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. The Lawyer Who Became DuPonts Worst Nightmare Rob Bilott was a corporate defense attorney for eight years. Then he took on an¡Ä, Portrait, Ny times, Environmental issues. A criminal investigation of the CEO of DuPont was dropped in 2006. We can go back to Plum Island NY 1992 a decontamination site restricted from public use. Further back to Love Canal NY 1978 a decontamination site restricted from public use. Forty years of the same pattern of corporate activity I would expect the worst is to follow.

I got paranoid and went and asked mom to throw all cookware except stainless ones she said get out of my kitchen. Ã??ã??ã?¯ã??ã?üüã?ã??ã?¿ã??ã?º movie database. We need to boycott Dupont and 3M for creating C8 and now Dupont is making Gen X which is just as bad if not worse and their dumping it in our water table to this day. and it's 99% of the worlds population not just Americans. the only people not effected are the people who are isolated like tribal people. Ive been wanting to see this movie but none of the threatened in my area are showing it and I find it strange. ¥À¡¼¥¯¡¦¥¦¥©¡¼¥¿¡¼¥º movie. OMG! No wonder I am riddled with so many physical disorders. I can remember having Teflon pans that had chips of Teflon coming off of them. I stopped using them, when the warning came out, but I used them for years with no inkling of what those Teflon chips were doing to me and my family. Added to the Teflon pans we used many of the other products listed. What's worse, is we know this poisoning is still going on. Many times these huge companies simply change a molecule to get around regulations on toxic materials.
So. if i made a jack rabbit stop at a STOP sign. and get a fine for 75, what fines has DuPont has so far. This is a perfect example of why we should have Medicare for all. Tax the hell out of these companies and hold them accountable. If our government allows this then they should pay for everyone's healthcare. Credit. Bryan Schutmaat for The New York Times Feature Rob Bilott was a corporate defense attorney for eight years. Then he took on an environmental suit that would upend his entire career ? and expose a brazen, decades-long history of chemical pollution. Rob Bilott on land owned by the Tennants near Parkersburg, Credit. Bryan Schutmaat for The New York Times J ust months before Rob Bilott made partner at Taft Stettinius & Hollister, he received a call on his direct line from a cattle farmer. The farmer, Wilbur Tennant of Parkersburg, said that his cows were dying left and right. He believed that the DuPont chemical company, which until recently operated a site in Parkersburg that is more than 35 times the size of the Pentagon, was responsible. Tennant had tried to seek help locally, he said, but DuPont just about owned the entire town. He had been spurned not only by Parkersburgs lawyers but also by its politicians, journalists, doctors and veterinarians. The farmer was angry and spoke in a heavy Appalachian accent. Bilott struggled to make sense of everything he was saying. He might have hung up had Tennant not blurted out the name of Bilotts grandmother, Alma Holland White. White had lived in Vienna, a northern suburb of Parkersburg, and as a child, Bilott often visited her in the summers. In 1973 she brought him to the cattle farm belonging to the Tennants neighbors, the Grahams, with whom White was friendly. Bilott spent the weekend riding horses, milking cows and watching Secretariat win the Triple Crown on TV. He was 7 years old. The visit to the Grahams farm was one of his happiest childhood memories. When the Grahams heard in 1998 that Wilbur Tennant was looking for legal help, they remembered Bilott, Whites grandson, who had grown up to become an environmental lawyer. They did not understand, however, that Bilott was not the right kind of environmental lawyer. He did not represent plaintiffs or private citizens. Like the other 200 lawyers at Taft, a firm founded in 1885 and tied historically to the family of President William Howard Taft, Bilott worked almost