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Companies Knew the Dangers of PFAS 'Forever Chemicals'—and Kept Them Secret
Time via Yahoo News· 11 months ago3M, along with DuPont, are the targets of a new study alleging decades of covering up the dangers of...
Americans exposed to dangerous ‘forever chemical’ for 60 years, suit says. Factory fined
Kansas City Star via Yahoo News· 5 months agoA company accused of knowingly exposing Americans to dangerous chemicals for more than 60 years will...
Irénée du Pont, patriarch of Delaware's du Pont family, dead at 103
Delaware Online | The News Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIrénée du Pont Jr., the patriarch of Delaware's prominent, wealthy and influential du Pont family,...
Study finds unexpected demographic to have highest concentration of dangerous chemical in blood
The Cool Down via Yahoo News· 7 months agoHarmful chemicals known as PFAS can be found in food, water, and items we use on a daily basis....
Youth climate activists plan to protest the biggest social event for Washington's political-media...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJemal Countess/Getty Images for Sunrise AU Climate Defiance, a youth-led activism group, is...
Persistent farmer whose cows died from a mysterious disease helped unravel the origin of toxic...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIf Wilbur Earl Tennant’s cows hadn’t died from a mysterious wasting disease during the 1990s, the world might have never learned about the secret history of toxic forever chemicals. Tennant ...
Kentucky suing DuPont over years of chemical contamination from upstream W.Va. plant
The Courier Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoKentucky is taking one of the nation’s biggest chemical companies to court, alleging a legacy of chemical pollution from a facility in West Virginia has tainted the commonwealth’s natural resources ...
3 companies to pay $100M after lawsuit over 'forever chemicals' dumped into Ohio River
The Courier Journal via Yahoo News· 5 months agoDuPont and two other companies will pay the state of Ohio $110 million to settle a five-year-old lawsuit accusing them of dumping what is called "forever" chemicals into the Ohio River over ...
EDITORIAL: Legislature hobbled PFAS Protection Act
The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMar. 31—In September 2022, we editorialized on the U.S. Geological Survey report on the presence of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in West Virginia's water, which found 37 of 279 ...
Chemical firms to pay $110 million to Ohio to settle claims over releases of 'forever chemicals'
Associated Press via AOL· 5 months agoThe DuPont Co. and two spin-off firms will pay $110 million to the state of Ohio to settle a lawsuit over environmental threats from toxic chemicals used at a former DuPont facility in neighboring ...
