num_pages: 400
description: For Erin Brockovich fans a David vs. Goliath tale with a twist. The New York Times Book Review The story that inspired the major motion picture Dark Waters starring Mark Ruffalo as Robert Bilott.In 1998 Rob Bilott began a legal battle against DuPont that would consume the next twenty years of his life uncovering the worst case of environmental contamination in modern history and a corporate cover-up that put the health of hundreds of thousands of people at risk. Representing a single farmer who was convinced the creek on his property had been poisoned by runoff from a nearby DuPont landfill Rob ultimately discovers the truth about PFASunregulated toxic chemicals used in the manufacturing of Teflon and a host of other household goods. DuPonts own scientists had issued internal warnings for years about the harmful effects of PFAS on human health but the company continued to allow these chemicals to leach into public drinking water. Until Rob forced them to face the consequences. Exposure is an unforgettable legal drama about malice and manipulation the failings of environmental regulation and one lawyers quest to expose the truth about this previously unknownand still unregulatedchemical that presents one of the greatest human health crises of the 21st century.
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title: Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle against DuPont
publisher: Atria Books