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# Don't let DuPont get away with this
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/dupont_0506150930/
- Published: 2015-05-06T22:28:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T16:22:04.000Z
- Description: An EWG petition drive over C-8, or PFOA, the Teflon ingredient that drew a record $16.5 million EPA fine against DuPont in 2005 for a decades-long cover-up. EWG says that a decade on, DuPont has not cleaned up water supplies and is fighting damages in court.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Environment, Health News, #vivvo-import

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| **DuPont is putting corporate profits ahead of human and environmental health, with disastrous consequences.**[**Help us hold the chemical giant accountable for its actions. Sign EWG’s petition today and tell DuPont to keep its promises to the victims of C-8.**](http://action.ewg.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=P6xc7Y5kGHbflgmiIv9%2FRfKf9R88ZZ7E&ref=foodconsumer.org) |
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We can’t let DuPont get away with this.

After spearheading one of the most extensive cover-ups in recent history, the chemical giant is now trying to shield itself from liability and escape its responsibilities to the thousands of victims left ill by its neglect.

Here’s what you need to know:

- **In 2005, the Environmental Protection Agency fined chemical giant DuPont a record $16.5 million for a decades-long cover-up of the health hazards of its product, C-8, also known as PFOA.** One of a family of perfluorinated chemicals, or PFCs, C-8 was a key ingredient in making Teflon, the non-stick, waterproof, stain-resistant “miracle of modern chemistry” used in thousands of household products.
- **DuPont knew that C-8 caused cancer, poisoned drinking water in the Mid-Ohio River Valley and polluted the blood of people and animals worldwide** – but it never told its workers, local officials and residents, state regulators or the EPA!
- Today, 10 years after the EPA took action, DuPont has failed to clean up water supplies, is shirking its promise to monitor the health of the communities it poisoned and is gearing up to fight in court against paying damages to its victims.
- **While C-8/PFOA will no longer be used in the U.S. by the end of this year, DuPont and other companies continue to use related chemicals that may not be much – if at all – safer.** These next-generation PFCs are used to make greaseproof food wrappers, waterproof and stain-repellent clothing, and countless other products.

**We must put a stop to this secrecy right now and bring justice to the victims of DuPont.**

[**Click here to sign EWG’s petition and demand that DuPont keeps it promises to its victims in the Mid-Ohio Valley and beyond.**](http://action.ewg.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=7S%2FmvDJkzyqpnLR5g0MOSfKf9R88ZZ7E&ref=foodconsumer.org)

The EPA classifies C-8 as a “probable human carcinogen.” Exposure to it is associated with several serious diseases, including kidney cancer, testicular cancer, thyroid disease, ulcerative colitis and high cholesterol.

We may never truly know how many victims have fallen ill due to DuPont’s careless use of C-8 and other chemicals, but it is far too many. And every one of those victims deserves justice.

**Don’t let DuPont get away with trying to skirt the consequences of its toxic responsibilities and legacy in Parkersburg. EWG – and the victims of DuPont – need you to take action today.**

[**Sign the petition: Tell DuPont to stop the secrecy and keep its promises to its victims!**](http://action.ewg.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=wxyWGw%2FpWBmUl2OKyCyh4vKf9R88ZZ7E&ref=foodconsumer.org)

Thanks for standing up for the victims of DuPont. Together, we’ll make sure justice is served.

\- EWG Action Alert

[Contribute](http://action.ewg.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=MxEUqdzapIeS12NfU2fiUvKf9R88ZZ7E&ref=foodconsumer.org)