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The state of West Virginia,
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issued the DuPont companya permit,
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for them to runtheir contaminated waste water,
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down through two farms here,out into this stream of water.
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This is, uh,151 of these animals,
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that died on this farm up here,since this stuff's been coming down through this water.
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And they wanna tryand keep everything hushed up.
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Like it is some kind of big secret of some kind,that they're dumping it in here.
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They won't tell us what it is.
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They don't wanna talk to me.
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Because I'm justan old dumb farmer,
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I'm not supposedto know anything.
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But it's not gonnabe covered up,
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because I'm gonna bring it outin the open for people to see.
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American production has become the most efficient in the world.
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And as a result,all factories and industrial plants
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are turning out an everincreasing amount of goods.
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Things that peoplewant and need.
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DuPont research chemists developed a new and unique white substance.
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The result is the greatestadvance in cookware.
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DuPont Teflon.
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There are two different types
of fry pans.
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This non-stick finish for cookware never needs scouring.
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All kinds of burnt foodscome out quickly and easily.
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Corn muffinsdon't stick to Teflon.
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Fudge cakesdon't stick to Teflon.
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Even sticky buns don't stickto Teflon.
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Almost nothing sticks to it.
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DuPont Teflon saves me
lots of dirty work.
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It's so easy to clean.
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This seal means DuPont
has approved finish,
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there is no stick
and it's easy to clean.
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So lookfor the Teflon DuPont seal.
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- Look for the seal.- Look for the seal.
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Look for this sticker.
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Well,
it sounds great but is it really safe to cook in?
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I was working.
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And I had made an arrangement for you guys to get your picture taken.
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- This one... This one right here?
- Mmm-hmm.
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I always tell
with this picture. It just...
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I just look at this
and I just...
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This is
William Bailey III, Buck.
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You were six years old.
You went to Jeb Stuart Middle school.
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In kindergarten, '86 and '87.
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I just... I don't know,
I feel so bad for that kid.
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Yeah, not because of anything
you... Just because...
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The times were hard,
I knew you guys were working as hard as you could.
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And I'm wearing
a velvet green shirt, you know?
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Uh, I just remember,
it was my first year of school.
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That I actually went to school with kids.
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- And I stood out.
- Yeah.
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That was when you were
first born.
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How long do they wait
to take pictures?!
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I'm sure they wanted to get that one taken right away because--
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There was chance
that I might not make it.
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That's what they said.
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When Bucky was born,I went into shock.
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He was born with half ofa nose, one nostril,
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a serrated eyelid,
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and a keyhole pupil where the iris and retina is not connected.
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You could tellhe was in distress,
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because he couldn'tbreathe really well.
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I was scared to deathto hold that baby.
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I was scared he wasgonna die in my arms.
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Your dad didn't stay with me that night,
I didn't want him to.
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We just,
each one of us wanted to be just alone with our thoughts.
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You know.
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And he, you know...
He didn't know whether to go with you...
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Or stay with me.
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When I waspregnant with Bucky,
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I worked forDuPont around Teflon.
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They tried to blame me,they said it was something that I did.
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And the more they would tell me that,the more suspicious I got.
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But I didn't know whatI'd been exposed to.
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And the first day thatI went back to work,
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someone in our locker roomsaid a girl that worked there,
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had a babythat had deformities.
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We got to talking about it.
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It was just like Bucky.
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She worked around Teflon too.
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♪ May the good Lordbless and keep you ♪
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♪ Whether near or far away ♪
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Those traditional ones.
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I like that song.
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My dad used
to sing to my mom.
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She'd get about
half t'd off at him.
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He'd had a little beer.
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♪ You are my sunshine ♪
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♪ My only sunshine ♪
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He could make her cry.
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I'm from Parkersburg,West Virginia.
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Been here all my life.
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I ended up getting married,having children and settling down in this area.
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I started with DuPont, 1962.
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And I was therealmost 40 years.
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In Teflon land.
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First time I heardthat Teflon might be dangerous,
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I was told by a supervisor.
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We feared that it might be detrimental to the women who are pregnant.
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So we sent all the women home but it won't hurt the men.
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That's the first time I...
And I questioned him.
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I said, "It won'thurt the men?"
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He said, "Oh, no, Ken,don't worry about it." As far as we know.
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Can I have another bottle
of that B12?
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It's one of those.
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- Yeah, we have the 50.
- This will do it.
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You didn't have Colostrum,
do you?
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- You didn't have that day.
- Yes, we do.
