The Farmer Who Took On One Of The World's Biggest Chemical Corporations
Editor's note: In 1999, Robert Bilott sued E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co, better known as DuPont, on behalf of a West Virginia farmer whose cows were dying. Over the course of that lawsuit, Bilott discovered that DuPont had been using a chemical called PFOA in the production of Teflon for decades, while quietly studying its effects on lab animals and factory workers.
The Farmer Who Took On One Of The World's Biggest Chemical Corporations