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9781432878290
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Bilott, Robert,
1965-
Exposure
[Large Type Book] :
poisoned water, corporate greed, and one lawyer's twenty-year battle against DuPont /
Robert Bilott with Tom Shroder.
Large print ed.
[Farmington Hills, Mich :
Thorndike Press/Gale,
2020.
©2019.
617 p. (large print) ;
23 cm.
Thorndike Press large print biography and memoir
"In 1998, Rob Bilott began a legal battle against DuPont that would consume the next twenty years of his life, uncovering the worst case of environmental contamination in modern history and a corporate cover-up that put the health of hundreds of thousands of people at risk. Representing a single farmer who was convinced the creek on his property had been poisoned by runoff from a nearby DuPont landfill, Rob ultimately discovers the truth about PFAS--unregulated, toxic chemicals used in the manufacturing of Teflon and a host of other household goods. DuPont's own scientists had issued internal warnings for years about the harmful effects of PFAS on human health, but the company continued to allow these chemicals to leach into public drinking water. Until Rob forced them to face the consequences. Exposure is an unforgettable legal drama about malice and manipulation, the failings of environmental regulation, and one lawyer's quest to expose the truth about this previously unknown--and still unregulated--chemical that presents one of the greatest human health crises of the 21st century"--Provided by the publisher.
20200504.
Bilott, Robert
1965-
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company
Trials, litigation, etc.
Trials (Toxic torts)
West Virginia.
Liability for hazardous substances pollution damages
West Virginia.
Perfluorooctanoic acid
Law and legislation
United States.
Environmental lawyers
Ohio
Biography.
Shroder, Tom.
Thorndike Press large print biography and memoir.
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