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• Polk firm engineers new technology to capture HF

  LAKELAND – Gases escaping from fertilizer company cooling ponds have been blamed for injuring orange trees and making cows teeth fall out after they eat tainted grass. But a Polk County company has invented a new way to recover a valuable commodity from the ponds, which DuPont says it is ready to buy. What’s more, […]

• Fluorines make hydrogen bonds

  Scientists in the US have shown that fluorine compounds can form hydrogen bonds, a finding that could have implications for the pharmaceutical industry, they say Fluorine is often used in drug development as its presence in organic compounds can affect properties such as absorption, distribution and stability. However, exactly how it interacts with biological molecules […]

• Minnesota: 3M turns the tables on Met Council in Mississippi River pollution lawsuit

  The 3M Co. has a new tactic to defend itself against a lawsuit filed by the state of Minnesota and the Metropolitan Council: If we polluted, so did you. In a counterclaim filed Monday, the company said that if it is found liable for polluting the Mississippi River, the Met Council also should pay. That’s […]

• Ohio & WV: C8 Science Panel schedules public meetings

  CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A three-person panel studying the health effects of the toxic chemical C8 said Monday it would hold three public meetings later this month to hear from Mid-Ohio Valley residents. The meetings, set for Sept. 26 and 27, will be the first open, public meetings held by the C8 Science Panel since it […]

• WVU study ties C8 to kidney disease

  People with C8 in their blood face a greater risk of having chronic kidney diseases, according to the latest in a series of West Virginia University studies on the toxic chemical. The study found that people with higher levels of C8 in their blood were 82 percent more likely to have chronic kidney disease, or […]

• DuPont’s C8 (perfluorooctanoate acid, or PFOA) Found To Increase Cancer

  DuPont’s C8, also known as perfluorooctanoate acid, or PFOA, has been found to contain a multitude of health risks, national class action product liability attorney Keith T. Belt says Workers at DuPont Co.’s plants who were exposed to the chemical C8 were more likely to die from kidney cancer and other kidney diseases, according to […]

• C8 Science Panel finds more problems in new studies

  When last we heard from the three scientists on the C8 Science Panel, they were explaining to Wood County Circuit Judge J.D. Beane all their reasons for not yet issuing a finding about whether there is a “probable link” between exposure to the chemical C8 and adverse human health effects. Well, the Science Panel has […]