exclusively for large corporate clients. His specialty was defending chemical companies. Several times, Bilott had even worked on cases with DuPont lawyers. Nevertheless, as a favor to his grandmother, he agreed to meet the farmer. ¡Æ¡ÆIt just felt like the right thing to do, he says today. ¡Æ¡ÆI felt a connection to those folks. The connection was not obvious at their first meeting. About a week after his phone call, Tennant drove from Parkersburg with his wife to Tafts headquarters in downtown Cincinnati. They hauled cardboard boxes containing videotapes, photographs and documents into the firms glassed-in reception area on the 18th floor, where they sat in gray midcentury-modern couches beneath an oil portrait of one of Tafts founders. Tennant ? burly and nearly six feet tall, wearing jeans, a plaid flannel shirt and a baseball cap ? did not resemble a typical Taft client. ¡Æ¡ÆHe didnt show up at our offices looking like a bank vice president, says Thomas Terp, a partner who was Bilotts supervisor. ¡Æ¡ÆLets put it that way. Terp joined Bilott for the meeting. Wilbur Tennant explained that he and his four siblings had run the cattle farm since their father abandoned them as children. They had seven cows then. Over the decades they steadily acquired land and cattle, until 200 cows roamed more than 600 hilly acres. The property would have been even larger had his brother Jim and Jims wife, Della, not sold 66 acres in the early 80s to DuPont. The company wanted to use the plot for a landfill for waste from its factory near Parkersburg, called Washington Works, where Jim was employed as a laborer. Jim and Della did not want to sell, but Jim had been in poor health for years, mysterious ailments that doctors couldnt diagnose, and they needed the money. DuPont rechristened the plot Dry Run Landfill, named after the creek that ran through it. The same creek flowed down to a pasture where the Tennants grazed their cows. Not long after the sale, Wilbur told Bilott, the cattle began to act deranged. They had always been like pets to the Tennants. At the sight of a Tennant they would amble over, nuzzle and let themselves be milked. No longer. Now when they saw the farmers, they charged. Wilbur fed a videotape into the VCR. The footage, shot on a camcorder, was grainy and intercut with static. Images jumped and repeated. The sound accelerated and slowed down. It had the quality of a horror movie. In the opening shot the camera pans across the creek. It takes in the surrounding forest, the white ash trees shedding their leaves and the rippling, shallow water, before pausing on what appears to be a snowbank at an elbow in the creek. The camera zooms in, revealing a mound of soapy froth. ¡Æ¡ÆIve taken two dead deer and two dead cattle off this ripple, Tennant says in voice-over. ¡Æ¡ÆThe blood run out of their noses and out their mouths. Theyre trying to cover this stuff up. But its not going to be covered up, because Im going to bring it out in the open for people to see. The video shows a large pipe running into the creek, discharging green water with bubbles on the surface. ¡Æ¡ÆThis is what they expect a mans cows to drink on his own property, Wilbur says. ¡Æ¡ÆIts about high time that someone in the state department of something-or-another got off their cans. At one point, the video cuts to a skinny red cow standing in hay. Patches of its hair are missing, and its back is humped ? a result, Wilbur speculates, of a kidney malfunction. Another blast of static is followed by a close-up of a dead black calf lying in the snow, its eye a brilliant, chemical blue. ¡Æ¡ÆOne hundred fifty-three of these animals Ive lost on this farm, Wilbur says later in the video. ¡Æ¡ÆEvery veterinarian that Ive called in Parkersburg, they will not return my phone calls or they dont want to get involved. Since they dont want to get involved, Ill have to dissect this thing myself. Im going to start at this head. The video cuts to a calfs bisected head. Close-ups follow of the calfs blackened teeth (¡Æ¡ÆThey say thats due to high concentrations of fluoride in the water that they