Teflon, you might have heard, may cause cancer. The culprit was a toxic, now retired compound called PFOA. Also known as C8, the chemical became the subject of a major lawsuit accusing DuPont ...
A lawsuit filed by Santa Clara County alleges that manufacturers covered up the toxic effects of the substances.
One toxic compound killed all the monkeys 3M's scientists fed it to, and another entered the bodies of pregnant women workers at DuPont and was passed along to their babies. The two companies kept ...
Dark Waters explores the real-life 1990s case where a major corporation was suspected of dumping chemical waste ...
A north Alabama water supplier sued 3M, DuPont and a number of other corporate defendants ... including, but not limited to PFOA and PFOS at their facilities to impart water, stain, and grease ...
What risks does the PFOA liability pose to DuPont's future performance? The ongoing PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid) liability remains a significant concern for DuPont. Despite efforts to address ...
In this series, Sharon Lerner exposes DuPont’s multi-decade cover-up of the severe harms to health associated with a chemical known as PFOA, or C8, and associated compounds such as PFOS and GenX.
If you're using older nonstick cookware or cooking improperly with it, there is some evidence that certain health risks may ...
A decades-long battle over toxic pollution in Parkersburg, West Virginia, has reignited as a new federal lawsuit accuses chemical giant Chemours of illegally discharging high levels of PFAS (“forever ...
Fact-checking Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claims DuPont, like 3M, has known about the toxicity of PFAS for decades, as far back as the ’60s when it learned that PFOA caused liver damage in dogs ...
What risks does the PFOA liability pose to DuPont's future performance? The ongoing PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid) liability remains a significant concern for DuPont. Despite efforts to address this ...