As EWG Details Industry’s PFAS Findings, DuPont Fortifies Cleanup Pledges

August 29, 2019
Environmentalists have compiled a suite of documents that could bolster a House Democrat’s suggestion that chemical companies continued to produce and sell per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances’ (PFAS) despite knowing the health risks just as one of those companies, DuPont, is strengthening its pledge to remediate any contamination and curb risks. The Environmental Working Group (EWG) Aug. 28 released a dossier of documents that the group says chronicle decades of studies that PFAS manufacturers DuPont and 3M undertook but kept out...


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