Children's Health Defense
by Carey Gillam
Chemical manufacturer 3M is allegedly hiding files that could shed light on the role that former 3M CEO and Chairman Lewis Lehr played years ago as the company was struggling internally to figure out how to deal with growing evidence that its toxic chemical compound PFOS was widespread in the blood of the general U.S. population.
According to a motion to compel filed Feb. 15 with the U.S. District Court in South Carolina by plaintiffsâ lawyers in sweeping multidistrict litigation, 3M has repeatedly failed to turn over Lehrâs files to the plaintiffsâ legal team despite multiple requests as part of court-ordered discovery…