As part of the Accelerating Climate Resilience series:

Dark Waters

2019, 126 minutes

Based on a New York Times Magazine article, this film by Todd Haynes tells the story of Robert Bilott, a lawyer who waged a long-term battle to bring DuPont to account for its release of toxic ‘forever chemicals’ into a West Virginia town. As played by Mark Ruffalo, Bilott was an unlikely crusader, as he was a corporate attorney in a comfortable Cincinnati firm, but he had familial ties to the Appalachian culture that was being blighted by its main employer. With cattle dying by the hundreds and people showing signs of lethal levels of exposure, Bilott had to sort out which unregulated agent was causing the damage while DuPont did everything it could to impede his progress. The answers Bilott found were indeed chilling, as the damage the company perpetrated over the course of decades was not limited to West Virginia but a global catastrophe.

PLEASE NOTE--This film is RATED PG-13, with drinking, profanity, brief nudity, severe illness, and a veritable nightmare of revelations.