WILBUR TENNANT: That’s chemicals, I’m telling you. She has an masters of philosophy from Cambridge University and is the author of The Present as History: Critical Perspectives on Global Power (Columbia University Press). I’m Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh.

TIM ROBBINS: And Rob did probably the most extensive blood work study in the area that the farmer was. Tim? But what we now know is PFOA is just one of many of these man-made synthetic chemicals that are getting out in our water, in our blood, and unfortunately the rest of us don’t have much information about what these other chemicals are doing.

ROBERT BILOTT: Yeah. ROBERT BILOTT: Yeah.

Water contamination is the subject of the recent Hollywood film Dark Waters, which stars our guest Tim Robbins, as well as Mark Ruffalo and Anne Hathaway. ROB BILOTT: Yeah, the study we did in West Virginia ended up being one of the largest studies ever done of a chemical.

They’re hiding something.

NERMEEN SHAIKH: And the new study shows that tap water in 43 cities across the United States is contaminated with toxic chemicals known as PFAS, which have been linked to cancer and lowered fertility. TIM ROBBINS: Oh, sorry.

Support the journalists that have been fighting back against dangerous disinformation since day one: Subscribe to Truthout’s daily newsletter and never miss a story. What we’re talking about is a completely man-made chemical, something that didn’t exist on the planet prior to World War II. His boss saw the merit in it and said to Rob, who just had become a partner in the law firm, “Go ahead and do it.” And 12 years later, Rob was still going on, and it was costing the firm a lot of money. Credible information is our most potent weapon in this strange and terrible age. The movie rolls images of black teeth, birth defects, hovering helicopters, and a fear of car bombs, none of which are among the conditions scientists have documented increase with heavy exposure to these chemicals — though the ones that are are plenty scary: high-blood-pressure, high cholesterol, kidney and testicular cancers, thyroid disease, ulcerative colitis. Democracy Now! So, by the time we finally figured out that this chemical was being used, that it was being emitted into our environment and that it was getting into drinking water all over the country and the blood of virtually every living creature in the planet, it had already been out there and being pumped out into our environment, with really the regulators and the public being completely unaware. U.N. World Food Programme Wins Nobel Peace Prize for Tackling Hunger Amid War, Pandemic & Climate Crisis, Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict: Why Turkey’s Intervention Could Turn It into a “Proxy War”, The Greatest Failure in Presidential History: Kamala Harris Slams Trump/Pence’s Handling of. That makes it tough for Chemours leaders to say they didn’t like where DuPont was taking them. AMY GOODMAN: We’re going to do Part 2 at democracynow.org. Our government is captive to DuPont. ROB BILOTT: Yeah. They’re trying to force you to make me stop. The reality is, less than 1 percent of readers ever donate to Truthout and recently even fewer people are giving.

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He is portrayed by Mark Ruffalo in the Hollywood film Dark Waters. Time Magazine named Democracy Now! PHIL DONNELLY: [played by Victor Garber] At DuPont, better living through chemistry. is a 501(c)3 non-profit news organization.

And as this contamination, the awareness of it, is spreading across the country, we are now bringing a new case, where we’re seeking to represent everyone in the country, who now has these chemicals in their blood. “This is not about money,” Roberts insisted. ROB BILOTT: Yeah, you know, and it really highlights that we’re talking about chemical contamination that goes far beyond — excuse me — far beyond one farmer’s property in West Virginia, even one community in West Virginia and Ohio.

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We had 70,000 people. One-Third of Americans Can’t Pay Their Bills as Stimulus Talks Stall, Pence’s Politeness Masks a Ruthless Ideology. Isn’t that right? And the end result was independent scientific confirmation that this chemical causes diseases, including cancers.

ROBERT BILOTT: Yeah, the study we did in West Virginia ended up being one of the largest studies ever done of a chemical. It’ll be Charlotte, North Carolina, Knight Theater, January 28th through February 2nd; Schenectady, New York; Detroit, Michigan; Seattle, Washington; Durango, Colorado; Iowa City; Folsom, California; and Nashville, Tennessee. Just a month later, Kirsch resigned from Chemours and announced he was taking a job with his brother’s waste disposal business — collecting a million-dollar severance, reported Karl Baker in the Wilmington News Journal. delivered to your inbox every day? Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on more than 1,100 public television and radio stations worldwide.

The Democrats in charge added lawyer Bilott as a witness — alongside Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson, who last year won an even larger settlement of $850 million from hometown giant 3M Corp. for old PFAS contamination.

It almost goes without saying that once the investigation began, as the film portrays, that relationship was quickly squashed – though the scene in which DuPont executive Phil Donnelly (Garbert) hisses " f*ck you, hick," was invented. And most of us, unfortunately, are just now learning about this, even though the information about the toxicity of these chemicals, the fact that it was getting out in the environment, that it would get into us and stay in us, was known by the companies using these materials for decades. Pence’s Handling of COVID Is Straight Out of the Christian Right Playbook, A “Still Infectious” Trump Refuses to Participate in Virtual Debate, Pence Refused to Say Whether Trump Would Accept Election Outcome, Democrats Back Down From Battle With Defense Department Over PFAS, New Data Show Severity of Water Contamination in Poor Neighborhoods, Trump Threatens to Veto First Ever Congressional Action on “Forever Chemicals”.

