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Rob Bilott Book Launch Meet and Greet
Events
6 Oct 2019
The Green Science Policy Institute is hosting a book party to launch Rob Bilott's new book Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle against Dupont.
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Federal judge’s ruling allows class action suit against PFAS makers to proceed
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3 Oct 2019 | EWG Press Release
This class action includes every U.S. resident with detectable levels of PFAS chemicals in their blood and who have claimed they have been injured as a result of being exposed.
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EPA allowed companies to make 40 new PFAS chemicals despite serious risks
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19 Sep 2019 | The Intercept
Despite their dangers, at least 15 of these 40 PFAS compounds that were the subject of substantial risk reports are not only on the most recent list of compounds in active use but also are produced in very large quantities.
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DuPont looks to kill $4B chemours liability-offloading suit
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18 Sep 2019 | Law 360
DuPont is asking a court to end a $4 billion suit by spinoff Chemours over ballooning environmental liabilities.
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Chemical company execs come under fire at congressional hearing on PFAS
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18 Sep 2019 | North Carolina Health News
For the first time, executives from Chemours, DuPont and 3M were called before a U.S. House environmental oversight committee to discuss their accountability in the PFAS contamination plaguing North Carolina and the country.
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EWG Investigates – The science on PFAS: Rebuttal to 3M’s claims
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12 Sep 2019 | EWG
EWG’s Science Investigations Team's response to 3M downplaying the risks of PFAS.
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Companies deny responsibility for toxic ‘forever chemicals’ contamination
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11 Sep 2019 | The Guardian
The 3M Company, the Chemours Company and DuPont appeared before lawmakers over PFAS. Denise Rutherford, senior vice-president of corporate affairs for 3M, argued the chemicals pose no human health threats at current levels and have no victims, conflicting with a large body of research and 3M’s own internal documents.
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Denmark just became the first country to ban PFAS 'forever chemicals' from food packaging
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4 Sep 2019 | CNN
Under Denmark's new regulation food packaging, for example, baking paper, and microwave popcorn bags will be required to be manufactured without any PFAS.
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Chemours submits reports, PFAS reduction proposal
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29 Aug 2019 | Bladen Journal
There are seven recommended actions to be taken, four to be completed within two years and three that will take up to five years to complete.
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Maine dairy farmer’s blood tests high for ‘forever chemicals’ from toxic sludge
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16 Aug 2019 | York County Coast Star
Blood tests performed on Arundel dairy farmer Fred Stone show levels of the “forever chemicals” 20 times the national average more than two years after he and his wife stopped drinking the milk and water on the farm.
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Exclusive: Maker of 'forever chemicals' cuts food packaging products
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9 Aug 2019 | Politico
Chemours has quietly stopped making some non-stick coatings used in disposable food packaging.
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DuPont says N.J. toxic mess caused by U.S. government ordering chemicals for WW1 and WW2
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5 Aug 2019 | NJ Advance Media
In court filings, the company says the federal government ordered millions of pounds of chemicals to be produced at four sites across New Jersey during the two World Wars. Because that work was done under a federal contract, DuPont argues that it does not have liability in recent lawsuits filed against the company by New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal.
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Next President must address water crisis
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1 Aug 2019 | The Detroit News
While they are in our state, the presidential candidates will be surrounded by the Great Lakes. But despite being surrounded by the world’s largest freshwater supply in the world, the sad irony is that right now in Michigan, many families don’t have access to clean drinking water in their homes.
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Notes from the Field: Targeted Biomonitoring for GenX and Other Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Following Detection of Drinking Water Contamination - North Carolina, 2018
Science
26 Jul 2019 | MMWR Morb. Mortal. Wkly. Rep.
Biomonitoring of 837 private well and select owners for the presence of GenX and 17 other common PFAS, due to exposure by manufacturing facilities.
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Corporations behind toxic ‘forever chemicals’ spend big as lawmakers seek to crack down
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25 Jul 2019 | E.A. Crunden
Manufacturers of toxic nonstick chemicals are ramping up lobbying efforts in the face of heightened lawmaker scrutiny of the products.