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

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:

'Exposure' is an unforgettable legal drama about malice and manipulation, the failings of environmental regulation, and one lawyers quest to expose the truth about Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFAS) - an unknown and unregulated toxic chemical used in the manufacturing of Teflon and a host of other household goods - that presents one of the greatest human health crises of the 21st century.

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  • ISBN: 9781501172816 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: xii, 386 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Atria Books hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Atria Books, [2019]
Subject: Bilott, Robert, 1965-
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company > Trials, litigation, etc.
Perfluorooctanoic acid > Environmental aspects.
Perfluorooctanoic acid > Toxicology.
Environmental lawyers > United States > Biography.
Genre: Biographies.

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Robert Bilott is a partner at the law firm Taft Stettinius & Hollister, LLP in Cincinnati, Ohio where he has practiced environmental law and litigation for more than twenty-eight years. He has been selected as one of the Best Lawyers in America for several years running and has received numerous honors for his work in environmental law and litigation. Rob is a former chair of the Cincinnati Bar Association’s Environmental Law Committee and a graduate of New College in Sarasota, Florida (BA) and the Ohio State University College of Law (JD, cum laude). In 2017, Rob received the international Right Livelihood Award, commonly known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize,” for his years of work on PFOA. Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer’s Twenty-Year Battle against DuPont is his first book.

Robert Bilott is a partner at the law firm Taft Stettinius & Hollister, LLP in Cincinnati, Ohio where he has practiced environmental law and litigation for more than twenty-eight years. He has been selected as one of the Best Lawyers in America for several years running and has received numerous honors for his work in environmental law and litigation. Rob is a former chair of the Cincinnati Bar Association's Environmental Law Committee and a graduate of New College in Sarasota, Florida (BA) and the Ohio State University College of Law (JD, cum laude). In 2017, Rob received the international Right Livelihood Award, commonly known as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize," for his years of work on PFOA. Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle against DuPont is his first book.


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