Exposure : poisoned water, corporate greed, and one lawyer's twenty-year battle against DuPont Cover Image

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Exposure : poisoned water, corporate greed, and one lawyer's twenty-year battle against DuPont / Robert Bilott ; with Tom Shroder.

Bilott, Robert, 1965- (author.). Shroder, Tom, (author.).

Summary:

"The true story of the lawyer who spent twenty years building a case against DuPont for its use of the hazardous, unregulated chemical PFOA, uncovering both the worst environmental contamination in history--affecting virtually every person on the planet today--and the conspiracy that kept it a secret for decades." --Dust jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 9781501172816
ISBN: 1501172816
Physical Description: xii, 386 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: First Atria books hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : Atria Books, 2019.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Act 1. The farmer: Dry run ; The call ; Parkersburg ; The farm ; The secret ingredient ; Paper trail ; The scientist ; The letter ; The meeting ; The cows come home ; The settlement -- Act 2. The town: Crossroads ; First blood ; Privileged ; Alternative data ; Appetite for destruction ; Of mouse and man ; Teflon pawns ; Actual malice ; Hail Mary ; Narrative warfare ; Epidemiology ; "No known human health effects" ; Corporate knowledge ; The perfect storm ; The big idea -- Act 3. The world: The study ; The second wave ; Dark science ; Burden of proof ; Shaken ; Road to a reckoning ; The trial ; The reckoning.