WV Supreme Court to Decide on Release of DuPont Documents
West Virginia's Supreme Court is slated to decide for a second time whether the public should see documents by DuPont Co. lawyers about the company's liability for pollution from the chemical C8.
C8, also known as perfluorooctanoic acid or PFOA, goes into manufacture of Teflon. It was unregulated for decades, and seeped into the drinking water of as many as 50,000 residents of Wood County, WV, who sued DuPont charging that it knew C8 harmed human health, but hid this information from the public. Full Story.
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