DuPont Gets Off Easy on Teflon Debacle

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DuPont Co. has agreed to pay $10.25 million in fines and $6.25 million for environmental projects to settle allegations by the Environmental Protection Agency that the company hid information about the dangers of a toxic chemical used to make the non-stick coating Teflon, officials said Wednesday.
The supplemental environmental projects involved in the settlement include funding for a research program to evaluate the potential for biodegradation of chemicals such as PFOA and funding for microchemistry and green chemistry programs in West Virginia schools.

How about a couple of bucks for people like me that have been frying eggs on this shit for 30 years??

"To date there is no human health effects that we know about that are caused by PFOA ... We've seen nothing," a DuPont spokesperson said. Under federal law, DuPont faced a potential fine of more than $300 million for not reporting that the chemical posed a substantial risk of injury to health or the environment.

They got off easy.


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