Parkersburg Wv Dupont Case

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Parkersburg wv dupont case. More than a decade ago residents near the company s washington works plant in wood county west virginia learned that their water was contaminated with c 8 and had been for years. Dupont has been in the ohio valley for 70 plus years and has been a tremendous employer he said. Even david and goliath tales often have complicated backstories and joyce knows well that such is the case with parkersburg and dupont. A new netflix documentary titled the devil we know tells the story of dupont s decades long cover up of the harm caused by chemicals used to make its popular non stick teflon products the film shows how the chemicals used to make teflon poisoned people and the environment not just in parkersburg west virginia where dupont had a teflon plant but all over the world.

The company knew that pfoa is toxic in 1961. Dupont and chemours co have agreed to pay 671 million in cash to settle thousands of lawsuits involving a leak of a toxic chemical used to make teflon the companies said on monday. Thus began an extremely long and contentious battle between robert and the people of parkersburg he was defending and the chemical mogul known as dupont. As in the tennant case dupont formed a team composed of its own scientists and scientists from the west virginia department of environmental protection.

Without question dupont was the place to work in the mid ohio valley for a lot of years. It announced a new threshold. According to salon which published a long form article about the case that we recommend reading the environmental protection agency got involved in the suit as well. The case centered around several communities in west virginia and southern ohio where a toxic chemical once used to make teflon had leached into the water supply.

The following is an excerpt from. In 1981 dupont found evidence of birth defects in babies born to female employees who worked in its west virginia plant and decides to pull female employees from. Dupont s washington works plant dupont began using pfoa to manufacture teflon at its washington works plant in 1951.