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Robert Bilott (nascido em 2 de agosto de 1965) é um advogado ambiental americano de Cincinnati, Ohio. Bilott é conhecido pelos processos contra a DuPont em nome dos queixosos feridos por lixo despejado em comunidades rurais na Virgínia Ocidental.
Robert Bilott is an American attorney who sued DuPont for dumping toxic chemicals in West Virginia and Ohio. He wrote a memoir and inspired a film about his 20-year battle against DuPont and PFAS contamination.
6 de jan. de 2016 · Feature. The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare. Rob Bilott was a corporate defense attorney for eight years. Then he took on an environmental suit that would upend his entire...
3 de mai. de 2024 · Robert Bilott is a lawyer who sued DuPont for dumping toxic chemicals in West Virginia and won a historic settlement. He is also a memoirist, a speaker, and a board member of several environmental organizations.
- Robert Bilott
- The Tennant Family Farm
- Dupont
- Taft Stettinius & Hollister
- The Lubeck Letter
In real life as in the film, Bilott’s earliest professional experiences after law school were working on behalf of chemical companies for his employer, Taft Stettinius & Hollister, providing the firm’s corporate clients with guidance on how best to comply with the so-called Superfund lawpassed by Congress in 1980 to regulate sites tainted with haza...
As a linchpin bolstering Dark Waters’ case as a message movie, the events depicted on the Tennant cattle farm in Parkersburg, West Virginia, really ought to be accurate, and for the most part, they are. Wilbur Tennant’s brother Jim really was a DuPont employee plagued with a serious ailment his doctors could not diagnose, and the chemical company d...
As unbelievable as it may sound, DuPont really did, in the 1960s, offer some of its staff Teflon-laced cigarettes as a human experiment into the potential side effects of the PFOA-produced nonstick material, as the movie recounts. As company scientists noted in internal documents, “Nine out of ten people in the highest-dosed group were noticeably i...
While the character of the hand-wringing Taft lawyer James Ross, portrayed by The Good Place’s William Jackson Harper, seems to have been invented, along with the scene where Ross suggests that Bilott’s class-action suit might read to the public as nothing more than “a shakedown of an iconic American company,” Bilott did tell the New York Times tha...
The Kiger family, teacher Joseph Kiger and his wife, Darlene, really did receive a cagey and curiously worded letter from the local Lubeck water district in October 2000 notifying them that an unregulated chemical named PFOA was present in their drinking water at ‘‘low concentrations.” And, as the film intimates, this letter, delivered on the publi...
- Matthew Phelan
25 de nov. de 2019 · As happened in real life, the movie depicts Ruffalo’s Bilott as a lawyer who defends large chemical companies before he is approached for help in 1998 by Wilbur Tennant (Bill Camp), a West ...
28 de mar. de 2023 · For nearly a quarter of a century, American attorney Robert Bilott has been fighting to alert us to the ravages of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), the chemicals used on a massive...
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