Q Scotchgard contains perfluorochemicals, which have been in the news. I have Scotchgard on my children's mattresses. Can they safely sleep on these? Also, some lakes contain these chemicals. Can ...

MAPLEWOOD, Minn. -- Scotchgard is back. The familiar plaid aerosol can never really disappeared from the shelves. But Scotchgard's journey back to the market has been rocky -- and the stain-repellent ...

Fish from 54 Minnesota lakes outside the Twin Cities have low or undetectable levels of PFOS, the chemical formerly in Scotchguard, fire retardants and nonstick cookware that has raised health ...

Just in time for winter, Vans drops the Scotchgard pack of sneakers. Consisting of the 106 Vulcanized ($70), Era 59 ($65), and Sk8-Hi Reissue ($85), all the kicks are made of pig suede and treated ...

WASHINGTON (CBS Local)-- The contamination of U.S. drinking water with man-made "forever chemicals" is far worse than previously estimated, an environmental group reported on Wednesday. The ...

Co. may be poised to settle a lawsuit with Minnesota that sought $5 billion over pollution from former Scotchgard ingredients after a trial was abruptly halted. The jury trial, which had been ...

Scotchgard was invented in the 1950s when a researcher with the 3M Corporation, who was assigned to develop a lining for jet fuel tanks, accidentally spilled some test material on a co-worker’s shoe.

Patsy Sherman, a pioneering scientist at 3M Co. and the co-inventor of the original Scotchgard fabric protector, died Monday after a brief illness. She was 77. “She always had a great interest in ...

ROCKFORD, MI — More than two years ago, contractors for global shoe giant Wolverine World Wide began testing drinking water around a long-forgotten industrial waste dump. The results of that testing ...