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Exposure

By: Robert Bilott
Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Mark Ruffalo - introduction
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 ERIN BROCKOVICH meets SILENT SPRING in this astounding true story of a lawyer who spent two decades building a case against one of the world’s largest chemical companies, uncovering a shocking history of environmental pollution and heartless cover-up.
The story that inspired the major motion picture from Participant Media/Focus Features, starring Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, Bill Pullman and Tim Robbins, directed by Todd Haynes.

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. He was taken by surprise when he received a call from a man named Earl Tennant, a farmer from West Virginia with a slight connection to Robert’s family. Earl was convinced the creek on his property, where his cattle grazed, was being poisoned by run-off from a neighbouring factory landfill. His cattle were dying in hideous ways, and he hadn’t even been able to get a water sample tested by local agencies, politicians or vets. As soon as they heard the name DuPont – the area’s largest employer – he felt they were reluctant to investigate further.

Once Robert saw the thick, foamy water that bubbled into the creek, the gruesome effects it seemed to have on livestock, and the disturbing frequency of cancer and lung problems in the surrounding area, he was persuaded to fight against the type of corporation his firm routinely represented. With all the cards stacked against him, Rob happened upon a stray reference in a random memo to a chemical called PFOA – a substance he’d never heard of that is used in the manufacture of Teflon. From that one reference, he ultimately gained access to 110,000 pages of DuPont documents, some of them fifty years old, that revealed decades of medical studies proving the harmful – more often than not fatal – effects of PFOA in animals and humans. And yet PFOA sludge had still been dumped into rivers and landfill, endangering many lives. The case of one farmer soon spawned a class-action suit and the shocking realisation that virtually every person on the planet has been exposed to PFOA and carries the chemical in his or her blood.

This is the unforgettable story of the lawyer who worked tirelessly for twenty years to get justice for all those who had suffered because of this chemical.©2019 Robert Bilott (P)2019 Simon & Schuster UK Political Science Politics & Government Heartfelt
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unbelievably interesting and informative book. corporations should know better how to clean up their mess

interesting read

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After reading you'll realise that there's a sleeping Monster in our water, food, houses, cars, workplaces, household products etc ... and in our bodies. The PFOS family of chemicals that continue to be manufactured by chemical companies and which have leaked into our communities The extent to how prevalent it is across the globe and it's carcinogenic properties is concerning to say the least. What's more concerning is the corporate greed and malice behind its continued production and denial of its dangers to human beings and other animals. A family of compounds that can't break down naturally and continue to inhabit our communities is frightening. I think the one clear point that came out of the book is that if you have enough money (eg DuPont) to get the best lawyers you can afford to fight tooth and nail to propagate malevolence and greed. A sad state of affairs in our justice system and shame on such corporations to take advantage of it.

great book

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