are openly hurting the people.
@DeerLodgeBlog
@DeerLodgeBlog Год назад
My city has chosen not to test for pfas because they think “why?” They tried to say we have no contamination here, even though pfas has been found on top of Everest.
@stevefoster1276
@stevefoster1276 22 дня назад
Thank you big government. I wonder what the pay back is for the EPA.
@betterpoliticsquetu
@betterpoliticsquetu Год назад
they said they will stop in 2025 lmao how about immediately any company responsible for pfas deserves to pay
@Voltomess
@Voltomess Год назад
oh yeah they gonna "pay" but $$$$ here and there and they will keep going
@lockout6896
@lockout6896 Год назад
How big business and pharma act and are allowed to get away with are like something out of a dystopian future movie 😅
@dennystake347
@dennystake347 9 месяцев назад
And yet Dupont and 3M are still in business...
@cameronclarke7028
@cameronclarke7028 Год назад
As a people we NEED to come together because we can accomplish anything TOGETHER and fight these problems
@java4653
@java4653 Год назад
Weird story since CNBC are cheerleaders for environmental dangers.
@bigripper2048
@bigripper2048 Год назад
"now that we've poisoned the ever living fugg out of everything, we'll quit making PFAS"- 3M
@michaelh4816
@michaelh4816 4 месяца назад
How about stop production now wtf
@seangelarden9543
@seangelarden9543 Год назад
They'll pay a nominal fine , admit no wrongdoing and keep doing exactly what they are doing now
@skipsch
@skipsch Год назад
It seems amazing and rare for a story like this to even get out on such a large network, but I'm glad that it is
@cmdrriotz5283
@cmdrriotz5283 Месяц назад
Watch Dark Waters; it's basically this. Dupont is guilty for literal years.
@theendlessdaydream6442
@theendlessdaydream6442 Год назад
5:13 Vice just did a documentary on a farm in Michigan with the exact same story. Soil and water samples should be taken across the US and these companies should pay for the level of destruction they've caused. The health problems they inflicted on so many unaware people is beyond disgusting.
@ProducerX21
@ProducerX21 Год назад
And we wonder why everyone gets cancer. Imagine all the chemicals we come into contact with everyday that we don’t even know if they cause cancer
@johnkubek4246
@johnkubek4246 10 дней назад
We want all these things: ‘… products including waterproof fabric such as Nylon, yoga pants, carpets, shampoo, feminine hygiene products, mobile phone screens, wall paint, furniture, adhesives, food packaging, heat-resistant non-stick cooking surfaces such as Teflon, firefighting foam, and the insulation of electrical wire.’ -Wikipedia But we don’t want PFAS in our water. There are no solutions only trade offs ~Thomas Sowell 1930-
@ashleylala4293
@ashleylala4293 Год назад
Thank you to those farmers for doing the right thing. A lot of people put money before everything else.
@Flowmaster925
@Flowmaster925 Год назад
20 years ago this was a Conspiracy Theory, yall are doomed
@travishawkins1493
@travishawkins1493 Год назад
I don't understand how DuPont can say that they've never manufactured these forever chemicals. I thought they created these chemicals. What am I missing?
@tetrabromobisphenol
@tetrabromobisphenol Год назад
Dupont spun off a company called Chemours that had all of their legacy fluorinated products in 2015. It's like a mobster selling off their cocaine trafficking business and pretending they've been law-abiding their whole life. It's the typical doublespeak gaslighting of the Corporatocracy that runs this rapidly deteriorating, formerly 1st world country we call the USA.
@assymcgee2835
@assymcgee2835 Год назад
From my research on this, being from Parkersburg where the Washington Works plant is, DuPont purchased the C8 from 3M, with specific instructions to incinerate that garbage out of existence after use, and instead they dumped it in the river. Proper disposal would have cost 1 Million annually on a 1 Billion portfolio. It was apparently cheaper and easier to just wait till dark and dump it. If you have ever seen a little stream that foams where it goes over rocks or something, thick bubbly crap like beer suds, thats the C8 from my understanding.
@assymcgee2835
@assymcgee2835 Год назад
58 seconds, I think thats the fastest like I ever got
@travishawkins1493
@travishawkins1493 Год назад
@@assymcgee2835 Thank you. This offers an interesting insight into the decision-making mind of DuPont. Since they did not create the technology, they were not as motivated to use it responsibly. But relatively, 3M had a healthy degree of terror about it
@assymcgee2835
@assymcgee2835 Год назад
@@travishawkins1493 glad I could share some of the mostly pointless research.
@B-Ran_the_Man
@B-Ran_the_Man Год назад
Simple solution: "How much money do you have? We'll be taking all of that. And we'll be taking all profits you make over the next 10 years to fix the mess that was left by you nationwide. Thanks."
@TanDJServices
@TanDJServices Год назад
3M and Dupont calling the lobbyists and funding testing to show that the PFAS levels are perfectly acceptable. When you're losing the only way to win is to change the rules of the game.
@JJs_playground
@JJs_playground Год назад
I hope the farmers win the lawsuit against 3M,DuPont, etc...
@kenneth9874
@kenneth9874 Год назад
Include Monsanto
@samueladams5243
@samueladams5243 Год назад
the superintendent looks like he just got out of the joint
@robertcampbell5485
@robertcampbell5485 Год назад
lol
@jamesjuggler5187
@jamesjuggler5187 Год назад
Sue the crap out of them.
@Runbhoomi
@Runbhoomi Год назад
This is serious hazard
@djSpinege
@djSpinege Год назад
when i was in middle school there was a label above the fountain that said to run the tap for 1min before drinking because we had lead pipes. so messed up.
@joejoe188
@joejoe188 Год назад
What are the best in home water filters that remove pfas chemicals in drinking water?
@Squintis
@Squintis Год назад
Good luck. It’s why they’re pretty bad for us. I think you need a 3 tiered system at least. They’re molecules, it’s very hard to filter out.
@ericmares8036
@ericmares8036 3 месяца назад
Worried about microplastics in water while drinking out of plastic bottles. Does that make sense?
@ronniecudia5514
@ronniecudia5514 5 месяцев назад
It needs to stop manufacturing chemicals that are highly toxic or can harm in the future
@d4ngerd4n
@d4ngerd4n Год назад
"This is where the water comes from the well" *Points to the fire sprinkler system
@SlapOfReality
@SlapOfReality Год назад
We don’t manufacture PFAS chemicals. We just buy and use more than any other company.
@MissRazna
@MissRazna Год назад
lots of wild deer aren't edible in maine anymore because they graze PFAS contaminated lands
@bakerkawesa
@bakerkawesa Год назад
The Midas touch. Nominally useful chemicals that contaminate everything they touch.
@jrortega5062
@jrortega5062 Год назад
Remove it completely
@masaharumorimoto4761
@masaharumorimoto4761 Год назад
Gotta do the expensive soil tests like Mr.Lahey said!
@sirsoos3546
@sirsoos3546 Год назад
Besides only getting sued, ownership/management should be forced to change.
@RushilAggarwal12
@RushilAggarwal12 2 месяца назад
Just Finished watching "Dark Warters" . Man these companies should be more careful
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