Paxton, in his lawsuit, alleged that DuPont’s Teflon and 3M’s Scotchgard were among products that the companies sold to Texans while concealing “substantial risks from consumers and the State.” ...

In this series, Sharon Lerner exposes DuPont’s multi-decade cover-up of the severe harms to health associated with a chemical known as PFOA, or C8, and associated compounds such as PFOS and GenX.

Its Dec. 12 lawsuit in Salem County Superior Court involves the cleanup of the Chambers Work Site, where Teflon was invented in 1938. The site has been linked to cancer clusters in the area, which ...