TAKING THE 'FOREVER' OUT OF 'FOREVER' CHEMICALS

摘要

When Earl Tennant first reached out to environmental attorney Rob Bilott about the mysterious ailments befalling the cows on his West Virginia farm, no one was talking about "forever chemicals." In 1998, few people had heard of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), a persistent fluorinated chemical nicknamed "C8" that the nearby DuPont plant was using to manufacture Teflon.