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Robert Bilott (born August 2, 1965) is an American environmental attorney from Cincinnati, Ohio.Bilott is known for the lawsuits against DuPont on behalf of plaintiffs injured by chemical waste dumped in rural communities in West Virginia.
DuPont could pay up to $3 billion under that settlement. The city of Columbia’s canal drinking water plant is part of one of the state’s largest water systems.
The DuPont Co. and two spin-off firms will pay $110 million to the state of Ohio to settle a lawsuit over environmental threats from toxic chemicals used at a former DuPont facility in neighboring ...
He seeks an agreement for DuPont to pay for medical monitoring for all residents of Parkersburg in one large class-action lawsuit. However, DuPont sends a deceptive letter notifying residents of the presence of PFOA, thus starting the statute of limitations running, giving any further legal action only 12 months to begin.
The district announced its lawsuit Tuesday against 3M Company, DuPont de Nemours, Inc., and other manufacturers of PFAS. The chemicals are found in household materials like Teflon that in recent ...
1950s According to the 2016 lawsuit brought against 3M by Lake Elmo, Minnesota, 3M had "disposed of PFCs and PFC-containing waste at a facility it owned and operated in Oakdale, Minnesota (the "Oakdale Facilities")" during the 1950s. [18] [19] 1951 "The DuPont chemical plant in Washington, West Virginia, began using PFOA in its manufacturing ...
The appellate brief summarizes a history of lawsuits filed against DuPont alleging it discharged forever chemicals “into the air, Ohio River, and landfills without limits” for 50 years ...
[164] [168] By 2015, more than three thousand plaintiffs have filed personal-injury lawsuits against DuPont. [13] In 2017, DuPont reached a $670.7 million cash settlement [169] related to 3,550 personal injury lawsuits tied to PFOA contamination of drinking water in the Parkersburg area. Chemours, which was spun off from DuPont in 2015, agreed ...