October 4, 2006
3-M Corporation used to produce the PFOA (Teflon) components in their Cottage Grove, Minn., plant until 2000 when they elected to get out of the PFOA business.
September 16, 2006
Lake Elmo households have now been advised by the Minnesota Department of Health to use bottled water for drinking and cooking a figure that has jumped nearly 19 times since the department's first such recommendation.
September 14, 2006
The caution signal went up when the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality took action against DuPont's First Chemical plant in Pascagoula.
April 27, 2006
3M Co. agreed Tuesday to pay a $1.5 million penalty to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for 244 violations of the Toxic Substances Control Act for using unsafe chemicals in its products, according to media reports.
April 18, 2006
Drinking water supplies near a DuPont facility in New Jersey have been contaminated with chemicals, including a suspected carcinogen used in the production of Teflon, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday.
March 21, 2006
Nonstick technology is, demonstrably, everywhere. Its in the process that makes frying pans slippery. Its in the way carpeting and clothing shed stains.
March 11, 2006
Tissue of some fish taken from the Mississippi River near 3M Co.'s Cottage Grove plant contains high levels of two controversial industrial chemicals that were once made at the plant and dumped into the river.
February 16, 2006
A group of scientific advisers to the Environmental Protection Agency voted unanimously Wednesday to approve a recommendation that a chemical used in the manufacture of Teflon and other nonstick and stain-resistant products should be considered a likely carcinogen.
February 6, 2006
PFOA is the most common chemical you've never heard of. Until now. Thanks to recent reports about its prevalence in the environment and its potential for causing health problems.
January 31, 2006
Although it appeared some progress was being made with respect to the possibility that PFOA would eventually be banned in the United States.