drink) its liver, heart, stomachs, kidneys and gall bladder. Each organ is sliced open, and Wilbur points out unusual discolorations ? some dark, some green ? and textures. ¡Æ¡ÆI dont even like the looks of them, he says. ¡Æ¡ÆIt dont look like anything Ive been into before. Bilott watched the video and looked at photographs for several hours. He saw cows with stringy tails, malformed hooves, giant lesions protruding from their hides and red, receded eyes; cows suffering constant diarrhea, slobbering white slime the consistency of toothpaste, staggering bowlegged like drunks. Tennant always zoomed in on his cows eyes. ¡Æ¡ÆThis cows done a lot of suffering, he would say, as a blinking eye filled the screen. ¡Æ¡ÆThis is bad, Bilott said to himself. ¡Æ¡ÆTheres something really bad going on here. Bilott decided right away to take the Tennant case. It was, he says again, ¡Æ¡Æthe right thing to do. Bilott might have had the practiced look of a corporate lawyer ? soft-spoken, milk-complected, conservatively attired ? but the job had not come naturally to him. He did not have a typical Taft résumé. He had not attended college or law school in the Ivy League. His father was a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force, and Bilott spent most of his childhood moving among air bases near Albany; Flint, Mich. Newport Beach, Calif. and Wiesbaden, West Germany. Bilott attended eight schools before graduating from Fairborn High, near Ohios Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. As a junior, he received a recruitment letter from a tiny liberal-arts school in Sarasota called the New College of Florida, which graded pass/fail and allowed students to design their own curriculums. Many of his friends there were idealistic, progressive ? ideological misfits in Reagans America. He met with professors individually and came to value critical thinking. ¡Æ¡ÆI learned to question everything you read, he said. ¡Æ¡ÆDont take anything at face value. Dont care what other people say. I liked that philosophy. Bilott studied political science and wrote his thesis about the rise and fall of Dayton. He hoped to become a city manager. But his father, who late in life enrolled in law school, encouraged Bilott to do the same. Surprising his professors, he chose to attend law school at Ohio State, where his favorite course was environmental law. ¡Æ¡ÆIt seemed like it would have real-world impact, he said. ¡Æ¡ÆIt was something you could do to make a difference. When, after graduation, Taft made him an offer, his mentors and friends from New College were aghast. They didnt understand how he could join a corporate firm. Bilott didnt see it that way. He hadnt really thought about the ethics of it, to be honest. ¡Æ¡ÆMy family said that a big firm was where youd get the most opportunities, he said. ¡Æ¡ÆI knew nobody who had ever worked at a firm, nobody who knew anything about it. I just tried to get the best job I could. I dont think I had any clue of what that involved. At Taft, he asked to join Thomas Terps environmental team. Ten years earlier, Congress passed the legislation known as Superfund, which financed the emergency cleanup of hazardous-waste dumps. Superfund was a lucrative development for firms like Taft, creating an entire subfield within environmental law, one that required a deep understanding of the new regulations in order to guide negotiations among municipal agencies and numerous private parties. Terps team at Taft was a leade
