Bibliograph

Exposure, poisoned water, corporate greed, and one lawyer's twenty-year battle against DuPont, Robert Bilott with Tom Shroder

Type

Label

Exposure, poisoned water, corporate greed, and one lawyer's twenty-year battle against DuPont, Robert Bilott with Tom Shroder

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Exposure

Oclc number

1121183510

Responsibility statement

Robert Bilott with Tom Shroder

Sub title

poisoned water, corporate greed, and one lawyer's twenty-year battle against DuPont

Summary

In 1998, Bilott was a lawyer specializing in helping big corporations stay on the right side of environmental regulations. He received a call from a West Virginia farmer, Earl Tennant, who was convinced the creek on his property was being poisoned by runoff from a DuPont landfill. Bilott agreed to help Tennant, and discovered documents going back fifty years on the harmful effects of the man-made chemical PFOA (one of a class of chemicals called PFAS) used in making Teflon. Now virtually every person on the planet has been exposed to PFOA-- and carries the chemical in his or her blood. -- adapted from jacket

Table Of Contents

Act 1. The farmer: Dry run ; The call ; Parkersburg ; The farm ; The secret ingredient ; Paper trail ; The scientist ; The letter ; The meeting ; The cows come home ; The settlement -- Act 2. The town: Crossroads ; First blood ; Privileged ; Alternative data ; Appetite for destruction ; Of mouse and man ; Teflon pawns ; Actual malice ; Hail Mary ; Narrative warfare ; Epidemiology ; "No known human health effects" ; Corporate knowledge ; The perfect storm ; The big idea -- Act 3. The world: The study ; The second wave ; Dark science ; Burden of proof ; Shaken ; Road to a reckoning ; The trial ; The reckoning -- Epilogue

Target audience

adult

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