DuPont saw the potential too, so they trademarked the material in 1944.
- DuPont scientists are the first people on the planet to say what would be a safe level for humans.
DuPont dumped the C8 in the water supplies in communities in Ohio and West Virginia.
But DuPont struggled to produce enough Teflon to meet the military's demand.
And DuPont 's presence was felt everywhere.
and DuPont just came up with a safe dose for drinking water.
because DuPont separated its entire Teflon business into a spinoff company, Chemours, that agreed to use a different chemical.
And DuPont had known since the '60s about the harm of C8.
But DuPont has actually spun off all this liability.
- But then DuPont was like, "Listen, we have this seemingly indestructible chemical, right?
3M and DuPont were worried, so they checked their own workers' blood, and they found that they too were contaminated with C8
And when DuPont checked their medical records, many of these workers were showing signs of liver disease.
- So Rob sued DuPont again, now on behalf of the 70,000 people around Parkersburg who were unwittingly exposed to C8.
And those people sued DuPont .
This is the Mocha DuPont .
from Madame Dupont , who lived next door.
called agribusiness Monsanto in dupont who brought us Agent Orange and stain-resistant carpet control ninety
- Slip-Away contains the magic of DuPont 's Teflon.
I do not work for the DuPont company, but I have seen how their people have done much for the cultural growth of this community.
- And likely no one outside of DuPont would've noticed something was wrong if it was not for...
So my dad worked for DuPont his whole life.
But I worked a lot with DuPont , and last week Ellen Kullman resigned, was fired, draw your own conclusion, but it's a real sad thing because she
conservative democratic financiers including the DuPont family.
They were mostly made by the DuPont Chemical Company which in fact had made most of these different kinds of materials as isomers or slight variations of a fundamental chemistry
He talked about being a DuPonter.
But luckily his employer, DuPont , they were actually working with the US Army on the Manhattan Project.
And to do that, DuPont needed help.
- And DuPont knew exactly how to market it.
- And the landfill that pipe was draining from belonged to DuPont 's massive factory complex outside of Parkersburg, West Virginia, just six miles away.
- DuPont took care of the community.
In 1962, DuPont redid the study and confirmed that high doses of C8 kill rats through injury to the stomach, intestine,
Meanwhile, DuPont was dumping almost 10 tons of C8 into the Ohio River each year, and they were piling up thousands more tons
- DuPont collected samples around Washington Works, and C8 wasn't just in the river, it was in the public water supply.
So in 1984, DuPont officials met to assess whether C8 should be swapped for a safer chemical.
And all throughout, DuPont denied any wrongdoing, but that wasn't the end of it for Parkersburg or anyone else
Alcoa, Dupont , and we want to be the benchmark safest company to work for.
Ain Moore was a 25-year HR veteran at Dupont Medical Systems she said
It did take very powerful rich people like the DuPonts and so on turning against Prohibition to make people realize, to help people realize, that these were dumb laws.
By the late 1990s, researchers at DuPont took the genes that code for spider silk proteins and put them into E. coli and yeast.
In 1936, a chemical company called DuPont set out to find a safer alternative to the gases used in fridges, one that was neither toxic nor flammable.
Under the army's order, DuPont ramped up Teflon production at their test plant in Arlington, New Jersey, giving their whole supply to the government.
- I never saw the kinds of things I was seeing now in these documents from DuPont .
- And after determining its own safety metric, DuPont tested the landfill wastewater leaching into Earl's creek.
And just a few months later, DuPont settled with Earl Tennant and his family for an undisclosed sum, although they didn't admit to any wrongdoing.
This is exactly what Rob had to find out to have a fighting chance against DuPont .
the large chemical companies like Dow, DuPont or Archer Daniels Midland can take very very dense cellulosic material and make it into.
Dupont , the chemical company, is an example of one that actually set a 6 billion dollar revenue goal by 2015 for products that are built around
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agriculture exports to other countries so literally they are the marketing arm for Monsanto and DuPont and ADM and all these big huge companies.
And since there were eight carbons in the chain, DuPont also referred to the acid as C8.