( August 20, 2025, 12:49 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Aug. 19 vacated and remanded a lawsuit brought by the state of Vermont against 3M Co. over alleged contamination from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), ruling that 3M’s removal of the case to federal court was timely because Vermont’s email to 3M and a letter sent by a state environmental agency “did not provide nearly enough information for 3M to ascertain that the case against it was removable under the federal officer removal statute.”...