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Nov 25, 2019 · November 25, 2019 12:03 PM EST. R ob Bilott, a corporate lawyer-turned-environmental crusader, doesn’t much care if he’s made enemies over the years. “I’ve been dealing with this for ...
- 3 min
- Alejandro de la Garza
- Who Is Robert Bilott?
- What Happened at The Tennant Family Farm?
- What Else Did Dupont do?
Like in Dark Waters, Bilott began his post-school law career working on behalf of chemical companies for his employer, the Taft Stettinus & Hollister firm. During his time there, he would provide his clients with guidance on how best to comply with the "Superfund" law (or Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act) which,...
Given the fact that the events depicted on the Tennant cattle farm in Parkersburg, West Virginia, are Dark Waters' most important evidence, the filmmakers should have treated them with the utmost authenticity – to their credit, they did for the most part. Wilbur Tennant's brother Jim really was a DuPont employee who got sick with a disease the doct...
As shocking and as sad as it may sound, in the 1960s, DuPont really did offer some of its staff Teflon-laced cigarettes to test the potential side effects of PFOA. The results found that 9 out of the 10 employees unknowingly studied upon grew noticeably ill, experiencing flu-like symptoms that included chills, backache, fever, and coughing. Similar...
Nov 26, 2019 · Desperate for help, Tennant made videos hoping to convince someone to take on DuPont -- a global conglomerate and one of the largest employers in his town of Parkersburg, West Virginia.
- 8 min
- Claire Pedersen,Cho Park,Allie Yang
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Robert Bilott In real life as in the film, Bilott’s earliest professional experiences after law school were working on behalf of chemical companies for his employer, Taft Stettinius & Hollister ...
Feb 26, 2020 · Here in the UK, the government hasn’t provided a new chemical strategy since 1999. According to data from Unearthed, the regulation of UK water has been reduced by 50 percent in the last five ...
Jan 1, 2020 · By Lisa Rosen. Jan. 1, 2020 7:30 AM PT. “Dark Waters,” the real-life David and Goliath story of lawyer Rob Bilott, who fought chemical giant DuPont over the dumping of toxic waste in its West ...
Nov 30, 2019 · Dark Waters follows Robert Bilott's (Mark Ruffalo) real-life legal battle against DuPont over the release of a toxic chemical into Parkersburg, West Virginia's water supply, affecting 70,000 ...
