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 ...

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 -- ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to list a toxic chemical used to make Teflon alongside such well-known persistent pollutants as mercury, lead and PCBs, signaling increasing alarm about ...

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 ...

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

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 nonstick and ...