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That's the thing...
When I was going through the cancer real bad,
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I started taking Colostrum.
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And it helped me get through all the surgeries,
and all...
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I couldn't hardly get out
the chair, I was so weak.
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Well,
when they removed the women from Teflon it was a big shock to me.
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They just don't do that.
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I knew right thenit was a big cover up.
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And see, all that timewhen I was pregnant,
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I was in direct contactwith the chemicals.
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I did tell 'em,I told 'em right to their face.
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I said, "I know you're
responsible for it.
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And you've lied",
and they're still lying.
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But I knew I couldn't quit because I needed the insurance.
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Bucky needed help right then.
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The first surgery I had, they...They had on my eye.
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From the time I was a few months old to five years old,
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I probably hadabout 30 surgeries.
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Initially, I accepted it and I just thought I was dealt a bad hand.
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I mean,
I cared about what I looked like, obviously,
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I looked in the mirror
every single day.
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So there were things I cared
about my appearance.
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But my parents were pretty...They wanted me to be cool with who I was.
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Back offof you little bit.
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And here's a handsomelooking guy.
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- Be 13, January the 15th.- January the 15th.
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Thirteen years old.
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I remember walking into
seventh grade for the first day of school,
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and every personjust looking at me.
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I was like, "This is awesome...
This is great, yeah."
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Bucky's playingwith the video game.
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And then going through the next phase of surgery where I had
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a balloon implanted into
my forehead,
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and they would fill that up with saline to stretch the skin.
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Which they would bring down and you know,use for my nose.
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There is no pain that I've ever gone through that was greater than that.
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I mean, migrainetimes a thousand.
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To go home and to have that pain and for my dad to walk in and say,
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"Hey, get up, put your hat on,we're going out."
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And I'm like, "I'm not going out, Dad,
I just got out of the hospital.
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You know, I'm not leaving,
look at me, Dad."
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He's like, "You look fine."
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He's like, "Look we're gonna
go out."
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He's like, "You know, the shoes you wanted,those Airwalks you wanted?"
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He's like, "Let's go...Let's go pick out a pair."
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And you know just...
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Just thinking
about how he never gave up.
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You know, he always
pushed me.
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Easy, easy.
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He neverwanted me to sulk.
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I'm cool.
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He never wanted meto be down on who I was.
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And my mom was the same way.
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They never let me justbe affected by it.
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They were always leadingme through it.
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You know,it really didn't bug me too much growing up as a kid.
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I was just worried about you know,making it through the next day in school.
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But it was kind of comingto a point when I was 18-19.
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I stopped thinking about how I had been dealt a bad hand,
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and that was justmy lot in life.
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Just thinking about,
"I need an answer."
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You know, "I need to know
what's going on,
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I need to know
why this happened."
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I want you to noticehis height.
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I want you to notice what hiseyes look like.
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They're born that way.
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Now, I never saw nothinglike this in my life.
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It's very unusual.
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Wilbur Tennant was a farmer who sold part of his land to DuPont.
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The piece that DuPont had was adjacentto his property that he continued to own.
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In their negotiations aroundthis, they said,
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that they were gonna use his land for non-hazardous waste.
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But very quickly he noticed
changes in the water.
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This is whatI've been talking about.
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We haven't had any rainfor several days.
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This sud has been herefor a while.
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And he noticed that little things,little fish began to die.
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And he began to finddead animals.
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I've taken dead deer and dead cattle off this river right here.
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And every veterinarianthat I've called
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will not return my phone calls or they don't want to get involved.
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We are now on the record and our time is 9:01 a.m.
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Our opponent today
is Bernard J. Reilly.
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Our court reporter is Michelle Grey,
who will now swear in.
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Can you please raise you right
hand and swear the testimony you are about
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to give is the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God?
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Yes, I do.
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Let's look at LP-2.
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Yeah,this is to Tom Adams.
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Who's Tom Adams?
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- He's an old friend I met in the army.
- Mmm-hmm.
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Okay, so let's
go ahead and read.
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"The shit is about to hit
the fan in West Virginia."
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Go ahead why don't you read
it because you wrote it.
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Sure.
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"The shit is about to hit
the fan in West Virginia, WV,
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the lawyer for the farmer finally realizes the surfactant issue.
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He is threatening to go to the press to
embarrass us to pressure for big bucks."
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You want me to read
the bad word?
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Yeah, it says,
"Fuck him."
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That's what it says.
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I apologize to anybody that's sensitive about bad words.
