A bill that proponents describe as a first step to regulate so-called “Teflon” chemicals found in products like cookware, rain jackets and waterproof shoes has passed in the Senate and is expected to ...

Manufacturers DuPont and 3M kept their knowledge secret, taking a page from the tobacco industry, a new study reveals.

U.S. EPA’s clampdown on chemicals used to make Teflon cookware, plastics and fabrics is likely to take a long time. U.S. EPA’s clampdown on chemicals used to make Teflon cookware, plastics and fabrics ...

Teflon and similar chemicals may be contributing to the buildup of a pollutant in the environment that could threaten certain plant life, scientists reported yesterday. While the pollutant -- ...

A corporate dispute over environmental cleanup liability — now made public through documents unsealed in state court — has residents near a historic DuPont chemical plant worried if any company will, ...

Home cooks across America are suddenly questioning the safety of their most trusted kitchen companions. The cookware sitting in cabinets nationwide may harbor invisible chemical risks that experts ...

A controversial chemical used by DuPont Co. to make the nonstick substance Teflon poses more of a cancer risk than indicated in a draft assessment by the Environmental Protection Agency, an ...

Forty years ago, when the news cameras arrived to Niagara Falls to film the pollution crisis happening in my neighborhood, I had no clue a group of women in upstate New York eventually would spark a ...

DOVER, Del. — A group of scientific advisers to the Environmental Protection Agency voted unanimously Wednesday to approve a recommendation that a chemical used in the manufacture of Teflon and other ...

The company DuPont has agreed to pay $10 million in fines for not reporting safety data about one if its chemicals to the government. The chemical is called PFOA, is used to make Teflon and does not ...

The Environmental Protection Agency reaches an agreement with DuPont, which makes Teflon for pans and other products. The company will reduce emissions of PFOA, a long-lived chemical used in the ...