Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer`s Twenty-Year Battle Against DuPont, Bilott Robert

Автор: Bilotta Vanessa
Название: The Homeschool Guide: Everything you need to know for successfully homeschooling your children!
ISBN: 1761030647 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781761030642
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Описание: This book will teach you what things you need to do and consider before beginning to teach your child. It will help you decide whether homeschooling is right for you, and take you through everything involved. It includes helpful tips that will assist in teaching your child, and in setting up a home learning environment.

Автор: Bilott Robert
Название: Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer`s Twenty-Year Battle Against DuPont
ISBN: 1797103431 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781797103433
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Описание: Silent Spring meets Erin Brockovich in this eye-opening, riveting true story of the lawyer who spent two decades building a case against DuPont for its use of the hazardous, unregulated chemical PFOA, uncovering a history of environmental contamination that affects virtually every person on the planet, and the heartless behavior that kept it a secret for sixty years. The story that inspired the forthcoming major motion picture from Participant Media/Focus Features starring Mark Ruffalo and Anne Hathaway, directed by Todd Haynes.1998: Rob Bilott is a young lawyer specializing in helping big corporations stay on the right side of environmental laws and regulations. His life and career take an unexpected turn when he gets a phone call from a West Virginia farmer named Earl Tennant. Earl is convinced the creek on his property is being poisoned by runoff from a neighboring DuPont landfill. His cattle are dying in hideous ways, as is much of the surrounding wildlife. Earl hasn't even been able to get a water sample tested by any state or federal regulatory agency or find a local lawyer willing to take the case. As soon as they hear the name DuPont--the area's largest employer--they shut him down. Once Rob sees the thick, foamy water that bubbles into the creek, the gruesome effects it seems to have on livestock, and the disturbing frequency of cancer and other health problems in the surrounding area, he's persuaded to fight against the type of corporation his firm routinely represents. After intense legal wrangling, Rob ultimately gains access to hundreds of thousands of pages of DuPont documents, some of them fifty years old, that reveal the company has been holding onto decades of studies proving the harmful effects of a chemical called PFOA, used in making Teflon. PFOA is often called a "forever chemical," because once inside the body, it remains there for a long period of time, building up faster than the body can excrete it, and once in the environment, it does not break down or degrade for millions of years, contaminating the planet forever. Although aware of these properties, DuPont kept its scientific findings from the public while at the same time dumping hundreds of thousands of pounds of PFOA waste into the Ohio River and landfills. The case of one farmer soon spawns a class action suit on behalf of seventy thousand residents--and the shocking realization that virtually every person on the planet has been exposed to PFOA and carries the chemical in his or her blood. What emerges is an unforgettable, David and Goliath-style legal drama about malice and manipulation, the failings of environmental regulation; and one lawyer's twenty-year struggle to expose the truth about this previously unknown--and still unregulated--chemical that we all have inside us.

Автор: Bilotto Gregory, Dilorenzo Frank
Название: Building Grand Central Terminal
ISBN: 1540215989 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781540215987
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Автор: Bilott Robert
Название: Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer`s Twenty-Year Battle Against DuPont
ISBN: 1501172816 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501172816
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Цена: 25750.00 T
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Описание: Silent Spring meets Erin Brockovich in this eye-opening, riveting true story of the lawyer who spent two decades building a case against DuPont for its use of the hazardous, unregulated chemical PFOA, uncovering a history of environmental contamination that affects virtually every person on the planet, and the heartless behavior that kept it a secret for sixty years.

The story that inspired the forthcoming major motion picture from Participant Media/Focus Features starring Mark Ruffalo and Anne Hathaway, directed by Todd Haynes.

1998: Rob Bilott is a young lawyer specializing in helping big corporations stay on the right side of environmental laws and regulations. His life and career take an unexpected turn when he gets a phone call from a West Virginia farmer named Earl Tennant. Earl is convinced the creek on his property is being poisoned by runoff from a neighboring DuPont landfill. His cattle are dying in hideous ways, as is much of the surrounding wildlife. Earl hasn't even been able to get a water sample tested by any state or federal regulatory agency or find a local lawyer willing to take the case. As soon as they hear the name DuPont--the area's largest employer--they shut him down.

Once Rob sees the thick, foamy water that bubbles into the creek, the gruesome effects it seems to have on livestock, and the disturbing frequency of cancer and other health problems in the surrounding area, he's persuaded to fight against the type of corporation his firm routinely represents. After intense legal wrangling, Rob ultimately gains access to hundreds of thousands of pages of DuPont documents, some of them fifty years old, that reveal the company has been holding onto decades of studies proving the harmful effects of a chemical called PFOA, used in making Teflon. PFOA is often called a "forever chemical," because once inside the body, it remains there for a long period of time, building up faster than the body can excrete it, and once in the environment, it does not break down or degrade for millions of years, contaminating the planet forever. Although aware of these properties, DuPont kept its scientific findings from the public while at the same time dumping hundreds of thousands of pounds of PFOA waste into the Ohio River and landfills. The case of one farmer soon spawns a class action suit on behalf of seventy thousand residents--and the shocking realization that virtually every person on the planet has been exposed to PFOA and carries the chemical in his or her blood.

What emerges is an unforgettable, David and Goliath-style legal drama about malice and manipulation, the failings of environmental regulation; and one lawyer's twenty-year struggle to expose the truth about this previously unknown--and still unregulated--chemical that we all have inside us.

Автор: Bilotta Sr Barrett J.
Название: Scolded Angels
ISBN: 0984883746 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780984883745
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Описание: In the late 1970s Joe "Angel" Angelino, now a family man and career Navy pilot at South Weymouth Naval Air Station outside of Boston, struggles with post-traumatic stress from his aerial combat tours in Vietnam, which begins to intrude upon his military performance and family life. He is irritable and shaken by nightmares that spring up from the long repressed stress of over 300 combat missions, including being shot down over North Vietnam. Although he and his RIO officer Paul were rescued deep in the jungle by Marines, Paul was injured permanently, never fully regaining his health. After many years have passed, Paul and Angel are reunited at a nearby Boston veterans' hospital. Through Angel's personal struggles and his battle with the military bureaucracy, Angel seeks and finds an innovative way to help traumatized homeless vets, organizing a group of vets to rebuild a vintage P-51 fighter plane to fly across America and raise the consciousness of the public regarding the forgotten Vietnam veterans who continue to suffer. For additional details visit: www.TheBosonTrilogy.com

Автор: Bilotta Sr Barrett
Название: The Tenement
ISBN: 0984883738 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780984883738
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