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• EWG’s submission on ATSDR’s Toxicological Profile on Perfluoroalkyls

  Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) Toxicological Profile for Perfluoroalkyls Draft for Public Comment Comments of Olga V. Naidenko, Ph.D. Senior Scientist Environmental Working Group “ATSDR needs to protect people and the environment from contamination with perfluoroalkyls” October 30, 2009 Environmental Working Group (EWG) is a non-profit public health and environmental research and […]

• DuPont Opens Fluoropolymer Production Plant in China

  A new DuPont fluoropolymer production plant has begun operations here. The plant, which produces polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) fine-powder and dispersion for global customers, with focus on Asia Pacific, marks a significant milestone in the company’s strategic plan to establish a broader fluoroproducts manufacturing base in China. “The opening of the Changshu plant supports our belief that […]

• New Greenhouse Gas Identified, Potent and Rare (but Expanding)

  Scientists have found rising concentrations of a newly identified gas in the air that traps heat more effectively than all other known greenhouse gases, the dozens of compounds released by industry and the burning of fuels that act like a greenhouse roof and may be warming the global climate. The synthetic gas is extremely rare, […]

• Gujarat Fluorochemicals. The great carbon credit con.

  The great carbon credit con: Why are we paying the Third World to poison its environment? In the fields around this giant chemicals factory in Gujarat, the barren soil smells of paint stripper and the water from the well makes you gag. So why has it been given tens of millions of pounds of taxpayer-funded […]

• Minnesota: Lawyers hope to turn suit against 3M into class action

  Attorneys will square off today in a high-stakes lawsuit about whether 3M chemicals in groundwater threaten the health of thousands of residents in the east metro area. The case was filed on behalf of six named residents, but approximately 1,000 others have joined, mostly from Lake Elmo and Oakdale, according to court documents. They claim […]

• EWG Joins DuPont’s C-8 Debate

  The Environmental Working Group (EWG; Washington) is challenging a recent assessment by the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (DEP; Charleston) of safe levels of ammonium perfluo-rooctanoate (C-8) contamination found near DuPont’s facility at Parkersburg, WV. The assessment concludes that C-8 is safe in drinking water at 150 parts per billion, and that a safe […]

• Minnesota: Lawmakers push for fast action on 3M chemicals

  A day after the state declared that fish in Minneapolis’ Lake Calhoun were tainted with a 3M chemical, legislative efforts to protect the public from harm from the company’s chemicals gained momentum at the Capitol. The state Senate voted overwhelmingly to strengthen the public-health guidelines for two 3M chemicals in drinking water, and to order […]

• Minnesota: Two 3M chemicals hazardous, state says

  The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has decided that two 3M chemicals are hazardous substances, giving it extra legal muscle if necessary to force the company to clean up the pollution spreading underground in the east metro. The chemicals, which were dumped in three Washington County locations decades ago, have seeped into the groundwater and polluted […]

• EPA wanted tougher C8 limit, memo says

  CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Federal government scientists originally sought a much tougher standard for the toxic chemical C8 than was included in a nationwide health advisory issued last month, according to an internal U.S. Environmental Protection Agency memo. More than three years ago, EPA staffers proposed that the agency rewrite a deal with DuPont Co. to […]

• Bush to issue last-minute PFOA water rule

  CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Less than a week before leaving office, the Bush administration appears ready to issue an emergency health advisory for drinking water polluted with the toxic chemical C8. The surprise move comes as federal scientists quietly investigate concerns that C8 contaminated the food chain through beef, after tainted sewage sludges were dumped on […]