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• Non-stick chemicals in NJ drinking water: Updated

  PFOA is used to make Teflon and other coatings. Scientists in New Jersey found the chemical in municipal drinking water in Gloucester and Salem counties, along with about a dozen others. The DuPont plant in South Jersey uses PFOA. Jane Nogaki, the vice chair of the New Jersey Environmental Federation says she was surprised by […]

• Minnesotta: MPCA opens bidding on landfill clean-up contract

  By the end of this month, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) should have a contractor selected to complete the clean up project at the Washington County Landfill in Lake Elmo. Doug Day, MPCA supervisor of the closed landfill unit, and Jeff Lewis, commissioner of the MPCA, shared the contractor selection process with the Lake […]

• Minnesota: In 3M case, judge says PFCs don’t qualify as a nuisance

  An enormous lawsuit over water is getting smaller. In a ruling Friday, a judge limited a lawsuit charging that chemicals manufactured by the 3M Co. polluted water and hurt Washington County homeowners. Washington County District Judge Mary Hannon ruled the chemicals — PFCs, or perfluorochemicals — found in drinking water cannot legally be considered a […]

• Minnesota: As 3M trial opens, harm from PFCs in dispute

  A group of Washington County residents finally got their day in court Monday — with opening arguments in the 3M Co. water pollution lawsuit. “For decades, 3M and Washington County have had a pact, of sorts,” attorney Martha Wivell said to a jury. By knowingly polluting the county’s water, she said, “3M broke that pact.” […]

• EPA’s C8 advisory flawed, researchers conclude

  CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A last-minute health advisory issued by the Bush administration for water contaminated with the toxic chemical C8 may not be nearly stringent enough, according to a new scientific paper. Researchers from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and Rutgers University concluded that the federal government’s health advisory did not consider some […]

• PFOA contaminated sludge spread in Lawrence County

  The first time most people in Lawrence County became aware of biosolids being spread on county fields was last summer when residents in the Mount Hope area complained. Biosolids are by products of human waste and come from sludge in waste water (sewer) treatment plants. People in Mount Hope were upset about the smell and […]

• Minnesota: 3M water suit goes to trial trimmed

  After five years, it comes down to this. The 3M Co. pollution case — at least, what’s left of it — staggers into court today. Dozens of lawyers have been working since 2005 for this day, the start of a jury trial expected to last eight weeks. Chemicals found in Washington County drinking water have […]

• PFOA elevated in Dupont’s Del. workers

  DuPont Co. workers at two Delaware locations have the chemical PFOA in their blood at levels far higher than the general public, according to documents submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency. The results, from workers at the company’s Experimental Station near Wilmington and a DuPont Performance Elastomers plant in Newark, suggest blood levels of perfluorooctanoic […]

• Ohio/WV: Parkersburg water warnings given for babies, elderly

  CHARLESTON, W.Va. — More than three years after their advice was requested, federal health officials have recommended that West Virginia warn residents of the Parkersburg area not to use C8-contaminated water to mix baby formula. The U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry also urged state officials to advise certain residents – pregnant women, […]

• Science Panel: No link between C8, miscarriages

  VIENNA – The C8 Science Panel reported Thursday that it had found no link between C8 and C8S, chemicals used in the manufacturing of Teflon, and miscarriages and preterm births and a weak, inconclusive link between the chemical and preeclampsia and immune-system markers. The science panel, which was created as part of the C8-class-action lawsuit […]