{"id":8377,"date":"2022-12-20T16:37:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T15:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/20\/3m-sets-2025-deadline-to-stop-making-forever-chemicals\/"},"modified":"2022-12-20T16:37:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T15:37:53","slug":"3m-sets-2025-deadline-to-stop-making-forever-chemicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/20\/3m-sets-2025-deadline-to-stop-making-forever-chemicals\/","title":{"rendered":"3M sets 2025 deadline to stop making \u2018forever chemicals\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Company\u2019s current net sales of manufactured PFAS, which are linked to cancer and heart problems, are about $1.3bn<\/p>\n<p>US industrial conglomerate 3M on Tuesday set a deadline of 2025 to stop making PFAS, also known as \u201cforever chemicals\u201d, that are used in everything from cellphones to semiconductors and have been linked to illnesses ranging from cancer, heart problems to low birth weights.<\/p>\n<p>The per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances are known as forever chemicals because the substances do not break down quickly and have in recent years been found in dangerous concentrations in drinking water, soils and foods across the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2022\/dec\/20\/3m-pfas-forever-chemicals-deadline\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/70e78361887622e9f7f17a27c64c33a4407d93bd\/0_13_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3720018dfc18c5163487819d3d3acd94\" title=\"3M sets 2025 deadline to stop making \u2018forever chemicals\u2019\" \/>Company\u2019s current net sales of manufactured PFAS, which are linked to cancer and heart problems, are about $1.3bn<br \/>\nUS industrial conglomerate 3M on Tuesday set a deadline of 2025 to stop making PFAS, also known as \u201cforever chemicals\u201d, that are used in everything from cellphones to semiconductors and have been linked to illnesses ranging from cancer, heart problems to low birth weights.<br \/>\nThe per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances are known as forever chemicals because the substances do not break down quickly and have in recent years been found in dangerous concentrations in drinking water, soils and foods across the country. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company\u2019s current net sales of manufactured PFAS, which are linked to cancer and heart problems, are about $1.3bn US industrial conglomerate 3M on Tuesday set a deadline of 2025 to stop making PFAS, also known as \u201cforever chemicals\u201d, that are used in everything from cellphones to semiconductors and have been linked to illnesses ranging from &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/20\/3m-sets-2025-deadline-to-stop-making-forever-chemicals\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">3M sets 2025 deadline to stop making \u2018forever chemicals\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8377"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}