This New Insider Exclusive “Justice In America” Network Tv Special Exposes Their Decades Of Deception And Death.
Bilott filed a federal suit against dupont in the summer of 1999 in the southern district of west virginia. Dupont began using pfoa to manufacture teflon at its washington works plant in 1951. More than a decade ago residents near the company’s washington works plant in wood county, west virginia, learned that their water was contaminated with c.
For Dupont, Teflon, Which Was Used To Coat Pots And Pans, Proved To Be A Gold Mine, With Sales Peaking At Roughly A Billion Dollars A Year In 2004, According To The Company’s Sec Filings.
It stars mark ruffalo as bilott, along with anne hathaway, tim robbins, bill camp,. Teflon was, until 2013, produced with perfluorooctanoic acid, or pfoa or c8. It had used the chemical there since the early 1950s.
Titanium Dioxide Maker Chemours Co,Which Was Spun Off From Dupont, Said It Will Pay Half.
Chemical company, dupont, disposes of highly toxic pfoa (c8) waste from teflon products into the parkersburg, wv area and surrounding water districts; The big bang of the nationwide “forever chemicals” crisis was the revelation in 2001 that pfoa, a toxic compound used to make teflon, had contaminated the drinking water for 70,000 people near a dupont factory in west virginia. In 1981, dupont found evidence of birth defects in babies born to female employees who worked in its west virginia plant, and decides to pull female employees from teflon work.
And Its Spin Off Chemours Co.
The litigation was the subject of the 2019 todd haynes film dark waters starring mark ruffalo. The following is an excerpt from. But they hid those facts from the public.
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.
Dupont was the manufacturer of the plastic material, teflon, in parkersburg, west virginia. Poisoning residents, wildlife, land, and water supplies. Dupont scientists were aware in the early 1990s of links to cancerous tumors from c8 exposure.
