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...settle a lawsuit brought by some 50,000 people who lived along the Ohio River near its West Virginia plant. They claimed PFOA contamination had caused birth defects and other health problems. The company admitted no liability but in December 2005 made a settlement with the EPA based on eight violations for failing to disclose its own findings on the safety of PFOA. This April, hearings began in a class action against the company by nonstick-cookware users from 15 states. In January, an EPA advisory board labeled PFOA a likely human carcinogen...
...EPA has since asked DuPont and seven other companies that use PFOA to phase out the chemical. Although DuPont disputes the classification as a carcinogen and won't stop making Teflon, the company has pledged that by 2015, it will reduce the amount of PFOA used to make the coating and will guarantee that the chemical won't be released into the environment from DuPont manufacturing plants...
...spite of all this, the agency website says, "At the present time, EPA does not believe there is any reason for consumers to stop using any consumer or industrial related products that contain PFOA." That's under normal use. You should not heat an empty nonstick pan to high temperatures or risk destabilizing the surface by plunging a hot pan into cold water, nor should you use nonstick pans for cooking at very high temperatures in general...
...tapers off after Labor Day. And thanks to a presidential directive, the crude is flowing; 30 million bbl. from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is being loaned to companies like Exxon. In addition, foreign producers in 25 countries have pledged another 30 million bbl. of crude and refined product. The EPA is allowing sales of less stringently refined fuel, and President Bush is permitting foreign vessels to ferry oil and gas between U.S. ports (suspending a law prohibiting such transport...
Carol M. Browner, the longest serving administrator in the history of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), spoke about the dangers of climate change in a speech yesterday that combined science and policy with frequent jabs at critics of the science behind climate change. Speaking to a crowd of 75 at Harvard Law School’s Hauser Hall, Browner, the EPA chief during the entire Clinton administration, said that if “we don’t take action against climate change, we risk being the first generation to pass on to the next generation a problem that...