Parkersburg Wv Vs Dupont
The washington works dupont plant in parkersburg wv on october 28 2015.
Parkersburg wv vs dupont. A vehicle slows down at the corner of fourth and market streets in parkersburg west virginia on nov. Pfoa is a processing aid widely used by many manufacturers to produce a broad range of industrial and. 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. Bilott filed a federal suit against dupont in the summer of 1999 in the southern district of west virginia.
Dark waters tells the chilling true story of dupont. Played by julia roberts in an award winning performance in a movie by the same name the film told the story of erin who despite her lack of formal legal education was instrumental in. The company knew that pfoa is toxic in 1961. 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 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. Dupont s washington works plant dupont began using pfoa to manufacture teflon at its washington works plant in 1951. The 20 year legal battle with dupont that started with one west virginia farmer. 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. 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. In response dupont s in house lawyer bernard reilly informed him that dupont and.