What risks does the PFOA liability pose to DuPont's future performance? The ongoing PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid) liability remains a significant concern for DuPont. Despite efforts to address ...

A team of scientists (including this article's co-author) investigated previously secret internal industry documents from 3M and DuPont, the largest makers of forever chemicals PFOA and PFOS.

ONE OF THOSE CLAIMS THAT GORE KNEW ABOUT THE DANGERS OF PFOA BY 1990 AT THE LATEST, WHEN ONE OF DUPONT’S SCIENTISTS TOOK HIS YEARS OF KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE WORKING WITH PFOA ISSUES AT DUPONT ...

In this series, Sharon Lerner exposes DuPont’s multi-decade cover-up of the severe harms to health associated with a chemical known as PFOA, or C8, and associated compounds such as PFOS and GenX.

That was part of the district’s settlement with DuPont of a lawsuit over the presence of C8, also known as perfluorooctanoic acid or PFOA, in local water supplies. Chemours was spun off from ...