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Well, you wrote it.
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- I was writing to an old army friend.
- Right.
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Every case, in a complex case,
there's several parts to it.
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One part is the work up.
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That means findingthe documents.
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It means trying to take some basic depositions to find out who did what.
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Why did they do certain things?How did they do certain things?
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That's calledthe discovery process.
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The documents in this case...
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They really tell the storyabout what the company knew.
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Isn't it a good thing
the company kept this?
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'Cause we can go back and look at history.
It is a good thing,
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that they kept these documents,
isn't it?
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You are saying
its a good thing?
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Mr. Papantonio, you can
frame that any way you want.
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The back story of thiscase is interesting.
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It started with a lawyernamed Rob Bilott,
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he's a corporate defenselawyer by trade.
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And so this corporate defense lawyer
gets this case and he starts looking at it.
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When we got into the litigation with DuPont,
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we got access to a lot of theinternal documents.
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And we found out that DuPont and anothercompany called 3M had been studying this chemical
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dating back to the 1950s
and 1960s.
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Dr Karrh you're
being handed exhibit 30.
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I ask you to take a look at that and tell
me if you can identify this document.
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Yes, I can.
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The heart of the case is,
this plant in West Virginia,
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they make Teflon,
they make Teflon that is used for all types of sources.
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C-8 is one of the elementsthey need to make Teflon.
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PFOS, PFOA, C-8,
these are all names for this group of miracle chemicals,
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that came out of primarily 3M, initially,and out of DuPont.
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I started at DuPont, 1981.
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Most of my career was spent in the new product development end.
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Teflon is a very generic term.
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The active ingredientin it is Fluorine.
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You hear the wordF in that right?
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PFOA, PFOS, anything withthe F in it.
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It is something you want
to be very weary of.
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These chemicals have
these wondrous properties.
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Non-stick, oil repellent.Water repellent.
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How do you recall C-8 first coming to your attention?
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The first recollection
I have of it is when
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the supplier of the chemical,
the 3M company,
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provided DuPont with some
information about rats
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that had been subjectedto exposure of the chemical.
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3M had some test data,
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indicating potential birth defects here,in the eyes of rat fetuses,
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following exposureto C-8, correct?
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That's correct.
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So you did see?
There was a substantial risk,
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to the women at the DuPont
plant who were exposed to C-8.
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Enough to remove them
from further exposure, correct?
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No. No. No.
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There was no potential
risk to the women.
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Based on the 3M study there was potential risk to the fetus.
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"Parker has brought WV another long meeting
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to describe to the plant folkswhere the guy who is
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suing us over his cattlegrazing downstream,
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of our landfill would crucify us before a jury.
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Most simply do not believe how big and bad we would look,
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and how sympathetic a farmer would look before a jury,
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even though he is a con man."
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You calling Mr.
Tennant a con man?
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This is a letter to my sonI can tell you.
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But are you calling
him a con man?
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To his face.
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And when you called him a con man,did you know how many of his cattle had died?
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The short answer is I did not know how many of his cattle had died.
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Within a couple of years his entire herd died.
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For Tennant,it was his livelihood.
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"Advantages of settling."Do you see that?
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Yes.
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"It says C-8, in the stream,
we never told them."
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Right? See that?
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That's what it says.
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When did you first become involved with APFO or C-8?
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I was first aware of it
prior to 1977.
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Knowing that...
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Perfluorinated materials
had been found in human blood.
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At first,3M and DuPont were checking to see
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the contamination levelsof their workers.
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And so naturally they neededa control.
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They needed to compare those workers
blood levels of C-8 with the population.
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So they could see what
the difference was.
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So they started goingto archived bloody supplies,
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and checking to seewhat clean blood
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versus the blood of their workers might look like.
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There was no clean blood.
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They tested kids, they tested adults,they went to Asia.
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They went all over the world and everywhere they looked practically,
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they found their chemicalsin people's blood.
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Eventually, they did find some clean blood.
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It turned out it was the blood
that had been taken,
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from army recruits and archived, saved,
at the start of the Korean War.
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That blood was cleanbecause the Teflon chemicals
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weren't out into
the environment at that point.
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The main sources of exposure are still something of a mystery.
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The likely culprits thoughare industrial waste,
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and the consumer products that shed this material over time.
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Today, every babyprobably on the planet,
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but certainlyin the developed world,
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where all of these chemicalsare widely used,
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every baby is born withat least some level,
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of C-8, of PFOS and PFOAin their blood.
