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ERIN BROCKOVICH matches SILENT SPRING with this astounding true tale of a lawyer who spent two decades creating a case against one of the world’s largest chemical companies, uncovering a shocking background of environmental air pollution and heartless cover-up.

The storyplot that inspired the forthcoming major film from Participant Mass media/Focus Features, starring Tag Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, Expenses Pullman and Tim Robbins, directed by Todd Haynes.

In 1998, Robert Bilott was a 33-year-old about Exposure Cincinnati lawyer around the verge of earning partner when his profession and life took an unforeseen switch. He was used by shock when he received a contact from a man called Earl Tennant, a farmer from Western Virginia with a slight connection to Robert’s family. Earl was confident the creek on his real estate, where his cattle grazed, had been poisoned by run-off from a neighbouring manufacturer landfill. His cattle had been dying in hideous methods, and he hadn’t also been able to get a drinking water sample tested by local companies, politicians or vets. As soon as they heard the name DuPont – the area’s largest employer – he experienced they were hesitant to investigate further.

Once Robert noticed the thick, foamy water that bubbled in to the creek, the gruesome effects it appeared to have on livestock, as well as the disturbing frequency of cancer and lung complications in the encompassing region, he was persuaded to fight the sort of company his firm regularly represented. With all the credit cards stacked against him, Rob occurred upon a stray reference in a arbitrary memo to a chemical substance known as PFOA – a element he’d never heard of that is used in the manufacture of Teflon. From that 1 reference, he eventually gained access to 110,000 pages of DuPont papers, some of them fifty years of age, that reveal years of medical studiesproving the harmful – generally fatal – effects of PFOA in pets and humans. Yet PFOA sludge got still been dumped into rivers and landfill, endangering many lives. The situation of one farmer shortly spawns a class-action fit and the shocking realisation that virtually every person on earth has been exposed to PFOA and carries the chemical substance in his / her blood.

This is actually the unforgettable story from the lawyer who worked tirelessly for two decades to get justice for all people who had suffered as a result of this chemical.