What was the chemical that DuPont was dumping in this community?

The chemical that was actually getting into the water, Teflon,

something that was completely unregulated, non-stick, grease-resistant, waterproof,

from fast food wrappers and packaging to clothing and carpeting and cosmetics.

There was data going back decades telling 3M and DuPont.

This chemical PFOA did present a substantial risk,

but the companies chose not to tell EPF.

... He was a lawyer in Cincinnati working for the chemical companies until a farmer showed up at his office with evidence that they were poisoning him.

Environmental attorney Robert Billet has now spent more than 20 years litigating hazardous dumping of what are known as forever chemicals,

in our products and in our drinking water.

The 2018 documentary The Devil We Know and the 2019 feature film Dark Waters with

Mark Ruffalo and Anne Hathaway play Billet and his wife.

And they are both about his story. Today he still works at his firm, Taft, Stentinius, and Holl wife, and they are both about his story. Today, he still works at his firm,

Taft, Stentinius, and Hollister, and is the author of his own memoir, titled Exposure,

Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's 20-year Battle Against DePont.

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went from being a lawyer defending the chemical companies to actually fighting them on behalf of

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