Robert Bilott on PFAS, Dark Waters and Fighting Forever Chemicals
Host Sean Grady interviews attorney Robert Bilott live from the AHMP EHS Hazmat Summit in Louisville, Kentucky. Bilott, the lawyer whose work inspired the film Dark Waters, shares his decades-long fight against DuPont over PFAS contamination, the failures of early chemical disclosure, and the challenges of pushing the EPA to regulate forever chemicals. He discusses his book Exposure, the ongoing litigation nationwide, the impact on water utilities and ratepayers, and how consumer demand is forcing change. Bilott also explains how states like New Jersey and Minnesota are leading regulation, the global scope of PFAS contamination, and the need for new technology and laws to address the crisis.
Robert Bilott
Attorney / Author
Partner in the Environmental Practice Area of the Litigation Department in the Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Offices of Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP, and author of the book, “Exposure” and attorney behind the movie "Dark Waters". Representing corporate, governmental, and individual clients in wide range of environmental, regulatory and toxic tort matters in federal and state courts and administrative entities across the country. Handling complex mass tort, multi-district, class action, cost-recovery, environmental permitting, medical monitoring, and common law tort actions for both defense and plaintiffs, with extensive experience in several of the nation's first cases involving human exposures to perfluorochemicals (PFCs), such as PFOA and PFOS.
Practice Areas: - Toxic Torts, including Bodily Trespass/Toxic Trespass
- Class Actions/Multi-District Litigation
- Environmental Permits
- Drinking Water Litigation
- Cost-Recovery Litigation
- Perfluorochemical (PFC) Claims/Litigation (including PFOA and PFOS)
- Environmental Compliance Counseling