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That's the essence of exposure,lifelong exposure.
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And it's involuntary.
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No one said, "Hey, you know,
I'm good with a little Teflon chemical
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in my baby's blood.
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No one said that.
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They said, "I love these pans."
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We think of these chemicals as associated with 3M and DuPont,
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but they had also sold
them to other companies,
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that manufactured consumer products,manufacturing products.
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It was used in airplanes and cars,on and on the applications were endless.
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Workers are now
using Teflon to rust proof the inside
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of The Statue of Liberty.
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I found that these chemical products could bond paper products to make
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food wraps, grease proof wraps,cookie bags.
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One of the largest companies had patents for making popcorn bags.
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Thousands of facilities,including the furniture store down the street,
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that sprayed a non-stick chemical on your couch to keep stains off,
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all of those places became environmental contamination sites.
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And today a productthat you'll find
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Teflon is in
clothing and things.
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Gore-Tex is the brand name...
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And then you realize that companies in Asia and in Europe,
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were starting to makethese chemicals as well.
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This crisis has been growing
for decades.
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And I think with a chemical that is potentially biopersistent
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you pay particularly
close attention to it.
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Bioaccumulation, biopersistence,
those are fancy words for it.
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What do you mean
by biopersistent?
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When you die
and they bury you,
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you're gonna have it
in your blood.
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C-8 seem to have
half-life of humans.
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Sunlight doesn'tbreak them down,
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microbes don't breakthem down.
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Heat doesn't break them down,
nothing breaks them down.
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They call this Fluorinechemical, "The Devil's piss."
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It was so potent.
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Once it gets into your system,
it remains in your blood.
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My gut tells me the biopersistence issue will kill us.
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Because of an overwhelmingpublic attitude
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that anything that isbiopersistent is harmful.
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And so naturally,these Teflon and Scotchgard chemicals
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permeated the living world.
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We didn't know it at the time,
but the evidence showed that 3M and DuPont...
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They knew all about it.
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00:26:26,459 --> 00:26:28,545
Wow!
What a lovely bunch of coconuts, okay.
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Stay on the gym floor,
the boundary of the gym floor.
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Ready? Go!
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Oh, no!
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Gotcha!
364
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What did you do boy?
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Bye, bye, bye.
Whoa, hey!
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Good job, good job, good job.
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Yahoo! Thank you!
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00:27:03,872 --> 00:27:04,956
Bye!
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I love kids.Of course I'm a school teacher, you know.
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00:27:13,423 --> 00:27:15,925
And that's the thing that drove me more than anything.
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00:27:17,010 --> 00:27:19,846
You know, I don't consider
myself a whistleblower,
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more or less a fact finder.
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Joe has a courtyard out back,
he calls it his man-cave.
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00:27:31,483 --> 00:27:33,443
And we were out there
just talking on a normal day.
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I know it was October.
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I had goneto the mailbox that afternoon,
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and I saw this envelope.
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And it was from Lubeckpublic water department.
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I opened it and there wasa letter in with my water bill,
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stating that DuPont needed to know if Iasked if there was a chemical in our water.
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They called it C-8.
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00:28:00,970 --> 00:28:02,180
I thought, "What's this about?"
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I read it.
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I really didn't give itmuch thought.
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00:28:15,693 --> 00:28:18,405
DuPont says according to their standards it's healthy.
386
00:28:18,613 --> 00:28:19,656
Hey, okay.
387
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:23,618
DuPont says its safe,it's safe. Why question it?
388
00:28:33,628 --> 00:28:36,673
I was testing C-8 as soon as I started in my lab,more or less.
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00:28:37,882 --> 00:28:39,008
From the get-go.
390
00:28:39,592 --> 00:28:41,261
They always picked on me
for new jobs.
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00:28:41,344 --> 00:28:43,096
They'd always give 'em to me
'cause they knew I'd do it.
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00:28:43,513 --> 00:28:44,514
I'd learn it.
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00:28:48,685 --> 00:28:50,437
Where I was at,
I was isolated.
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I mean, it was a big room...
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With huge cylinders,that were full of C-8,
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00:28:57,610 --> 00:28:58,778
and they would bubble over.
397
00:29:00,363 --> 00:29:03,324
You can think of it like a bubble bath out of control.
398
00:29:04,033 --> 00:29:05,827
That's the best wayof describing it.
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00:29:06,828 --> 00:29:08,830
After they madethe Teflon,
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00:29:08,913 --> 00:29:11,541
it had water that wasdischarged from it.
