DuPont Agrees to Provide Less-toxic Water

[nosmokes]

i do believe the EPA should now be renamed the ENTERPRISE or ENTREPENEUR protection agency, cause they sure ain't doing a damn thing about protecting the environment or those of us that live in same.
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DuPont Agrees to Provide Less-toxic Water

by Catherine Komp

Nov. 27 – The drinking water for thousands of residents in Ohio and West Virginia might become less toxic under an agreement reached between chemical giant DuPont and the Environment Protection Agency.

DuPont agreed last week to either treat water contaminated by its West Virginia-based Washington Works facility or provide alternative drinking water to the public. The drinking water in the area near the plant is contaminated by the chemical perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), also called C8, used in the Teflon-manufacturing process. DuPont must also test other water supplies for contamination.

The company is already providing some residents with bottled water under a 2005 agreement reached in a civil lawsuit.
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DuPont, which has manufactured PFOA at its Washington Works plant since the 1950s, has steadfastly denied that the chemical is harmful to humans. The EPA has gradually issued stronger health warnings about the chemical, though it has yet to label it a "likely carcinogen" as some members of the agency's science advisory board have recommended.
© 2006 The NewStandard

[Sherman A1]

1. How considerate of them.....

Another example of good corporate citizenship :sarcasm:

[Ellis Wyatt]

2. great brand name

They should bottle it and sell it on the market. "Less Toxic Water". Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm