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Exposure : poisoned water, corporate greed, and one lawyer's twenty-year battle against DuPont / Robert Bilott with Tom Shroder.
In 1998, Bilott was a lawyer specializing in helping big corporations stay on the right side of environmental regulations. He received a call from a West Virginia farmer, Earl Tennant, who was convinced the creek on his property was being poisoned by runoff from a DuPont landfill. Bilott agreed to help Tennant, and discovered documents going back fifty years on the harmful effects of the man-made chemical PFOA (one of a class of chemicals called PFAS) used in making Teflon. Now virtually every person on the planet has been exposed to PFOA-- and carries the chemical in his or her blood. An unforgettable David and Goliath-style legal drama about malice and manipulation, the failings of environmental regulation, and one lawyer's quest to expose the truth about this previously unknown--and still unregulated--chemical that presents one of the greatest human health crises of the 21st century. -- adapted from 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.
- Copyright: ©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 -- Epilogue. |
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| Genre: | Autobiographies. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Albright Memorial Library | 344.0463 BILOTT (Text) | 50686015600211 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Altoona Area Public Library | 344.04 BIL (Text) | 33240004502137 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Annie Halenbake Ross Library | 338.7 Bil (Text) | 00147985 | ADULT Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| Bangor Public Library | 344.04 BIL (Text) | 75011000369675 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Fleetwood Area Public Library | 344.046 BIL (Text) | 33249023126984 | Non-fiction | Available | - |
| Green Free Library (Wellsboro) | 344.04 BIL (Text) | 92523162 | GFWM Main Room | Available | - |
| Lower Macungie Library | 344.04633 BIL (Text) | 33400001471690 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Martin Library | Adults 344.04 BIL Life Times (Text) | 33454005750054 | 2nd Floor | Available | - |
| RACC | HD9651.9.D8 B55 2019 (Text) | 33624024915322 | Books | Available | - |
| Southern Lehigh Public Library | 344.04 BIL (Text)
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This item was purchased in honor of John & Lizbeth Gaughan for their donation to the Southern Lehigh Public Library Helping Hands Campaign 2020-2021.
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