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00:29:13,168 --> 00:29:15,754
My job was to pumpit out back.
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00:29:17,589 --> 00:29:19,340
So it would godirectly to the river.
403
00:29:22,302 --> 00:29:25,096
As C-8 was being used at that DuPont plant,
404
00:29:25,180 --> 00:29:30,685
3M told DuPont that under no circumstances
should you put it in waterways.
405
00:29:30,769 --> 00:29:32,020
It's right there
in the documents.
406
00:29:32,353 --> 00:29:33,855
Don't put this
in the waterways.
407
00:29:35,523 --> 00:29:38,610
But at the end of the day,they start dumping so much C-8 into the water,
408
00:29:39,569 --> 00:29:41,613
that they, at one point,
lose track
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00:29:41,780 --> 00:29:43,615
of how much they've
actually put out there.
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00:29:46,451 --> 00:29:50,246
DuPont wanted to figure out
how far it had seeped beyond its plant.
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00:29:52,165 --> 00:29:55,919
So a team of folks went out with some jugs,
plastic jars,
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00:29:56,878 --> 00:30:00,256
and went to general stores and went miles down river
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00:30:01,341 --> 00:30:02,634
to collect samples.
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00:30:03,468 --> 00:30:08,515
They found, that in fact,the chemical had gone quite far from the plant.
415
00:30:10,475 --> 00:30:12,310
Their own scientist again and again,
416
00:30:12,435 --> 00:30:13,812
their own lawyers,in fact,
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00:30:13,895 --> 00:30:16,064
told them, you know,we really should tell people about this,
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00:30:16,147 --> 00:30:17,607
'cause they're drinking it,
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00:30:17,774 --> 00:30:19,025
they're bathing in it.
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00:30:21,903 --> 00:30:25,615
Who makes the final decision
as to whether or not,
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00:30:25,824 --> 00:30:29,369
there is a risk that needs to be disclosed to the community?
422
00:30:29,452 --> 00:30:31,913
Well, again risk is relative.
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00:30:37,627 --> 00:30:40,964
When we got the letter,within the next few weeks
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00:30:41,297 --> 00:30:43,716
a friend of ours talked abouttheir granddaughter's
425
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:46,052
teeth turning black and they couldn't understand it.
426
00:30:47,637 --> 00:30:49,722
And I looked over and thereis my neighbor's dog,
427
00:30:49,848 --> 00:30:50,849
tumors all over him.
428
00:30:50,974 --> 00:30:53,184
He couldn't explain it. He said,"I've never seen him like..."
429
00:30:54,853 --> 00:30:58,857
Every time I see somebody get sick it wasn't just a cold or a flu.
430
00:31:00,942 --> 00:31:03,862
Then I heard about these young guys,
two of 'em,
431
00:31:03,945 --> 00:31:06,197
having testicular cancer
in the area.
432
00:31:09,617 --> 00:31:14,914
It got to the point where something just didn't feel right.
433
00:31:16,207 --> 00:31:18,793
And for some reason,don't ask me why or what,
434
00:31:19,002 --> 00:31:21,337
but that letter kept hanging in the back of my head.
435
00:31:21,421 --> 00:31:22,922
I couldn't get it out of my head.
What's that doin' in our water anyway?
436
00:31:31,472 --> 00:31:34,517
I thought, "Well, shoot,I'll just call the Department of Natural Resources.
437
00:31:34,684 --> 00:31:35,852
I'll ask him what it is."
438
00:31:37,979 --> 00:31:39,022
Didn't know anything about it.
439
00:31:39,397 --> 00:31:41,190
"That's not my field."
440
00:31:41,274 --> 00:31:43,151
I thought, "Well, that
is a strange attitude.
441
00:31:45,486 --> 00:31:49,240
I got a hold of the clean water people,I went to the wellhead people,
442
00:31:49,324 --> 00:31:53,119
Department of Health, God,I mean, I got shut off on end.
443
00:31:56,289 --> 00:31:58,541
I told Darlene. I said, "Honey,something's not right here."
444
00:32:01,002 --> 00:32:02,629
So I called DuPont.
445
00:32:03,171 --> 00:32:06,174
Talked to the headtoxicologist for 45 minutes.
446
00:32:07,342 --> 00:32:08,384
Hung the phone up.
447
00:32:08,468 --> 00:32:10,303
Darlene said,
"What did you find out?"
448
00:32:10,386 --> 00:32:14,057
I said,
"I was just fed the biggest line of BS I think I've ever been fed."
