Toxic True Crime

摘要

THE IDEA FOR A HOLLYWOOD FILM about a class of chemicals came in 2016, when actor Mark Ruffalo called up Rob Bi-lott, a lawyer in Cincinnati. The Avengers star, an anti-fracking activist, had just read an article in The New York Times Magazine chronicling Bilott's 20-year battle against the chemical company DuPont—the maker of Teflon, a synthetic coating that makes pans nonstick and rain gear waterproof. Many of those products contain PFAS, toxic chemicals that have contaminated US water supplies since the 1940s.