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1. time.com › 5737451Dark Waters and the True Story of Lawyer Rob Bilott | TIME

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   Nov 25, 2019 · November 25, 2019 12:03 PM EST. R ob Bilott, a corporate lawyer-turned-environmental crusader, doesn’t much care if he’s made enemies over the years. “I’ve been dealing with this for ...

2. www.hollywoodreporter.com › lists › true-story-darkThe True Story of 'Dark Waters': How Accurate are the Characters?

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   Nov 30, 2019 · Wilbur Tennant approached West Virginia lawyers, journalists and politicians about his concerns regarding his cows before bringing the case to Bilott. However, nobody wanted to take on a ...

3. www.nytimes.com › 2016/01/10 › magazineThe Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare - The New York ...

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   Jan 6, 2016 · Bilott sought help with the Tennant case from a West Virginia lawyer named Larry Winter. For many years, Winter was a partner at Spilman, Thomas & Battle — one of the firms that represented ...

4. www.typeinvestigations.org › 08 › 18The Case Against DuPont - Type Investigations

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   Aug 18, 2015 · In any case, he was an unlikely person to take on one of the world’s largest chemical companies. A partner at a corporate firm in Cincinnati, Bilott had spent his first eight years as an attorney on the other side of the table, defending large companies like DuPont. But in 1999 a cattle farmer named Wilbur Tennant came to see him.

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5. www.democracynow.org › 2020/1/23 › tim_robbins_rob“Dark Waters”: Meet the Lawyer Whose 20-Year Fight Against ...

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   Jan 23, 2020 · WILBUR TENNANT: [played by Bill Camp] Your grandma tells me her grandson’s some fancy environment lawyer down in Cincinnati. ROB BILOTT : I am a corporate defense attorney. WILBUR TENNANT : So?

6. scienceandfilm.org › articles › 3583Sloan Science & Film - Science and Film

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   Dec 14, 2023 · Bilott tries to communicate to Tennant that he “isn’t that kind of environmental lawyer,” yet Tennant’s exasperated resilience strikes a chord with the compassionate and upstanding ethos of Bilott. He persuades his boss (Tim Robbins) to allow him to pursue the case on a contingency basis. Bill Camp as Earl Tennant

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   Why did Wilbur Tennant bring a case to Bilott?

   • Wilbur Tennant approached West Virginia lawyers, journalists and politicians about his concerns regarding his cows before bringing the case to Bilott. However, nobody wanted to take on a corporation as big as DuPont, primarily because it employed a big chunk of people in the small town.

   The True Story of 'Dark Waters': How Accurate are the Characters?

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   How does Bilott communicate with Tennant?

   • Bilott tries to communicate to Tennant that he “isn’t that kind of environmental lawyer,” yet Tennant’s exasperated resilience strikes a chord with the compassionate and upstanding ethos of Bilott. He persuades his boss (Tim Robbins) to allow him to pursue the case on a contingency basis. Bill Camp as Earl Tennant

   Bilott vs. DuPont: Revisiting Chemicals in DARK WATERS

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   What did Bilott do for the Tennants?

   • He was doing for the Tennants what he would have done for any of his corporate clients — pulling permits, studying land deeds and requesting from DuPont all documentation related to Dry Run Landfill — but he could find no evidence that explained what was happening to the cattle. ‘‘We were getting frustrated,’’ Bilott said.

   The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare

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   Who was Wilbur Tennant?

   • Wilbur Tennant, played by Bill Camp in the film, showed Bilott videos and pictures he had taken of his cows foaming at the mouth and staggering in ways they hadn't before, with lesions covering their hides. Bilott immediately took on the case.

   The True Story of 'Dark Waters': How Accurate are the Characters?

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   What happened to Wilbur Tennant?

   • Wilbur Tennant, who is seen in this video filmed in the late 1990s on his property in West Virginia, died of cancer in 2009 at the age of 67. The study concluded that there was no evidence of toxicity associated with chemical contamination of the environment in relation to the Tennants.

   The Case Against DuPont - Type Investigations

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   Is Bilott based on a true story?

   • As happened in real life, the movie depicts Ruffalo’s Bilott as a lawyer who defends large chemical companies before he is approached for help in 1998 by Wilbur Tennant (Bill Camp), a West Virginia farmer whose land was contaminated by chemical giant DuPont.

   Dark Waters and the True Story of Lawyer Rob Bilott | TIME

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8. scienceandsociety.duke.edu › the-lawyer-who-becameThe lawyer who became Dupont’s worst nightmare | Duke ...

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   Tue, Jan 12. The lawyer who became Dupont’s worst nightmare. Just months before Rob Bilott made partner at Taft Stettinius & Hollister, he received a call on his direct line from a cattle farmer. The farmer, Wilbur Tennant of Parkersburg, W.Va., said that his cows were dying left and right. He believed that the DuPont chemical company, which ...