Jury finds DuPont guilty of dumping cancer-causing Teflon chemicals into Ohio River that spread across the globe, causing widespread illness and death

‘One resident of the mid-Ohio Valley is finally seeing some glimpses of justice the way it was meant to be after chemical giant DuPont was ordered to pay $5.1 million in damages for polluting the Ohio River with C-8, a persistent chemical compound used in Teflon pans that’s injured and killed untold thousands of people — and in this person’s case, gave him testicular cancer.
The jury that heard the case presented on behalf of the plaintiff by “America’s Lawyer” Mike Papantonio unanimously agreed that DuPont demonstrated “conscious disregard” for human health by routinely dumping C-8 into the Ohio River during the manufacture of Teflon pans — and we now know that C-8 has since circulated globally, contaminating oceans, lakes, and other waterways throughout the world.’
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