3M to Stop Producing PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ by End of 2025 (1)

3M Co., confronting regulatory pressure and lawsuits that threaten billions of dollars in damages, will stop making so-called forever chemicals and aim to discontinue their use in products by the end of 2025.

The announcement marks a historic break with an entire class of chemicals — consisting of thousands of variations on the carbon-fluorine bond — that were first created as part of World War II-era atomic bomb research. The company developed a variety of products with them over more than 70 years, including Scotchgard, and they were used in hundreds of other companies’ products such as firefighting foams ...