And that information wasn’t shared with the rest of us. That’s like saying, “What if I swallowed a tire?”. Rob Bilott, thanks so much for joining us.

PHIL DONNELLY: [played by Victor Garber] At DuPont, better living through chemistry. Kirsch shot back that it will cost Chemours “well north of $200 million” to fix the North Carolina wastewater mess, a cost DuPont had estimated at just $2 million. And they’ll use it. The film tells the story of attorney Rob Bilott’s 20-year battle with DuPont over contaminated drinking water in West Virginia from toxic chemicals used to make Teflon. And Oscar-winning actor and director Tim Robbins. He won the Right Livelihood Award in 2017. House Speaker Pelosi Questions Trump’s Fitness as Vice President Pence Returns to D.C. North Dakota Hospitals Fill to Capacity as Coronavirus Cases Surge Nationwide, White House Superspreader Event May Have Exposed Thousands to Coronavirus, Whistleblowing Vaccine Specialist Calls Out Trump’s “Reckless and Deadly” Misinformation, World Logs Record One-Day Coronavirus Toll Amid Exponential Rises in Europe, Ohio Federal Judge Blocks Order Limiting Number of Ballot Drop Boxes, Friends of Trump Accuser Amy Dorris Confirm 1997 Sexual Assault, Human Rights Report Condemns Violence Against, Guatemalan Feminists Demand Justice for Two Women Recently Murdered, Hurricane Delta Bringing “Life-Threatening Storm Surge” to Louisiana Gulf Coast, Iran Blasts “Crime Against Humanity” as Latest U.S. Sanctions Threaten Food Supply, World Food Programme Wins 2020 Nobel Peace Prize, Former Trump Fundraiser Elliott Broidy Charged with Acting as Foreign Agent, Pioneering Transgender Activist & Journalist Monica Roberts Dies at 58, Naomi Klein: I Fear Trump Will Exploit His, Two Presidential Valets Who Carry Nuclear Launch Codes Test Positive for Coronavirus, Federal Officials Ordered to Defend 17-Year-Old Charged with Murdering Protesters. When it comes to waging war, stripping basic rights, election fraud, or a global health crisis, you deserve the truth. to your inbox each morning. ROB BILOTT: It’s a small matter for a family friend, help a guy who needs it. ROB BILOTT: [played by Mark Ruffalo] Hi, Grandmas. What we’re talking about is a completely man-made chemical, something that didn’t exist on the planet prior to World War II. DuPont attorney Phil Donnelly tells him he is not aware of the case but will help out in any way he can. TIM ROBBINS: Yes. EMPTY SUITS DuPont's Phil Donnelly (Victor Garber) hopes it will be business as usual between him and Taft law's Tom Terp (Tim Robbins), but instead he's in for the fight of his life. PHIL DONNELLY: [played by Victor Garber] At DuPont, better living through chemistry. Please make a small one-time or monthly donation so we can amplify the voices of hundreds of journalists, activists and changemakers working tirelessly to turn things around. We focused on one of them, PFOA, and that’s the chemical that you see focused on in the movie and in my book, as well. And they’ll use it.

ROBERT BILOTT: [played by Mark Ruffalo] Hi, Grandmas. ROBERT BILOTT: DuPont is knowingly poisoning 70,000 local residents for the last 40 years. You know, we’re talking about something that’s contamination of really an unprecedented scale: worldwide contamination of water, soil, the blood of humans and animals all over the planet. It’ll be Charlotte, North Carolina, Knight Theater, January 28th through February 2nd; Schenectady, New York; Detroit, Michigan; Seattle, Washington; Durango, Colorado; Iowa City; Folsom, California; and Nashville, Tennessee. ROB BILOTT’S GRANDMOTHER: What are you doing here? AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! In its last quarterly report to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Chemours, a DuPont spin-off, lists a witches’ stew of claims against the plants it inherited: 1,300 lawsuits alleging asbestos exposure “between the 1950s and the 1990s;” 16 alleging “benzene-related illnesses;” 30 lawsuits over perfluorinated and polyfluorinated compounds (PFAS) sold for military firefighting foam at oil refineries, rug factories, a Maine dairy farm, an Indiana smelter, two Delaware electroplating companies, the water system serving the old DuPont Chambers Works in Salem County, N.J., and other locations; and more recent allegations that a Teflon-chemicals replacement, GenX, has gotten into water systems in North Carolina, among others.

William Barber: Millions Are Struggling. Copy may not be in its final form. Mark Vergnano, "who was the executive vice president of the fluorochemicals business and has been so since 2008, is now the CEO of Chemours.” That makes it tough for Chemours leaders to say they didn’t like where DuPont was taking them. At one point the EPA fines DuPont. This is a rush transcript.

But the EPA has been really — has recently been, a secret memo discovered, trying to get rid of the science of that.

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