Ã??ã??ã?¯ã??ã?üüã?ã??ã?¿ã??ã?º movie page imdb. Ce contenu fait partie dune histoire plus large, mais cette histoire nest pas disponible dans votre langue. Nous vous recommandons quand même de lire ce contenu dans le contexte dune des histoires suivantes: DuPont lawsuits (re PFOA pollution in USA) English] Auteur: Nathaniel Rich, New York Times Magazine (USA) Publié le: 21 January 2016 "The Lawyer Who Became?DuPonts Worst Nightmare" 6 Jan. 2016... that his cows were dying left and right. He believed responsible. Tennant had tried to seek help locally, he said, but DuPont just about owned the entire town. He had been spurned not only by Parkersburgs lawyers but also by its politicians, journalists, doctors and veterinarians. Rob] Bilott. of Taft Stettinius & Hollister, which had a large practice defending companies from environmental claims]?filed a federal suit?against DuPont in. 1999 [over environmental impacts on Tennant's farm. obtained a court order forcing] DuPont to share all documentation related to [PFOA, or perfluorooctanoic acid. and received dozens] of boxes containing thousands of unorganized documents... The story that Bilott [found in the documents. astounding in its breadth, specificity and sheer brazenness. Although]?DuPonts own instructions specified that it was not to be flushed into surface water or sewers. for decades] DuPont pumped hundreds of thousands of pounds of PFOA the Ohio River. and] dumped 7, 100 tons of PFOA-laced sludge which the chemical could seep straight into the ground... [Refers to various scientific findings by DuPont on PFOA's health effects, including its role in causing cancer, and dispersion, which DuPont did not disclose to environmental regulators or to the public. ?[Bilott said] ¡Æ¡Æ... ¡Äknew this stuff was harmful, and they put it in the water anyway. was [PFOA] doing to the tens of thousands of people in the areas around Parkersburg [West Virginia] who drank it daily from their taps. In 2000-01, Bilott drafted]?a public brief against DuPont. demanding] immediate action to regulate PFOA and provide clean water to those living near the factory. Harry Deitzler, a plaintiffs lawyer in West Virginia. said] ¡Æ¡ÆBefore that letter, corporations could rely upon the public misperception that if a chemical was dangerous, it was regulated. The letter led, four years later. DuPonts reaching a 16. 5 million settlement. The fine represented less than 2 percent of the profits earned by DuPont on PFOA that year. September 2004, DuPont decided to settle [a class-action lawsuit by Bilott on behalf of those whose water was tainted by PFOA. It agreed to install filtration plants¡Ä[and to] fund a scientific study to determine whether there was a ¡Æ¡Æprobable linktween PFOA and any diseases... In December 2011,?after seven years, the scientists¡Ä[found] a ¡Æ¡Æprobable link between PFOA and kidney cancer, testicular cancer [and other diseases. As of October, 3, 535 plaintiffs have filed personal-injury lawsuits against DuPont. [In the] first. verdict, in October 2015. a kidney-cancer survivor named Carla. Bartlett was awarded 1. 6 million. DuPont plans to appeal... DuPont, which is currently negotiating a merger with Dow Chemical, last year. spun off] its chemical a new corporation called Chemours. which] has replaced PFOA with similar¡Äcompounds designed to biodegrade more quickly. Like PFOA, these new substances have not come under any regulation from the E. P. A. emours [says. ¡Æ¡ÆA significant body of data demonstrates that these alternative chemistries can be used safely. Last May, 200 scientists¡Äsigned? the Madrid Statement, which expresses concern about the production of all fluorochemicals, or PFASs, including those that have replaced PFOA. DuPonts head of global media relations, wrote¡Ä: ¡Æ¡ÆDuPont does not believe the Madrid Statement reflects a true consideration of the available data. DuPont worked for more than a decade, with oversight from regulators, to introduce its alternatives. Extensive data has been developed, demonstrating that these alternatives are much more rapidly eliminated from the body than PFOA, and have improved health safety profiles. [also refers to 3M] Tout lire Entreprises concernées: 3M Chemours (formerly part of DuPont) Dow Chemical DuPont.
Ã??ã??ã?¯ã??ã?üüã?ã??ã?¿ã??ã?º movie page. Thank you for this information! I am choosing my new cookware for the healthier food. There's so many kinds of it in the market, becomes very confusing what is what. And the so called right want less regulations. From Kingston Ontario, Du Pont has a massive plant here that sits off the waters side. Makes sense why ive always been so sick, drinking tap water for so long no wonder we see early deaths.
