‘The Devil We Know:’ How DuPont Poisoned the World with Teflon
Jul 31, 2019 · A new Netflix documentary titled, “The Devil We Know,” tells the story of DuPont’s decades-long cover-up of the harm caused by chemicals used to make its popular non-stick Teflon™ products. The film shows how the chemicals used to make Teflon poisoned people and the environment—not just in Parkersburg,
What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Dark Waters - Slate Magazine
Nov 22, 2019 · As unbelievable as it may sound, DuPont really did, in the 1960s, offer some of its staff Teflon-laced cigarettes as a human experiment into the potential side effects of the PFOA-produced ...
Three companies agree to pay more than $1 billion to settle ... - CNN
Jun 3, 2023 · The companies Chemours, DuPont and Corteva announced on Friday they have agreed to pay more than $1 billion to settle claims that “forever chemicals” contaminated public US water systems.
Polytetrafluoroethylene - Wikipedia
The commonly known brand name of PTFE-based composition is Teflon by Chemours, [4] a spin-off from DuPont, which originally discovered the compound in 1938. [4] Polytetrafluoroethylene is a fluorocarbon solid, as it is a high-molecular-weight polymer consisting wholly of …
Robert Bilott - Wikipedia
Bilott's work was also featured in extensive articles in The Huffington Post ("Welcome to Beautiful Parkersburg") and The Intercept (multi-part "The Teflon Toxin" series). Robert Bilott wrote the memoir Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle Against DuPont , first published in English in 2019 by Atria ...
Why Are DuPont and Chemours Still Discharging the Most …
Oct 26, 2020 · The Big Bang of the nationwide “forever chemicals” crisis was the revelation in 2001 that PFOA, a toxic compound used to make Teflon, had contaminated the drinking water for 70,000 people near a DuPont factory in West Virginia.
The Long, Strange History of Teflon, the Indestructible Product …
Aug 20, 2024 · On April 6, 1938, a group of chemists at DuPont gathered around part of their latest experiment: a plain metal cylinder. It supposedly contained tetrafluoroethylene, a colorless, odorless gas.
Texas sues DuPont, 3M over ‘forever chemicals’ in consumer
Paxton, in his lawsuit, alleged that DuPont’s Teflon and 3M’s Scotchgard were among products that the companies sold to Texans while concealing “substantial risks from consumers and the ...
Global brands lied about toxic "forever chemicals," new study …
Jun 2, 2023 · Researchers at a DuPont-funded lab discovered by 1970 that C-8, an older name for the chemicals, was "highly toxic when inhaled and moderately toxic when ingested," and a 1979 report found that...
Teflon’s Toxic Legacy: DuPont Knew for Decades It Was ... - EcoWatch
Jan 4, 2016 · Over the past few years, DuPont, 3M, and other chemical firms have begun marketing C8-free Teflon, and recent studies show that the levels of C8 in most people’s blood are dropping. Unfortunately, the new chemicals that have replaced C8 are also raising concerns.