DuPont

:This article is about the DuPont company. For the other uses of DuPont, see Dupont (disambiguation).

Criticisms

In 1941, an investigation of Standard Oil Co. and IG Farben also brought new evidence concerning complex price and marketing agreements between DuPont, a major investor in and producer of leaded gasoline, U.S. Industrial Alcohol Co. and their subsidiary, Cuba Distilling Co. The investigation was eventually dropped, like dozens of others in many different kinds of industries, due to the need to enlist industry support in the war effort.

Related Topics:
Standard Oil - IG Farben

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DuPont is an inventor of CFCs and the largest producer of ozone depleting chemicals in the world. DuPont sells $3 billion in CFCs worldwide. In 1987, Du Pont campaigned against effective controls on the use of CFCs. On April 27, 1992 Du Pont announced that "we will stop selling CFC's as soon as possible," but only in the "US and other developed countries." The chemical industry plans to replace CFCs with a new generation of chemicals, such as HCFCs and HFCs.

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CFC - Ozone - HCFC - HFC

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In June 1999, in West Virginia, the Tennant family sued DuPont for accidentally killing 280 Hereford cows with C-8, a proven animal carcinogen. DuPont was dumping the chemical in a landfill for nonhazardous waste. The chemical leaked into Dry Run Creek, where the cows drank it. The Tennants settled. As part of the settlement, the Tennants were forbidden to discuss the case. The local drinking water was also contaminated with the C-8. Up to 50,000 residents of the mid-Ohio Valley started a class-action lawsuit against DuPont. They claim that DuPont knew that C-8 was in the public water supply since 1984, but never informed the community. DuPont says the amount of C-8 is too low to raise health concerns, and that they met their reporting obligations.

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West Virginia - C-8 - Carcinogen - Ohio - Class-action lawsuit

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The EPA is researching how C-8 has entered the bloodstream of much of the country?s population. Blood-bank samples from across the U.S. are being looked at. This investigation seeks to determine if DuPont violated federal law by not informing the EPA years ago.

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On May 26, 2003, ammonium perfluorooctanoate or APFO (used to produce Teflon and similar products) was found in groundwater near a North Carolina DuPont plant. The chemical leaked from a cement cistern the company wasn't using.

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Teflon - North Carolina

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Based on the revelations made by Smedley Butler in 1933, the DuPont corporation has also been implicated in the Business Plot, or The Plot Against FDR. This alleged failed coup attempt was said to be a conspiracy of moneyed interests intended to strip President Franklin D. Roosevelt of his political power as a reaction against the New Deal

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Smedley Butler - 1933 - Business Plot - Coup - Franklin D. Roosevelt - New Deal

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Some conspiracy theorists surmise that cannabis sativa was made illegal because the fibres from the hemp plant, used for fabrics and ropes, were in strong competition with DuPont's nylon, a newly develloped fiber at the time. Since hemp cannot be used as a drug, but was made illegal along with cannabis sativa, it has been said that the inclusion of cannabis sativa into the same category of substances as heroin was made purposefully in order to destroy the hemp industry, therefore promoting nylon production.

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Conspiracy theorists - Cannabis sativa - Hemp - Fabric - Rope

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