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Examining the water we drink: Family’s lost herd led to revelations about C8
When the Tennant family lost an entire herd of cattle to a mysterious wasting disease on their Washington, W.Va., farm they hired an attorney and went looking for answers. In the process of testing their land for clues as to the source of the problem that ruined their herd, studies revealed the presence of C8 […]
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Examining the water we drink: Concerns about C8 linger
Concerns about polluted drinking water began to emerge for more than 12,000 Washington County residents when a manufacturing chemical called C8 was revealed in some area public water systems in January 2002. But local water systems had been secretly tested by officials at DuPont’s Washington, W.Va., Works plant, the source of the chemical, decades earlier. […]
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Judge Won’t Quit DuPont Lawsuit
A judge in Parkersburg, W.Va., refused to step down from a class-action lawsuit filed by Ohio and West Virginia residents who claim that a DuPont plant contaminated water supplies. Wood County Circuit Judge George W. Hill lives in the area where the chemical was detected and could be a potential benefactor, DuPont said. A court […]
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DuPont officials file a request to protect its medical records
PARKERSBURG — A motion from DuPont to block the release of certain medical records of employees beyond testing for the presence of C8 was filed in Wood County Circuit Court Friday afternoon. Steve Fennell, an attorney with Steptoe and Johnson in Washington, D.C., the firm representing DuPont, said the company is not seeking to prevent […]
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EPA reaches consent agreement with DuPont on plan to supply drinking water
PHILADELPHIA -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized a consent agreement with E.I. Dupont Nemours & Co. (DuPont), which would require the company to provide an alternate drinking water supply to residents in communities surrounding its Washington Works facility near Parkersburg, W. Va. if water supplies show high levels of Ammonium Perfluorooctanoate (or C8), an […]
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