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* USA - Trucking in Trouble?: DuPont plant processing questionable chemical
MS,USA -The Biloxi Sun Herald, by MIKE KELLER/National Law Journal -Sep. 24, 2006: -- A global controversy is being trucked to Pascagoula, traveling some 1,100 miles in tanker trucks from New Jersey to DuPont's First Chemical Corporation plant daily. The trucks, if taking the shortest route, get to Jackson County after traversing seven states on as many as nine highways. For a long stretch on that route, drivers run in the shadow of the Appalachian Mountains... The trucks are hauling fluorotelomer alcohol, an ingredient in DuPont's line of surface-protection coatings. The alcohol is being brought from New Jersey to purify it of an unintended byproduct called perfluorooctanoic acid, also called PFOA or C8... The alcohol is pumped through a process DuPont officials said will chemically destroy about a thousand pounds of PFOA a year. Remnants of the impurity, totaling about two pounds a year, leave the plant through Pascagoula's municipal sewage lines and go to the Moss Point/Pascagoula wastewater-treatment plant... * Lawyers are consolidating 14 class-action lawsuits from 12 states into one to be heard at the U.S. District Court in Des Moines, Iowa. The suit, which could be worth $5 billion and represent 10 million cookware users, alleges DuPont failed to warn consumers about dangers of using Teflon-coated cookware at certain temperatures... * According to a report in the DuPont representatives said the case has no merit...
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