“DuPont Loses Bellwether C8 Teflon Case,” By American Council on Science and Health.
Professor David Freeman, Chair of Petroleum Engineering at Marietta College, has been awarded $5.1 million in a lawsuit against DuPont, which he blames for his testicular cancer. A jury of four women and three men in the U.S. District Court in Columbus agreed with him, and said the company acted with malice because it dumped water containing what it calls C8 (perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA) into the Ohio River from its Washington Works plant near Parkersburg, West Virginia. Read more.
Teflon Decision More Emotional than Scientific
July 12, 2016
