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Robert Bilott (born August 2, 1965) is an American environmental attorney from Cincinnati, Ohio.Bilott is known for the lawsuits against DuPont on behalf of plaintiffs injured by chemical waste dumped in rural communities in West Virginia.
Delaware’s Supreme Court has upheld a judge’s dismissal of a lawsuit alleging that the DuPont Co. massively downplayed the cost of environmental liabilities imposed on spinoff company Chemours.
Dark Waters is a 2019 American legal thriller film directed by Todd Haynes and written by Mario Correa and Matthew Michael Carnahan.The story dramatizes Robert Bilott's case against the chemical manufacturing corporation DuPont after they contaminated a town with unregulated chemicals.
The lawsuit was filed after Chemours, DuPont and Corteva agreed to pay more than $1.1 billion in a class action PFAS water contamination lawsuit consolidated in South Carolina.
DuPont then made certain products, such as Teflon, with the chemicals it received, according to the Weatherfords’ lawsuit. The suit says researchers at DuPont discovered the dangers of forever ...
29 May 2019 The state of New Hampshire filed a lawsuit against Dupont, 3M, and other companies, for their roles in the crisis in drinking water contamination in the United States. The lawsuit claims that the polluted water is the result of the manufacture and use of perfluorinated chemicals, a group of more than 4,000 compounds collectively ...
The district announced its lawsuit Tuesday against 3M Company, DuPont de Nemours, Inc., and other manufacturers of PFAS. The chemicals are found in household materials like Teflon that in recent ...
Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle against DuPont is the 2019 memoir by Robert Bilott, an American environmental attorney at Taft Stettinius & Hollister. The book follows Bilott's personal and professional journey through the litigation that revealed a global crisis of persistent organic pollution due ...