449
00:32:15,975 --> 00:32:19,854
We heard that very early on in the production of Teflon products,
450
00:32:19,938 --> 00:32:23,483
there was a manufacturer up in the midwest,who called and said,
451
00:32:23,566 --> 00:32:25,944
"We want you to come overhere and look at this.
452
00:32:26,319 --> 00:32:32,450
We're heating up this Teflon and weheard this pounding noise on the roof.
453
00:32:33,952 --> 00:32:35,703
It sounded like a hailstorm."
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00:32:37,872 --> 00:32:39,624
It was a flock of birds.
455
00:32:39,958 --> 00:32:41,709
As they were flyingover where the vent was,
456
00:32:42,460 --> 00:32:44,504
they just dropped
out of the sky.
457
00:32:48,549 --> 00:32:53,596
By 1984,
the company knew that the material was going into the Ohio river.
458
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:57,141
It was going up into the air and they
weren't telling the community about it.
459
00:33:01,437 --> 00:33:03,815
Particles in the airthat came up into our own land,
460
00:33:05,358 --> 00:33:07,568
we always wondered what itwas, it wasn't dust,
461
00:33:07,652 --> 00:33:09,445
it was a whitekind of material.
462
00:33:10,905 --> 00:33:12,740
It was all over the plant.In the air.
463
00:33:15,326 --> 00:33:16,703
I think that's how it happened.
464
00:33:26,045 --> 00:33:28,381
When they cut me for the cancer,
they took all my rectum,
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00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:29,924
part of my colon.
466
00:33:32,927 --> 00:33:37,056
Your whole life...
Your whole life's completely different, you know.
467
00:33:38,975 --> 00:33:40,727
You don't sit
on a toilet ever again.
468
00:33:43,396 --> 00:33:45,481
I change this thing
three or four times a day.
469
00:33:46,024 --> 00:33:47,233
Sometimes five.
470
00:33:48,234 --> 00:33:50,028
So this is everyday
life for me.
471
00:33:54,991 --> 00:33:56,409
They told metwo months to live.
472
00:33:57,660 --> 00:33:59,412
And I'm lucky to be heretelling the story.
473
00:34:02,081 --> 00:34:03,499
That's why you
called and requested
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00:34:03,583 --> 00:34:05,209
that I go ahead
and schedule the deposition
475
00:34:05,293 --> 00:34:07,795
so you'd have a chance to testify while you were still alive.
476
00:34:10,214 --> 00:34:11,758
Before I die,
I wanna get this out.
477
00:34:14,594 --> 00:34:17,930
When you're downthere in the Teflon lab,
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00:34:18,347 --> 00:34:21,642
did you work with a lot of other people,that have been sick or died early?
479
00:34:23,895 --> 00:34:26,397
One of my good friends,Carol Caplinger.
480
00:34:28,900 --> 00:34:30,610
He had leukemia of the blood.
481
00:34:32,070 --> 00:34:33,154
He died.
482
00:34:33,780 --> 00:34:34,822
How old was he?
483
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:37,533
He was only 50.Forty-five, 50.
484
00:34:41,537 --> 00:34:42,705
Anybody else?
485
00:34:45,208 --> 00:34:46,334
Uh, Jim Rotwater.
486
00:34:47,752 --> 00:34:49,295
The last time I seen him,
487
00:34:49,504 --> 00:34:51,798
they were taking him to Cleveland Clinic and he died up there.
488
00:34:52,381 --> 00:34:54,967
- How old was he?
- Fifty.
489
00:34:56,052 --> 00:34:57,553
Pat Ankram,she worked B shift.
490
00:34:58,346 --> 00:35:00,807
She passed away. Joey Weaver,they had him on chemo.
491
00:35:01,182 --> 00:35:03,101
I knew him all my Teflon days. Don Lutz.Lana Frankow, Daryl Chrome, Secretary...
492
00:35:05,728 --> 00:35:07,980
- How old was he?- Thirties.
493
00:35:08,147 --> 00:35:11,943
And I lost a good friend,he... He loved baseball.
494
00:35:12,026 --> 00:35:15,321
Cliff Spiker, Steve Bailey...Alona Carr, she passed away.
495
00:35:15,404 --> 00:35:18,658
Paul Radall, gone.William Peppers, gone. Smith, gone.
496
00:35:19,117 --> 00:35:21,953
Jim Hewitt,he had tumor show up,
497
00:35:22,787 --> 00:35:23,955
month later he died.
