{"id":533270,"date":"2026-07-09T16:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/533270\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T16:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:40:08","slug":"new-york-sues-3m-dupont-and-others-over-forever-chemicals-in-consumer-goods-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/533270\/","title":{"rendered":"New York sues 3M, DuPont and others over &#8216;forever chemicals&#8217; in consumer goods | New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">New \u2060York sued 3M, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/dupont\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DuPont<\/a> and other companies \u2060on Thursday \u2060for \u200bcausing a public nuisance by selling \u201cforever \u2060chemicals\u201d that they knew were toxic for use \u2060in consumer products.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The \u200bstate\u2019s attorney \u200cgeneral, \u200cLetitia James, accused the companies \u200cof hiding the chemicals\u2019 environmental and health risks from consumers for decades, even as they \u200cbegan phasing out some of the chemicals, \u200bwhich are known as Pfas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Other defendants include Chemours, Corteva and EIDP, \u2060which were part of \u200bDuPont \u200bbefore being \u200bspun off. The lawsuit was \u200bfiled \u200cin a \u200bstate \u200bcourt in Albany, which is New York\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New \u2060York sued 3M, DuPont and other companies \u2060on Thursday \u2060for \u200bcausing a public nuisance by selling \u201cforever&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[114,85,46],"class_list":["post-533270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}