DuPont Investor Coalition Cites Reinstatement of Racketeering Case Against DuPont As Echoing Concealment Risks on Teflon Chemical
DuPont Shareholders for Fair Value (DSFV), a group of investors concerned with financial impacts of DuPont’s use of C8 (also known as PFOA), a chemical associated with Teflon and with grease and stain repellants, responded today to a decision by a federal appeals court in San Francisco to reinstate racketeering suits that charge DuPont with hiding ...... more

Steelworkers Union Requests Information Citing DuPont’s Past Mismanagement of the Savannah River Nuclear Weapon’s Facility in South Carolina
The United Steelworkers (USW) has filed an extensive information request under the Freedom of Information Act from the Department of Energy concerning accidents, security breaches, radiation releases and other environmental contamination that occurred during the DuPont Company’s 1954 to 1989 operation of the Savannah River Site (SRS), a nuclear weapons ...... more

DuPont Investor Coalition Flags Major Regulatory Risk on PFOA Identified in New DuPont Quarterly Report
The following statement is from DuPont Shareholders for Fair Value: In its quarterly shareholder report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday, EI DuPont de Nemours (NYSE:DD) noted that $1 billion in annual revenues could be at stake in the event of regulatory restraints on the use of the chemical PFOA. The company notes in its ...... more

Union Contacts U.S. Paper Companies Regarding Use of Controversial DuPont Chemical
Citing worker and consumer safety concerns, the nation's largest industrial union, the-United Steelworkers (USW),-has launched an initial inquiry into the use of a Teflon-related chemical by hundreds of food packaging and other paper manufacturers across the country. Boyd Young, president of the Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers ...... more

DuPont Investor Report Says Chemical Giant Falls Short of Full Disclosure on Teflon-Related Costs
Shareholders Coalition to DuPont Co. “Tear Down This Wall of Silence” The DuPont Co. has a failed record of providing investors with crucial information about hidden costs in the production and use of controversial Teflon-related chemicals, according to a report released by a shareholder coalition. “In a company where ethics are pounded into line workers, ...... more