I received a teflon pan for a wedding present in the 60's. I noticed the black li ing was comimg off. I thought we are eating this. So I into the garbage it went. My daughter the RN brought some to my house. Into the garbage they went. After all this, see this company's share price. Teflon, the nonstick pan coating made by DuPont, was originally praised as a great American innovation. But the chemical used to make it was toxic. DuPont dumped the byproducts of Teflon into landfills and rivers, poisoning communities in West Virginia, where Teflon was made. For years, DuPont knew about Teflons threats to human health, but didnt tell the public. Then a lawyer named Robert Bilott uncovered everything. He fought DuPont in court for years. To this day, he continues to litigate on behalf of everyone poisoned by DuPont. Journalist Nathaniel Rich wrote about Robert Bilott in a New York Times Magazine article titled ¡È The Lawyer Who Became DuPonts Worst Nightmare. ¡É Now that article has been adapted into a new movie called ¡ÈDark Waters. ¡É Mark Ruffalo plays Robert Bilott. When the film opens, Bilott is moving up in his career and having kids with his wife. He puts it all at stake when becoming a whistleblower. ¡ÈWhen the whole world around you is telling you ¡Ä get the career, get the money, get the house, get the cars, that's what we're told over and over and over again. He makes a choice to go down the abject opposite road and suffers, ¡É says Ruffalo. Bilott actually switches sides because he had represented chemical companies as a corporate defense attorney for Taft Law. ¡ÈIt is kind of fantastical, the whole way it happens and unravels, and all the things that had to come into place by chance to be able to ¡Ä reveal this great dark secret of American corporate might, ¡É describes Ruffalo. Anne Hathaway as Sarah Barlage, the wife of Robert Bilott, in ¡ÈDark Waters. ¡É Credit: Mary Cybulski. An alarmed farmer, powerful corporation, and money-focused EPA The story begins when a longtime farmer, Wilbur Tennant, contacts Bilott to say that his cows have been poisoned, and he suspects DuPont. Director Todd Haynes describes: ¡ÈWilbur had a certainty. He was also watching his cows die¡Ä Ultimately 200 cows were contaminated horribly. And he would start dissecting them, and pulling out their organs, and examining what was going on. And then he started to film it on videotape. And he brought these tapes, and he brought all this evidence to Taft Law. And still, they [the lawyers] were like, ¡ÆOkay, well, let's see what we can do. We'll give it a little shot. ¡É Bill Camp (left) as Wilbur Tennant and Jim Azelvandre (right) as Jim Tennant in ¡ÈDark Waters. ¡É Credit: Mary Cybulski. Initially, the lawyers believe that DuPont self-regulates and has too much knowledge to allow contamination to get out of hand. And the Environmental Protection Agency? ¡ÈThe EPA is a captured agency at this point that's just slavish to the economy, ¡É explains Ruffalo. ¡ÈWhen you prioritize the economy as the indicator of the health of the nation, then the actual health of the nation is secondary ¡Ä What the company is coming out with as a rebuttal is, ¡ÆHey, you got jobs. ¡Ä But in America, how did we get to a place where we're saying, ¡ÆYou're lucky to have a job, even if it makes you sick? And that's the reality for a lot of Americans today. ¡É Bilott files a lawsuit in 1999. But decades before that, DuPont knew about the toxicity and kept it a secret because Teflon alone made them 1 billion per year (the equivalent of 10-100 billion a year today, Ruffalo points out. The culprit chemical: PFOA/C8 Ruffalo says PFOA existed even before the EPA did. ¡ÈIt was grandfathered in because ¡Ä all the companies were expected to self-regulate and tell the EPA which chemicals they knew were bad. And they [DuPont] never told the EPA that PFOA/C8, that whole group of chemicals was toxic. ¡É What does PFOA do to the human body? Well, Bilotts work led to a massive study in which 70, 000 people tested their blood. After seven years, scientists concluded that PFOA was definitively linked to six illnesses, including endocrine diseases and some cancers. ¡ÈAnd that was with one part per billion, which is one drop of water in an Olympic-size swimming pool. That's how toxic this stuff is, ¡É Ruffalo explains. ¡ÈAnd it stays in the environment forever. That's why they call them forever chemicals ¡Ä There's no way to get it out of your body once it's there ¡Ä It accumulates over time. And it's actually passed from the mother to the child in utero. ¡É Mark Ruffalo as Robert Bilott, holding up a photograph of a child with facial deformities, whose mother passed PFOA to him in utero. Credit: Mary Cybulski. Haynes adds that the chemicals ultimately spread to the entire U. S. and the world. ¡ÈWhat happened was that the EPA was finding it in eagles eggs and they went to DuPont. They said, ¡ÆWhy are we finding your chemical? ¡Ä This is a man-made chemical. No one else makes it. Why are we finding it in the eagles? ¡É recalls Ruffalo. ¡ÈAnd that's when 3M said, ¡ÆWe gotta get out of this business. And DuPont, in pure cynicism, said, ¡ÆOkay we'll take it over. ¡É Mark Ruffalo with director Todd Haynes