Exposure (Bilott book)
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Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle against DuPont is the 2019 memoir by Robert Bilott, an American environmental attorney at Taft Stettinius & Hollister. The book follows Bilott's personal and professional journey through the litigation that revealed a global crisis of persistent organic pollution due to PFOA and PFAS, referred to as "forever chemicals." For its contribution to broadening public awareness of environmental hazard, Exposure received the 2020 Green Prize for Sustainable Literature from the Santa Monica Public Library.[1]
Author | Robert Bilott |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Publisher | Atria Publishing Group |
Publication date | October 8, 2019 |
Pages | 400 |
ISBN | 9781501172816 |
The book was published in the United States in 2019 by Atria Books/Simon & Schuster.[2] It was released in hardcover on October 8, 2019, and in paperback on July 15, 2020.
The audiobook version (also available through Atria Books) is narrated by Jeremy Bobb. The first chapter narrated by actor Mark Ruffalo, who plays Bilott in the movie Dark Waters (2019), based on these events as reported in a 2016 New York Times feature article.
The book was published for the United Kingdom by Simon & Schuster UK, and has been translated into Chinese for its release on the Chinese market on November 28, 2022.[3] On April 6, 2023, the book was translated into Japanese and released on the Japanese market.[4]