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EPA Takes Enforcement Action Against DuPont For Toxic Substances Reporting Violations
EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA) is taking an administrative action against E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Company (DuPont) for two violations of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and one violation of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). These violations consist of multiple failures to report information to EPA about […]
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Little Hocking Water customers needed for C8 study
An independent four-year study on the effects of C8 on Little Hocking Water Association Service District customers is set to begin this month. About 400 people will be asked in the following weeks to participate in the study by answering surveys and providing samples of blood and/or breast milk. Mailings are going out as early […]
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W.Va. Supreme Court orders DuPont documents unsealed in C8 suit
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A year before it was sued, a DuPont lawyer warned the chemical giant that it could be found liable in a class-action lawsuit alleging a chemical contaminated drinking water, according to company documents unsealed by the West Virginia Supreme Court. The court voted 5-0 Thursday to unseal the internal documents, which include […]
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New study finds cancer rate higher in C8-exposed areas
PARKERSBURG – A recently released study authored by Dr. James Dahlgren, a nationally known toxicologist retained by plaintiffs in a pending Wood County Circuit Court C8 class action lawsuit filed against DuPont Washington Works, states “the overall cancer prevalence rate is higher in the population exposed to C8 when compared to the general population.” Perfluorooctanonic […]
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Group to help spread word about C8 project
A community group is working to educate residents of the Little Hocking Water Association Service District about a study that could provide answers about the health effects of the chemical known as C8. The first newsletter about the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences study will be mailed by early next week to the 1,200 […]
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DuPont’s Teflon Dilemma
Since the early 1900s, the Tennant family had raised cattle over rolling hills in the far western reaches of West Virginia, near the Ohio River. But in the late 1980s, Wilbur Earl Tennant’s herd began to die off-280 Hereford cows in all. The Tennants suspected it had something to do with the black, odorous water […]
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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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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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Examining the water we drink: C8 spawns chemical family
The Teflon-related chemical that has become familiar to local people by the trade name C8 is named for the eight carbon atoms in its chain. If the scientific designation of ammonium perfluorooctanoate sounds complicated, the thousands of consumer products and technological advances made possible by the substance are nothing short of miraculous. “PFOA, or C8, […]
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