on the set of ¡ÈDark Waters. ¡É Credit: Mary Cybulski. A class-action lawsuit to change the U. system Ruffalo explains that Bilott has filed a lawsuit against DuPont for every human being in the U. because we all have PFOA in us. What does Bilott hope to achieve? Ruffalo explains: ¡ÈIn America, it's incumbent upon us to prove that these chemicals are harming us ¡Ä There's 8000 chemicals that are unregulated that we have no idea what they're doing to us ¡Ä In Europe, it's incumbent upon the company to prove that the chemical isn't harming them before they put it into the market. And that simple change alone would revolutionize our health care and our environment. Because they couldn't bring a chemical out until they proved to us that it was safe ¡Ä He [Bilott] would say that would be the best thing that could happen. ¡É However, Ruffalo notes that DuPont has blocked Bilott from mentioning that concept in front of a jury in court. Why? ¡ÈBecause it's so rational. It's so simple. It's so easy to understand, ¡É says Ruffalo. A new ¡Èprove its safe before its public¡É system would require a massive law change, and getting new products to market would be pricier. ¡ÈThe problem with the United States is because we're slavish to this economic system, our government allows them to poison us. But then we have to pay for our health care to make us well. And if you had a health care system where the state was responsible for the health of people, our water and our air and our food would get cleaned real fast, ¡É says Ruffalo. - Written by Amy Ta, produced by Alex Tryggvadottir.
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Robert Bilott always specialized in environmental law, but before 1998 he worked with large corporate clients, helping them understand and obey legislation relating to toxic materials and their release. All that changed when a farmer who knew Bilott's grandmother came to him and asked if he could be represented ? his cattle were dying and he suspected chemical company DuPont had something to do with it. Bilott's initial investigation led to over 20 years of research, a massive class-action lawsuit, and worldwide changes in the creation and handling of chemical compounds. And now, Robert Bilott's story is the focus of the film Dark Waters, in theaters on November 22. It wouldn't surprise anyone that a lawyer dogged as Bilott is continuing the same work. He remains at the same law firm he began at, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, having become a partner back in 1998. Just a few months ago on October 8, 2019, he published a book, Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle against DuPont, that told the full story of his work to bring PFOAs, chemically stabilized substances unregulated and unresearched at the start of his investigation, to the attention of the Environmental Protection Agency and general public. In 2016, the New York Times published an article about Bilott's work, The Lawyer Who Became DuPont's Worst Nightmare. Of those who read the article, actor Mark Ruffalo, who was curious enough to reach out to Bilott directly about turning his story into a movie. Speaking to Variety, Ruffalo said, I felt like the article probably couldnt get into really all of the details. I wanted to take film and tell those stories of real people on the front lines fighting for their lives every single day, we never hear from, never hear about, and this was a way for me to take my art form and be not political, but human. ¡É This might be a more fruitful way of doing so, as the actor's Water Defense foundation, founded in 2010, seems to have quietly disappeared in 2018 after an unfortunate campaign in Flint, MI. Movieclips Trailers on YouTube The film focuses on Bilott's discovery of PFOAs after taking on the Parkersburg, West Virginia farmer as his client. The farmer's cows were dying terrible deaths, blood coming out of their noses and mouths, and he suspected his brother's sale of a chunk of their land to DuPont allegedly had something to do with it. In 2005, Bilott's work resulted in an EPA case brought against DuPont that they settled for 16. 5 million, less than 2% of the profits they made on PFOAs that year. In 2017 Bilott became a Right Livelihood Foundation laureate. Often referred to as an alternate Nobel, the award is to "honour and support those offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today. according to the foundation's website. Recent laureates include Greta Thunberg (of Sweden) and Guo Jianmei (of China. Currently, Bilott's going forward with another major class action suit, against eight different chemical companies, on behalf of everyone in the U. S. with PFAs, not just PFOAs, in their blood. By widening the scope and demanding chemical companies pay for the scientific studies and tests to back their claims these chemicals are harmless, Bilott hopes to hold them accountable on a larger scale. Speaking to E&E News, he explained. we're dealing with a real public health threat from PFOA, and information does exist that we spent 20 years collecting and shouldn't be spending another 20 years to realize that we already have what we need to move forward on this chemical...