498
00:35:25,915 --> 00:35:27,416
Is there any doubt,in your mind
499
00:35:27,500 --> 00:35:29,168
that all of these people
were exposed to C-8,
500
00:35:29,252 --> 00:35:31,087
based upon your personal
observation?
501
00:35:33,631 --> 00:35:35,550
To the best of my ability
I say they are.
502
00:35:42,515 --> 00:35:43,683
Life's precious.
503
00:35:48,020 --> 00:35:51,232
And to see somebody,you work with every day, my friends,
504
00:35:52,441 --> 00:35:53,484
die...
505
00:35:54,569 --> 00:35:55,611
That's hard.
506
00:36:00,074 --> 00:36:02,618
That was...
That was devastating.
507
00:36:29,061 --> 00:36:30,062
What's that?
508
00:36:30,188 --> 00:36:33,524
It's a handkerchief
for a sweaty fat guy.
509
00:36:36,277 --> 00:36:39,906
That's one thing that, uh,
I've never had to buy, our handkerchiefs.
510
00:36:40,031 --> 00:36:42,950
'Cause my dad was a pastor,
so he took them all the time.
511
00:36:43,492 --> 00:36:44,702
So all my own handkerchiefs
are my dad's.
512
00:36:47,580 --> 00:36:51,375
Actually, the church we'd go to,he started it, yeah.
513
00:36:54,587 --> 00:36:55,880
He passed away in 2008.
514
00:36:56,797 --> 00:36:57,882
So, yeah...
515
00:37:01,886 --> 00:37:02,929
You good?
516
00:37:03,095 --> 00:37:05,014
- I just need to get some bottled water.
- Cool.
517
00:37:15,316 --> 00:37:19,862
I was probably about 19 whenI think we met.
518
00:37:19,946 --> 00:37:22,240
The summer before we got married,
so it was 2002.
519
00:37:22,323 --> 00:37:23,324
Okay.
520
00:37:23,574 --> 00:37:26,661
So we met then,
the funny thing is we didn't like each other at all.
521
00:37:26,744 --> 00:37:28,955
- Did not.
- Absolutely opposite.
522
00:37:29,038 --> 00:37:32,583
I became friends, you know,
with people that knew him,
523
00:37:32,667 --> 00:37:36,128
and they had us meet and I was like, "No",
and he was like, "No".
524
00:37:36,671 --> 00:37:39,298
- It was kind of like...
- I kind of pursued after her.
525
00:37:39,590 --> 00:37:41,425
And it was more like
hitting a brick wall.
526
00:37:42,134 --> 00:37:43,886
- She didn't really--
- I kept saying no.
527
00:37:47,223 --> 00:37:50,726
- He finally started leaving me alone was the thing.
- Oh. Okay.
528
00:37:50,977 --> 00:37:53,104
I kinda could see
who he really was.
529
00:37:53,562 --> 00:37:56,315
That he really was funny
and a gentleman.
530
00:37:56,524 --> 00:37:58,484
He treated people with
respect and...
531
00:37:59,026 --> 00:38:01,112
Once he finally started
leaving me alone,
532
00:38:01,195 --> 00:38:03,531
I could see that,
and then I started liking him.
533
00:38:10,788 --> 00:38:12,164
We were engaged,
like, maybe...
534
00:38:12,540 --> 00:38:14,583
Maybe two months after
I started liking him.
535
00:38:14,667 --> 00:38:15,710
Yeah.
536
00:38:20,548 --> 00:38:22,633
That day was beautiful.
537
00:38:25,344 --> 00:38:26,762
His father was still here.
538
00:38:28,347 --> 00:38:30,391
We were very proud of him.
539
00:38:31,183 --> 00:38:32,184
Both of 'em.
540
00:38:32,310 --> 00:38:33,561
Bucky and Melinda.
541
00:38:37,481 --> 00:38:39,025
Does everybody
have the verse?
542
00:38:40,109 --> 00:38:42,236
- Yes.
- Yes, okay, verse.
543
00:38:43,863 --> 00:38:47,158
♪ You are goodall the time ♪
544
00:38:47,658 --> 00:38:49,243
♪ All the time ♪
545
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:56,459
♪ You are goodYou are... ♪
546
00:38:56,542 --> 00:38:59,795
Whatever happened,you know, made him who he was
547
00:38:59,879 --> 00:39:02,465
and I guess itdidn't really matter to me.
