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How many times a day do you drink water? Cook with it? Brush your teeth with it? Offer some to your children?

Last year, the Environmental Protection Agency reported that 1 percent of samples from public drinking water systems nationwide were contaminated with PFOA, a nonstick chemical formerly used to make...

When it comes to PFOA, an extremely potent toxic chemical formerly used to make Teflon, President Trump's nominee to oversee chemical safety at the Environmental Protection Agency has a sticky history...

Three hormone-disrupting chemicals commonly added to processed foods, waterproof clothing and other everyday products may cause obesity.

Michael Dourson, President Trump's expected nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency's chemical safety office, has made a career of helping industry stave off or weaken regulations on toxic...

This week, EWG released two reports.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on any given day one in three American children – no matter their age, race or family income – eat fast food. Hamburgers, french fries...

Banning or restricting toxic chemicals one at a time is like fighting the mythical hydra: For each head cut off, multiple replacements appear that may be just as hazardous. There's no better example...

Fluorine-based chemicals that can cause cancer, developmental toxicity and numerous other detrimental health effects have contaminated the drinking water of millions of Americans, and the blood of...

A federal jury ordered DuPont to pay more than $5 million to an Ohio man who alleged he contracted testicular cancer from drinking water contaminated with a toxic chemical formerly used to make Teflon...

One in every four American newborns consumes formula from birth. Around two-thirds of these babies drink some formula by the time they are three months old.

Drinking water supplies serving more than 5.2 million Americans may be contaminated with two perfluorinated chemicals, or PFCs, at levels higher than the Environmental Protection Agency now deems safe...

Today the Environmental Protection Agency issued a long-awaited drinking water health advisory for the perfluorinated chemicals PFOA and PFOS. But EPA's advisory falls far short of what's needed to...

The Environmental Protection Agency was first alerted 15 years ago to contamination of drinking water by PFOA, a chemical used to make Teflon that has since been linked to cancer, hormone disruption...

On this day in 1938, a DuPont chemist named Roy J. Plunkett in Deepwater, N.J., accidentally discovered polytetrafluoroethylene, a slippery substance remarkably resistant to water, grease and stains...

The bad news about a toxic chemical used to make Teflon keeps getting worse.

Perfluorinated compounds, or PFCs – the class of chemicals used in DuPont's Teflon, 3M's Scotchgard and many other products – pollute the bodies of people and animals in every corner of the world. In...

Children born to mothers who were exposed during pregnancy to higher levels of PFOA, the non-stick chemical DuPont formerly used to make Teflon, tend to put on more weight and do so more quickly than...

A federal jury on Wednesday (Oct. 7) found DuPont liable for causing an Ohio woman's kidney cancer by poisoning her drinking water with a chemical used to make Teflon. The jurors ordered the company...

More than 15 years after an attorney investigating mysterious cattle deaths in Parkersburg, W. Va., discovered that DuPont had polluted the area's drinking water with a carcinogenic chemical used to...