Teflon Chemical Documentary Film: The Devil We Know

I was part of the audience at the showing of "The Devil We Know" which is a 2018 Sundance Film documentary about the chemical pollution by DuPont (3M and other companies are also implicated) of the water in the Ohio River starting back in the last midcentury.


This chemical, C8, or Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) lasts indefinitely in the environment, as basically nothing breaks it down. With

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