40亿美金和解PFAS永久化学品危害,DuPont, Chemours &Corteva ‘Forever Chemicals’
WASHINGTON – Today DuPont, Chemours and Corteva announced a cost-sharing agreement worth $4 billion to settle lawsuits involving the historic use of the highly toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS.
DuPont was for decades a leading U.S. manufacturer of PFAS chemicals, which it used to make Teflon and other nonstick products. Chemours was created in 2015 when DuPont spun off its chemical division, in part to limit liability relating to PFAS chemicals. Corteva, formerly the agricultural division of DowDuPont, was spun off in 2019.
Chemours sued DuPont in 2019, claiming that DuPont’s liability estimates were “spectacularly wrong.” The case was dismissed in 2020 over procedural issues.
The Environmental Working Group has documented the decades-long deception of chemical companies like DuPont burying the truth that PFAS build up in our blood and present risks to human health. EWG created a timeline that shows by the 1960s, animal studies conducted by DuPont revealed that PFAS chemicals could pose health risks.
“For decades, these corporations have knowingly contaminated our drinking water, food supplies and the blood of virtually every person on the planet with these highly toxic chemicals,” said Scott Faber, EWG’s senior vice president for government affairs. “It’s long past time that the polluters pay for their malicious drive toward profits over public health.”
The binding memorandum of understanding establishes an immediate cost-sharing arrangement, including an escrow account worth upward of $1 billion to cover potential future legacy PFAS liabilities from before the spinoff. Under the terms of the agreement, expenses will be split 50-50, with DuPont and Corteva responsible for half and Chemours responsible for the other half. Both companies have agreed to share the costs of certain qualified expenses over a period no longer than 20 years or an amount over $4 billion.
Separately, DuPont, Corteva and Chemours have agreed to settle ongoing matters in the multidistrict PFOA litigation in Ohio for $83 million. DuPont will contribute $27 million, Corteva will contribute $27 million and Chemours will contribute $29 million to the settlement. The agreement resolves approximately 95 pending cases as well as unfiled matters.
“We are pleased to be able to resolve these personal injury claims for our clients … in a way that provides compensation without the need for additional lengthy and expensive trials,” said Robert Bilott, an attorney with Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP who is co-lead counsel for plaintiffs in the Ohio litigation.
PFOA and other PFAS are called “forever chemicals” because they do not break down in the environment and are linked to cancer, reproductive and developmental harms, and reduced effectiveness of vaccines. PFAS discharged over the past 50 years by companies like DuPont will stay in the environment until actively remediated. PFAS contaminate over 2,300 sites in the U.S.
There are no federally enforceable limits on any PFAS in drinking water, groundwater or soils, or any requirements to clean up PFAS under the federal Superfund law. Only five states have placed drinking water limits on a handful of PFAS, and the EPA has the ability to test for only 29 PFAS in drinking water.
The feature film “Dark Waters” documents the real-life story of Bilott’s 20-year fight against DuPont’s contamination of the drinking water around Parkersburg, W.Va., with a PFAS chemical used to make Teflon. Bilott also published “Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer’s Twenty-Year Battle Against Dupont,” a riveting first-person account of how he revealed DuPont’s dumping of PFOA and the decades-long coverup of the health hazards of PFAS.
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The Environmental Working Group is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization that empowers people to live healthier lives in a healthier environment. Through research, advocacy and unique education tools, EWG drives consumer choice and civic action.
来源:https://www.ewg.org/release/dupont-chemours-and-corteva-reach-4-billion-settlement-forever-chemicals-lawsuits
化学品安全管理培训研讨会
Chemical Safety Management Workshop
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3/11-12/2021
课程主要的内容:
1. 危险化学品主要涉及的法规标准,行政许可操作流程
2. 企业开展化学品安全管理的总体要求和工作流程;
3. GHS和MSDS理论及实践全面应用
4. 危险化学品使用和存储场所安全设计
5. 危险化学品和危险货物的管理实践
谁应该参加
1. 厂长、营运经理、车间主任和生产主管;
2. EHS总监、EHS经理、安全主管和安全工程师;
3. 技术经理、研发经理、工程经理、生产经理、销售经理、采购经理和物流经理等
准备
1. 安全经验分享
2. 参加人员介绍/分组研讨会规则
3. 研讨会内容简介
第一部分:危险化学品安全管理实务
1. 危险化学品的定义和危险化学品主要涉及的法规标准解读
2. 危险化学品监管范围(进出口、经营、废弃处置、运输、储存、使用、生产)的办理、变更、延期等行政许可的具体内容和操作流程
3. 剧毒、易制毒、易制爆、重点监管的危险化学品、监控化学品等法规的要求和监管要求解读
4. 国际公约如斯德哥尔摩、鹿特丹公约、巴塞尔公约、蒙特利尔公约、汞公约等内容介绍
5. 企业开展化学品安全管理的总体要求和工作流程;
练习一:如何与国家要求的法规进行比对,看看自己的企业短缺的法规和专业知识
第二部分:最新GHS分类和标签规范解读
1. 最新GHS28类、106个类别的详细介绍
2. 混合物和纯物质分类的原则(如类推和架桥)原则解释
3. 化学品分类和危险性公示通则
4. 化学品安全技术说明书MSDS的内容、编制要求及16章节内在的逻辑关系
5. 如何通过MSDS资获取化学品的理化特性、职业暴露限制、生态毒理学数据、危险货物分类依据、危险货物允许的运输方式等
6. 如何通过MSDS的16章节的不同维度来解读MSDS上所提供的数据的正确性和可靠性
练习二:用氯化锌实例来解释如何按照GHS的要求做正确的分类
第三部分 最新MSDS编制和GHS标签介绍
1. 化学品标签的法定内容和编制要求
2. 化学品安全技术说明书和标签的正确应用
3. 化学品MSDS对后续工艺安全风险分析和反应矩阵分析的重要意义
4. 化学品标签对一线操作人的风险管控意义和鉴别
5. 化学品标签和运输标签的不同意义解读
练习三:用氢氧化钠MSDS来了解化学品的安全健康环境要求以及化学品标签所需要展示的内容;如何正确理解MSDS信息和化学品标签信息的对应关系。
第四部分:危险化学品使用和存储场所安全设计
1. 不同危险类别的厂房安全距离和总图布局要求
2. 不同危险类别的仓库的安全距离和总图布局要求
3. 不同危险类别的厂房防爆和消防安全设计要求
4. 不同危险类别的仓库防爆和消防安全设计要求
练习四:甲醇危化品厂房和仓库设计的要求讨论?
第五部分:危险化学品和危险货物的管理实践
1. 危险化学品理化特性、健康特性和环境特性的举例说明
2. 危险化学品在购买、运输、储存、使用和废弃处置各个环节的管理实践
3. 危险品运输车辆的技术装备和安全标志标识要求
4. 气瓶、实验室化学品存储柜的安全使用介绍
5. 常规化学品的PPE要求
6. 危险货物常规包装标志要求
练习五:氯气产品在购买、运输、储存、使用和废弃处置的法规要求和操作实践解读
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