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Drinking Water for 5.2 Million People Tainted by Unsafe Levels of PFCs
New EPA Guidelines on PFCs Welcome – but Still Fall Short
Today the Environmental Protection Agency issued a long-awaited drinking water health advisory for the perfluorinated chemicals PFOA and PFOS. But EPA's advisory falls far short of what's needed to...
EPA Must Act Now to Protect Public from Teflon Chemical in Drinking Water
The Environmental Protection Agency was first alerted 15 years ago to contamination of drinking water by PFOA, a chemical used to make Teflon that has since been linked to cancer, hormone disruption...
It’s National Teflon Day – But Hold the Celebration
UPDATE: Is Toxic Teflon Chemical in Your Drinking Water?
The bad news about a toxic chemical used to make Teflon keeps getting worse.
Great Lakes Gull Eggs Contaminated by Non-Stick Chemicals
Perfluorinated compounds, or PFCs – the class of chemicals used in DuPont's Teflon, 3M's Scotchgard and many other products – pollute the bodies of people and animals in every corner of the world. In...
Study: Teflon Chemical Linked to Childhood Obesity
Children born to mothers who were exposed during pregnancy to higher levels of PFOA, the non-stick chemical DuPont formerly used to make Teflon, tend to put on more weight and do so more quickly than...
DuPont Found Liable for Cancer from Teflon Chemical – $1.6 Million in Damages
A federal jury on Wednesday (Oct. 7) found DuPont liable for causing an Ohio woman's kidney cancer by poisoning her drinking water with a chemical used to make Teflon. The jurors ordered the company...
Day of Reckoning for DuPont Over Teflon Chemical
More than 15 years after an attorney investigating mysterious cattle deaths in Parkersburg, W. Va., discovered that DuPont had polluted the area's drinking water with a carcinogenic chemical used to...
Is Your Drinking Water Contaminated with Toxic Non-stick Chemicals?
When you drink a glass of water, you expect it to be clean and pure, not contaminated with invisible toxic chemicals. But nationwide testing has found that 6.5 million Americans in 27 states are...
More Bad News for DuPont: Teflon Chemical Builds Up in Breast-fed Babies
If you're a chemical industry spin doctor trying to discredit the scientific evidence on the dangers of a compound that contaminates the drinking water of millions of Americans, Thursday was a bad day...
222 Scientists Call for Reduced Use of Stain- and Waterproofing Chemicals Common in Clothing, Carpets and Cookware
“Stain-resistant, Nonstick, Waterproof and Lethal” is how journalist Callie Lyons refers to a chemical called C8 that's found in the bodies of nearly all humans and animals on the planet. Exposure to...
Chemicals in Food Wrappers and Outdoor Clothing Linked to Spike in Miscarriages
More bad news about the nonstick, greaseproof and waterproof chemicals in cookware, food wrappers, outdoor clothing and even cosmetics: In a Danish study, women whose blood had high levels of these...
Teflon-Killing Canaries and the American Dream
As a new EWG report shines a light on DuPont's poisoned legacy in the mid-Ohio River Valley, it's a good time to look back at Teflon's canary effect.
Greening your family: One woman's inspiration
Top 10 Environment Stories of the Decade -- That You Might Have Missed
Healthy Home Tip 6: (Still) skipping the non-stick
Ask EWG: Why is there Teflon in clothes? Is it safe?
Beyond DuPont’s Game Face On Federal Teflon Chemical Inquiry Lie Aggressive and Illegal Efforts To Control Damage
A routine-seeming government meeting this Friday marks the public debut of what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says is one of the most sweeping regulatory inquiries it has ever mounted...