AMY GOODMAN: That’s the trailer for Dark Waters, based on the work of attorney Rob Bilott, who’s joining us now from Los Angeles. With a combination of innovative litigation, scientific understanding, and extraordinary perseverance, he has achieved one of the most significant victories for environmental law and corporate accountability of this century. Representing 70,000 victims: Bilott’s landmark case. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. The film tells the story of attorney Rob Bilott’s 20-year battle with DuPont over contaminated drinking water in West Virginia from toxic chemicals used to make Teflon. Written by Bilott and published by Atria Books/Simon & Schuster, “Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer’s Twenty-Year Battle against DuPont,” provides an inside look at Bilott’s personal and professional journey through the litigation that uncovered the global PFOA contamination crisis. They have all the money, all the firepower. However, Bilott and his legal team convinced the representatives of the victims that only those who agreed to have blood samples taken and medical tests done would receive their share of the money. Like the Pacific Gas case, this book was written by the lawyer who took on the corporate giant – DuPont. There's a problem loading this menu right now. DuPont ceased production and use of PFOA in 2013. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. TIM ROBBINS: And, you know, Rob, maybe you want to talk about that. Please try again. Even Better than the Movie! to your inbox each morning. Irénée du Pont avait noté que l'industrie en Amérique du Nord suivait ce qui se passait en Europe. “I hope that both my book and the movie will help increase awareness and understanding of the true nature and scope of this problem, and finally prompt action to effectively protect public health and the environment.”. Bilott and his wife, Sarah, now reside in Crescent Springs, Ky. His sister and brother-in-law, Beth and Terry Lieberman, live in Xenia. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. I had no idea of the scope of this issue...and I thank the author, not only for giving me the story to read, but for his patience and tireless efforts over so many years to expose this issue and cause lasting change. Some are designed for application in consumer products, whereas others are used in industrial processes. Il anticipe alors un marché pour son activité de fabrication de poudre à canon. In 1998, Robert Bilott was a 33-year-old Cincinnati lawyer on the verge of making partner when his career and life took an unforeseen turn. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. And hopefully we can require a independent scientific study to confirm exactly what this broad group of chemicals will do to us. The book balances the intellectual rigors of the legal process with the personal and social aspects of the case behind it. In August 2001, he filed a class-action suit against DuPont, on behalf of almost 70,000 people in the Parkersburg area who had been drinking water contaminated with PFOA. And they’ll use it. When he got his graduation degree from Fairborn High School he almost attends 8 schools. Practices. TIM ROBBINS: Well, I wanted to mention where we’re going to be on tour with The New Colossus. 1202 Geneva, Switzerland. La société se développe rapidement et, au milieu du XIXe siècle, devient le plus gros fournisseur de poudre de l'armée américaine, en fournissant la moitié de sa poudre pendant la guerre civile américaine. Maison de la Paix Robert Bilott, a Cincinnati attorney who took on DuPont for contaminating water with toxic forever chemicals, is portrayed by Mark Ruffalo in “Dark Waters,” which premiered here last week. So, tons of this chemical were being used at the plant, emitted out into the environment, into the air, into the water, into the soils in the surrounding community, and sent to facilities all over the country and all over the world that used this product in making a wide variety of consumer products, not just cookware — stain-resistant clothing, fabric coatings, microwave popcorn bags, stain-resistant materials of all kinds, fast-food wrappers, you name it. 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