New Delhi:-  3M (originally Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company) is an American multinational corporation engaged in the industrial, occupational safety, health care, and consumer products businesses. The company manufactures multiple products, including adhesives, abrasives, laminates, passive fire protection, personal protective equipment, window films, paint protection films, dental and orthodontic products, electrical and electronic connecting and insulating materials, medical products, and automotive care products. We manufacture over 60,000 products under our brand. Products, electronic circuits, healthcare software, optical films, etc. The company is headquartered in Maplewood, a suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota.

With 3M's 2021 total revenue of $35.4 billion, he ranked 102nd in total revenue on the Fortune 500 list, the largest US company. As of 2021, the company has approximately 95,000 employees and offices in over 70 countries. It has several overseas subsidiaries such as 3M India, 3M Japan, and 3M Canada.

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In June 2023, 3M reached an agreement to pay more than $10 billion to the U.S. public water system to settle claims related to its water pollution by PFAS (so-called "Forever Chemicals"). 

Claims:- For nearly decades the company used chemicals (which are dubbed “forever chemicals” because they refuse to break down in the environment or the human body) in products such as firefighting foam, but hundreds of cities sued it for polluting their water and soil. If the money claimed to be given gets approved by the US Government it will be used for the cleaning up of the cities.

Disposal:- It has been recorded that they were inhaled at parties, discarded on city sidewalks, and sold in mall strips. Refillable e-cigarettes dominate the US e-cigarette market. Market share for disposable products has risen from 24.7% in early 2020 to nearly 52% in December 2022, according to an analysis by the CDC, CDC Foundation, and the Truth Initiative.

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The rise of disposable products, and the government's crackdown on e-cigarettes, is like a slap in the face. The FDA phased out refillable brands like Juul and Vuse in 2020, but a new generation of evaporative plastics has replaced them. Overall, e-cigarette sales in the United States increased by 47% during the analysis period. 

Results:- A deadly heatwave in the south shows no sign of abating, with forecasters increasingly predicting a dangerous combination of extreme heat and humidity to continue into next week. Severe weather has cut power to hundreds of thousands of people in three states and spawned tornadoes, one of which killed four people in Matador, Texas, on Wednesday. Meanwhile, about 100 people at a Louis Tomlinson concert in Colorado were injured in a severe hail storm Wednesday night. 

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Due to the consequences faced by the city people because of the released chemicals in the city by various means as mentioned the company had to undergo many allegations that made them avail of the facts about what they did and made them pay for it.