Hey everybody today I have one of my heroes on this show Diane Carter who's been along with my friend and

colleague Rob Blot the attorney who was whose story was featured in a major motion picture,

Dark Waters, which was a Mark Ruffalo film,

about a case that I actually tried

with Rob a lot against DuPont or poisoning tens of thousands of people in Ohio and West

Virginia with P-FAS. This family of chemicals, it's also called EFOAs, PFCs, and it's the forever chemicals that are now in many, many products as flame retardants and they're in, you know, water repounds, they're in your roofing tiles, they're in your dental floss, they're in your cosmetics,

they're in stick resistant cookware, there are many, many other products that you use in your day to

there in ski wax and products that you use in your day to day life. And once you get

they get in your body, they don't leave and they cause cancer and they cause their endocrine disruptors they cause all kinds of different forms of cancer kidney cancer prostate cancer and and many, many others. And the people who are most affected in this country probably are firefighters because it's in their turnout here. It's in our child pajamas. It's in our furniture and it was put there to stop them from burning. It's meant to protect us, but it was actually hurting us and firefighters now around this country in the last couple of years

two out of three firefighters deaths have been caused by cancer and many of those

cancers are traced back to B-fast, to this family of chemicals.

And I have been representing people across the country, my firm, Kennedy and Madonna,

were representing 200 water districts. the country, my firm Kennedy and Madonna,

were representing 200 water districts

across the country that have water systems,

including my hometown in Hyannas,

which is contaminated with P-FAS, and a number of different fire stations also in the country and

firefighters who have been the most affected.

It's used particularly on airports and it's used to smother petroleum related flames.

If you pour water on a flame on a petroleum fire it just makes it worse. But if you dump these, this P-FAS,

it smothers, and it kills the fire, and firefighters were required to train once

or twice a year with these materials on those airports.

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