Dark Waters: What Other Dangers Are Large Corporations Hiding?
Inspired by the true story of Robert Bilott, an attorney who took on the DuPont company in an environmental suit exposing a decades-long history of chemical pollution in drinking water.
After seeing the docudrama starring Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins, and Bill Camp about a legal case against the chemical manufacturing giant DuPont, Jason Cousineau and Eric Renderking Fisk ask - what other secrets are corporations hiding? What other dangerous "forever chemicals" like the Teflon byproduct like C8 - also known as PFOC - are hiding in landfills and decaying storage facilities?
How long did companies like Monsanto know the long term dangers of Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Round-Up?
How long did food companies know that High-Fructose Corn Syrup is linked to higher risks for obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer?
Have there been honest mistakes companies have made in developing and producing innovative products? What can and should be done about companies that hide the facts of their products from the public, The FDA, and EPA?
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Dark Waters Movie | Official Website | Trailers and Release
From Participant (Spotlight, Green Book), DARK WATERS tells the shocking and heroic story of an attorney (Mark Ruffalo) who risks his career and family to uncover a dark secret hidden by one of the world’s largest corporations and to bring justice to a community dangerously exposed for decades to deadly chemicals.
Corporate environmental defense attorney Rob Bilott (Academy Award®-nominee Mark Ruffalo) has just made partner at his prestigious Cincinnati law firm in large part due to his work defending Big Chem companies. He finds himself conflicted after he’s contacted by two West Virginia farmers who believe that the local DuPont plant is dumping toxic waste in the area landfill that is destroying their fields and killing their cattle. Hoping to learn the truth about just what is happening, Bilott, with help from his supervising partner in the firm, Tom Terp (Academy Award®-winner Tim Robbins), files a complaint that marks the beginning of an epic 15-year fight—one that will not only test his relationship with his wife, Sarah (Academy Award®-winner Anne Hathaway) but also his reputation, his health and his livelihood.
Dark Waters (2019 film) - Wikipedia
New York Times: "New York Times Magazine: The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare,"
Just 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, W.Va., 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 Parkersburg’s 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 Bilott’s grandmother, Alma Holland White...
