DuPont Pays $16 Million Over Teflon Allegations
By Jaimee Wolbert
Published on December 14, 2005
The maker of Teflon, E.I. DuPont Nemours & Co., has agreed to pay more than $10 million in fines and $6 million in environmental protection projects over reports about the toxicity of the product.
The Environmental Protection Agency alleged that the Dover, Delaware company withheld information about the health and environmental risks associated with the non-stick pan coating.
A spokesperson for the EPA stated that the settlement was the largest civil administrative penalty under any federal environmental statute that the agency has ever obtained.
Legal counsel for DuPont, which did not make an admission of liability in the settlement, claimed that the company continued to stand behind the safety of its product.
Earlier this year, DuPont reached a $107 million class-action settlement with residents near their Ohio and West Virginia plants over similar Teflon safety concerns.
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