Teflon Pollutes The World: Deadly Chemical Spreads Into Global Water Supplies

From Holland to Ohio, PFOA, the toxic key ingredient in Teflon, has spread into waterways and rivers from former DuPont factories.

Kit O'Connell
By Kit O'Connell
In this Jan. 21, 2016, file photo, Michael Hickey poses near Hoosick Falls municipal well 7 between two baseball fields in Hoosick Falls, N.Y. PFOA, long used in the manufacuring of Teflon pans, Gore-Tex jackets, ski wax, and many other products has turned up in the water in factory towns around the country like Hoosick Falls. Hickey, a local insurance underwriter, exposed the contamination in Hoosick Falls, a bucolic community near the Vermont state line. (AP/Mike Groll)

WILMINGTON, Delaware --- Earlier this month, climate and health activists from West Virginia and Ohio met with their Dutch counterparts to discuss the pollution caused by a chemical that was once a key ingredient in the non-stick coating Teflon. Members of Keep Your Promises, DuPont, a group targeting contamination caused by PFOA, also known as

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Approval Of Herbicide-Resistant Crops Means Massive Surge Of Chemical Herbicide Use On American Crops

Researchers say they have evidence that suggests the herbicide 2,4-D is contaminated with dioxin.

Carey L. Biron
By Carey L. Biron
A "Do Not Enter" sign marks a field of head cabbage during the spraying of pesticides near Chualar, Calif., Monday, Sept. 16, 2002. (AP Photo/Mike Fiala)

WASHINGTON --- Federal regulators are moving toward the deregulation of three new genetically engineered crops that, for the first time, would be resistant to multiple herbicides. These would include a potent chemical linked to a spectrum of environmental and human health hazards and previously used in the Vietnam War-era defoliant Agent

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DuPont v. Lorax: Chemical Giant Settles Suit Over Tree Deaths

Chemical giant DuPont has reached a class-action settlement over its sale of an herbicide that has been blamed for tree deaths across the country.

Trisha Marczak
By Trisha Marczak

Chemical giant DuPont has reached a class-action settlement over its sale of Imprelis, a herbicide that was once deemed an environmentally friendly way to combat weeds but has now been blamed for tree deaths across the country. Facing more than 45 class-action lawsuits alleging the company’s Imprelis was to blame for the widespread death of trees,

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