I have used the same cast iron frypan for 40 years and still good. Watch The Lawyer Who Became DuPont's Worst Nightmare Megashare. The image accompanying the 2016 New York Times piece, ¡ÈThe Lawyer Who Became DuPonts Worst Nightmare¡É has stuck with me since I first read it. The contrast of a man in a dark suit with darkened eyes and a grave face standing on a West Virginia farm on a wintry day is chilling. Rob Bilotts expression in that photo captures so much of the PFAS story. Its the face of a man tired of knowing the truth and not seeing the proportional response to that knowledge from those with the power and responsibility to protect people. It is no surprise that this article, and the story of Rob Bilotts fight to hold DuPont accountable for poisoning a West Virginia community with ¡Èforever chemicals, ¡É has been brought to the big screen in Dark Waters which opens this week. The storyline tracks closely to the typical underdog tale with a few twists. Bilott is the underdog even though hes a corporate defense attorney. He courageously takes on a huge legal battle with one of his firms clients. He works tirelessly in search of the truth. He spends a good chunk of his career unraveling the tangled threads of corporate disinformation and manipulation of the science behind Teflons ingredients. But even after fighting for over 20 years to expose the truth, the underdog has still not seen a total victory. He worked on behalf of the community to win the settlement that jumpstarted a much-needed large-scale health study (the findings of which have been used to support government assessments. But exposing the truth and handing in the independent scientific studies isnt always enough, especially when contending with moneyed interests. Because of the disinformation campaigns of DuPont, 3M and captured government agencies, PFAS are still unregulated and companies like DuPont are still denying the harm and shirking responsibility to clean them up. This film is a wake up call for America- its time for action on PFAS. Just because a fact is inconvenient doesnt make it any less true We included Bilotts story as a case study in our Disinformation Playbook last year because DuPont and 3Ms efforts were a classic use of ¡ÈThe Fake, ¡É a play in which companies conduct counterfeit science or bury inconvenient science altogether in order to evade regulation. And now, predictably, DuPont and the larger chemical industry is also criticizing the film by saying its not based on facts. Thats rich coming from a company that literally hid the facts for decades in order to manufacture its own convenient truth. It turns out that Rob Bilott and communities across the country exposing the truth about these chemicals are still DuPonts worst nightmare. Its proven in the amount of energy the industry is putting into attempting to deny the real events underlying the film. The Ohio Manufacturers Association has created a website called ¡ÆTruth About Dark Waters and even put resources into the development of several short videos claiming that the film ignores the truth and insults Ohio Valley residents and their way of life. But, despite claiming to be a site with the facts, it offers no sources to refute the storyline of the movie. And in a feeble attempt to take down Rob Bilotts new book, Exposure, it cherry picks a few industry-funded studies to back up its claim that exposure to PFAS isnt harmful to human health. But as we know, scientific conclusions arent drawn from a single study, they are reached by understanding the weight of the evidence. In the case of PFOA and PFOS, there is a robust body of independent science showing that exposure is associated with effects on ¡Èpretty much almost every system that you can think of. ¡É ¡ÈThey want to show the world theres no use fighting¡É Mark Ruffalo, who plays Bilott in the film, told Christiane Amanpour in an interview this week that the way in which the game is rigged touches all industries, from pharmaceuticals to food to fossil fuels, ¡Èits everywhere. ¡É We found the same thing as we collected case studies for the Disinformation Playbook. By pushing back against inconvenient science and sowing disinformation about products, companies can ultimately delay or otherwise obstruct science-based policies intended to protect the public. The power wielded by these companies as they bankroll members of congress, infiltrate government agencies, spread disinformation to policymakers and the public, and fight like hell to avoid accountability is oppressive. As Bilott says in the film, ¡Èthey want to show the world theres no use fighting. ¡É Since the films protagonist helped uncover this coverup, PFAS have been found in the bodies of 99% of Americans tested