“The ecocides that changed the law” (3/4). In the United States, the stubbornness of lawyer Robert Bilott, from the end of the 1990s, led to the condemnation of the DuPont group, responsible in West Virginia for a large-scale contamination by PFOA. This chemical compound of Teflon, carcinogenic and impossible to eliminate, has since been banned in Europe.
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