Parkersburg Wv Dupont Movie
In response dupont s in house lawyer bernard reilly informed him that dupont and.
Parkersburg wv dupont movie. Parkersburg is ground. Seen from parkersburg west virginia where the chemical pfoa leeched into the water supply. As a linchpin bolstering dark waters case as a message movie the events depicted on the tennant cattle farm in parkersburg west virginia really ought to be accurate and for the most part. The company knew that pfoa is toxic in 1961.
O v e r v i e w it s time to. Bilott filed a federal suit against dupont in the summer of 1999 in the southern district of west virginia. Lexi browning 100 days in appalachia in 2015 dupont spun off its chemical division into a new company called chemours which now occupies the washington works facility on the ohio. Dupont s washington works plant dupont began using pfoa to manufacture teflon at its washington works plant in 1951.
In 1981 dupont found evidence of birth defects in babies born to female employees who worked in its west virginia plant and decides to pull female employees from. Movie city news. It stars mark ruffalo as bilott along with anne hathaway tim robbins bill camp victor garber mare. Pfoa entered the local water table which supplied drinking water to the communities of parkersburg vienna little hocking and lubeck more than 100 000 people in all.
In 2004 dupont paid 70 million in a class action lawsuit. In 2017 dupont and its spinoff company chemours agreed to settle a lawsuit with roughly 3 500 people living near the parkersburg plant in both west virginia and ohio. The chemical seeped into the water supplies of the communities of lubeck and little hocking immediately west of parkersburg and the city of belpre ohio just across the river. Dupont s own documentation specified that c8 was not to be flushed into surface waters but the company did so for decades.
But that s not even where the story ends. And three other water systems. Eventually dupont put 70 million into a community health and education project according to salon. The 20 year legal battle with dupont that started with one west virginia farmer.
Dark waters is a 2019 american legal thriller film directed by todd haynes and written by mario correa and matthew michael carnahan the story dramatizes robert bilott s case against the chemical manufacturing corporation dupont after they contaminated a town with unregulated chemicals.