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Narrated by:
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Jeremy Bobb
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Mark Ruffalo - introduction
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By:
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Robert Bilott
About this listen
The story that inspired the major 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 revealed 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 spawned 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.©2019 Robert Bilott (P)2019 Simon & Schuster UK
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- luke_jnr
- 21-03-24
Shocking true story, recommend
A very good audiobook on the DuPont story and how they poisoned the world and will probably get away with it too.
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- Amazon Customer
- 21-09-21
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Must listen. Rob is a hero. Corporations will be the death of this planet. Dark Waters is the film version.
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- j
- 04-09-24
Fascinating, worth a listen
It’s long but very interesting - great balance of technical, legal and social aspects. Also shocking, though perhaps not surprising. Much better than the film, which is good too.
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- Morgan
- 08-07-21
Riveting stuff
Loved it. very awe inspiring, motivational heartwarming. kept my attention from start to finiah. highly reccommend.
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- Julia
- 19-01-22
A must read!
Absolutely fantastic work, well read: this is a story that must be told and more importantly needs to be heard.
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- L Wates
- 24-08-20
Something everyone should know
Having seen the film Dark Waters and watched a couple of documentaries about the case, I found this book compelling. it goes into much more detail than the film or documentaries and shows the lengths DuPont went to in order to get away with poisoning millions of people. An incredible story of one man's determination.
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