Exposure : poisoned water, corporate greed, and one lawyer’s twenty-year battle against DuPont

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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. -- 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. -- adapted from jacket.  Read more... 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.