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Exposure (Paperback)
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List price R317
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ERIN BROCKOVICH meets SILENT SPRING in this astounding true story
of a lawyer who spent two decades building a case against one of
the world's largest chemical companies, uncovering a shocking
history of environmental pollution and heartless cover-up. The
story that inspired the motion picture from Participant Media/Focus
Features, starring Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, Bill Pullman and
Tim Robbins, directed by Todd Haynes. In 1998, Robert Bilott was a
33-year-old Cincinnati lawyer on the verge of making partner when
his career and life took an unforeseen turn. He was taken by
surprise when he received a call from a man named Earl Tennant, a
farmer from West Virginia with a slight connection to Robert's
family. Earl was convinced the creek on his property, where his
cattle grazed, was being poisoned by run-off from a neighbouring
factory landfill. His cattle were dying in hideous ways, and he
hadn't even been able to get a water sample tested by local
agencies, politicians or vets. As soon as they heard the name
DuPont - the area's largest employer - he felt they were reluctant
to investigate further. Once Robert saw the thick, foamy water that
bubbled into the creek, the gruesome effects it seemed to have on
livestock, and the disturbing frequency of cancer and lung problems
in the surrounding area, he was persuaded to fight against the type
of corporation his firm routinely represented. With all the cards
stacked against him, Rob happened upon a stray reference in a
random memo to a chemical called PFOA - a substance he'd never
heard of that is used in the manufacture of Teflon. From that one
reference, he ultimately gained access to 110,000 pages of DuPont
documents, some of them fifty years old, that reveal decades of
medical studies proving the harmful - more often than not fatal -
effects of PFOA in animals and humans. And yet PFOA sludge had
still been dumped into rivers and landfill, endangering many lives.
The case of one farmer soon spawns a class-action suit and the
shocking realisation that virtually every person on the planet has
been exposed to PFOA and carries the chemical in his or her blood.
This is the unforgettable story of the lawyer who worked tirelessly
for twenty years to get justice for all those who had suffered
because of this chemical.
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