and in the drinking water and groundwater all over the country, around industrial sites, airports, and military sites. PFAS contamination has been found at military sites across 37 states (Source: UCS 2018. Ruffalo described this story as the ¡Èbiggest corporate crime and coverup in American history¡É on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last week, and who is impacted most? A newly released UCS report found that communities facing PFAS contamination are more likely to be low-income communities or communities of color and in addition to already dealing with disproportionate social, economic, and environmental burdens they are also dealing with high levels of PFAS in their water. For too long, chemical companies like DuPont have gotten away with knowingly poisoning Americans and keeping the science quiet. Bilotts work is paying off The good news is that this film is coming out as Congress negotiates the final language of the bipartisan National Defense Authorization Act, which will hopefully contain the strong provisions from each chamber to phase out the use of PFAS in firefighting foam, halt discharges into waterways, require reporting of PFAS releases, and add it to the list of hazardous substances under the Superfund law requiring polluters to pay for cleanup. Congress has also been engaging in strong oversight of EPA and even of the manufacturing companies, holding several hearings over the past year, including one that asked 3M, DuPont, and Chemours tough questions about denying the science and how they plan to clean up their colossal mess. Theres a lot to learn from the Parkersburg, WV story told in Dark Waters, but to me, the most important theme is that people armed with science are immensely powerful and cannot be stopped. Dark Waters is out in select theaters Starting November 22nd and across the country on December 6th. Be sure to find it in a theater near you and then join the fight. Mary Cybulski/Focus Features Posted in: Science and Democracy Tags: disinformation playbook, PFAS Support from UCS members make work like this possible. Will you join us? Help UCS advance independent science for a healthy environment and a safer world.
I guess people can't create products and food thats actually good for you anymore. We are the lab rats...

Ã??ã??ã?¯ã??ã?üüã?ã??ã?¿ã??ã?º movie reviews. Don't use: Teflon, Aluminum, Copper and Ceramic knockoff Use: Cast iron, glass, stainless steel (w/o nickle or chromium) 100% Ceramic. "You tell me nothing is wrong here. Okay, it's true. Nothing is wrong with 2019's Dark Waters. Heck, it's one of the best and most monomania films of this year. "Waters" while harboring a look of grubbiness and a subject matter that's equally as grubby, is a terrific true story drama, a naturalistic sort of documentary, and an effective, low key paranoia thriller to boot. In verity, if you like the dreary temperament of North Country, the investigative candor of Erin Brockovich, the exhaustion of A Civil Action, or 2015's Spotlight, then Dark Waters will effectively put you in cinematic harm's way. It's about a corporate defense attorney who brings forth a lawsuit involving the famed chemical company named DuPont. DuPont is a large corporation that makes Teflon and Teflon might be responsible for many unexplained deaths. Dialogue driven, perfectly acted, and maturely directed by LA native Todd Haynes, Waters" runs 128 minutes and spans almost two decades. The towns of Cincinnati, OH and Parkersburg, WV are featured in "Waters" as they appear like dreary landscapes waiting for the hellhole slaughter. Cows and people are dying, snow and fall skies are evident, and teeth of animals/humans are staining. Yup, Dark Waters is not meant for your entertainment or your feel-good constitution. It's meant to seep into your movie-goer's central nervous system while staying there. As you view Dark Waters, you might adopt a fear of contaminated water. And I'm not talking about the kind of water where a certain great white shark is lingering or a trip to Mexico is calling. You'll also revel in the mesmerizing performances by Mark Ruffalo (he disappears into character via defense attorney Robert Bilott) Anne Hathaway (Bilott's intense wife) and Tim Robbins (Bilott's equally intense superior. All in all, Dark Waters will garner multiple conspiracies and multiple Academy Award nominations this coming January (that's my prediction. Hands (and hooves) across these waters. Rating: 3 and a half stars.

Its a corporate world run by greedy psychopaths. Monsanto and DuPont Merck and Bayer are at the top of the evil Corp pyramid. ¥À¡¼¥¯¡¦¥¦¥©¡¼¥¿¡¼¥º movies. Your getting the pan makers outa business lol.

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