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<b>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. <br><i>The story that inspired the motion picture from Participant Media/Focus Features, starring Mark Ruffalo, </i></b><b><i>Anne Hathaway</i></b><b><i>, Bill Pullman and Tim Robbins, directed by Todd Haynes.</i></b><br><br> 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 <b>poisoned by run-off </b>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 <b>DuPont</b> – the area’s largest employer – he felt they were reluctant to investigate further.<br><br> Once Robert saw the thick, foamy water that bubbled into the creek, the <b>gruesome effects</b> it seemed to have on livestock, and the disturbing frequency of <b>cancer and lung problems</b> 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 <b>PFOA</b> – a substance he’d never heard of that is used in the manufacture of <b>Teflon</b>. From that one reference, he ultimately gained access to 110,000 pages of DuPont documents, some of them fifty years old, that reveal 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 dumpe

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781471189647

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

200 x 131 x 27 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Verlag / Hersteller

Simon & Schuster Ltd