548
00:39:02,757 --> 00:39:06,177
And I guess later when I thought a future family,you know,
549
00:39:06,260 --> 00:39:07,678
all that stuff goes throughyour head,
550
00:39:07,762 --> 00:39:10,139
you know, when you're like,"This is the person I'm gonna marry
551
00:39:10,598 --> 00:39:12,475
and, you know, is thisgonna affect our lives?"
552
00:39:13,726 --> 00:39:15,895
And I remember it morebothering him.
553
00:39:16,479 --> 00:39:21,108
And him saying, how he would never...
I don't wanna cry...
554
00:39:22,068 --> 00:39:23,861
He would never
wanna have a kid,
555
00:39:25,071 --> 00:39:27,823
have to go through all that he went through as a kid.
556
00:39:27,907 --> 00:39:29,033
Mmm-hmm.
557
00:39:37,124 --> 00:39:40,461
You know, I didn'twant to hinder him,
558
00:39:41,295 --> 00:39:46,008
wanting to start a family,even though it was a concern for us in reality.
559
00:39:50,971 --> 00:39:55,017
Before we started trying,we wanted to see how high his C-8 levels were,
560
00:39:55,101 --> 00:39:57,103
and what wasin his bloodstream.
561
00:39:58,813 --> 00:40:01,357
They hada special geneticist
562
00:40:01,732 --> 00:40:07,029
come in and, you know, it was,
kind of like my biggest fear,
563
00:40:07,154 --> 00:40:09,907
you know, being manifested
right in front of my eyes.
564
00:40:12,660 --> 00:40:15,162
His levels were so much higher,higher than even
565
00:40:15,287 --> 00:40:16,956
what his mom hasin her bloodstream.
566
00:40:19,917 --> 00:40:22,670
They said that there was
at least a 50 % chance
567
00:40:22,753 --> 00:40:24,588
that it could be passed on
to the babies.
568
00:40:25,297 --> 00:40:28,884
You know,
that they could end up with exactly what he went through.
569
00:40:37,685 --> 00:40:39,687
Okay, it says,
"Big announcement",
570
00:40:39,770 --> 00:40:41,981
go ahead and read that
next to the last paragraph.
571
00:40:42,398 --> 00:40:44,775
"Big announcement,
3M, two days ago,
572
00:40:45,776 --> 00:40:49,155
it is going to stop making Scotchgard because it is too persistent
573
00:40:49,238 --> 00:40:50,948
in the environment
and gets into our blood.
574
00:40:52,074 --> 00:40:55,453
They then told us they are going to stop making a related product
575
00:40:55,536 --> 00:40:57,705
that is an essential ingredientin the Teflon polymer,
576
00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:00,332
also is very persistent and also gets into blood,but so far no signs it has hurt anyone.
577
00:41:04,003 --> 00:41:06,005
If it does we are
really in a soup,
578
00:41:06,088 --> 00:41:09,258
because essentially everyone is exposed one way or the other."
579
00:41:13,179 --> 00:41:18,225
The first time we came across this issue was May of 2000.
580
00:41:18,726 --> 00:41:22,646
And it was just a short little story that 3M had decided
581
00:41:22,771 --> 00:41:25,900
to replace the chemistry
582
00:41:26,484 --> 00:41:29,778
that was underneathScotchgard with something else,
583
00:41:29,987 --> 00:41:34,450
and it was going to cost them hundreds of millions of dollars in that year.
584
00:41:36,994 --> 00:41:40,122
3M waspresenting to the USEPA
585
00:41:40,414 --> 00:41:42,374
some informationthat had just come in,
586
00:41:42,458 --> 00:41:45,503
some rat studies with PFOS,
587
00:41:45,586 --> 00:41:49,882
and the widespread presence of thechemical being found in the blood as well.
588
00:41:50,007 --> 00:41:52,718
And EPA was expressing
concerns about that data.
589
00:41:57,556 --> 00:42:01,560
And so 3M and the EPA hammered out an agreement
590
00:42:01,644 --> 00:42:06,106
where they would voluntarily take PFOA and PFOS off the market.
591
00:42:07,483 --> 00:42:12,321
At the time,the best producer of the PFOA chemicals was 3M.
592
00:42:14,490 --> 00:42:17,326
DuPont looked at that business and I was there at the time,
593
00:42:17,576 --> 00:42:19,578
and they said,
"Yahoo, the king is dead."
594
00:42:21,163 --> 00:42:22,873
And in fact,
within a few months,
595
00:42:23,415 --> 00:42:27,795
DuPont made a decision not only to continue using PFOA,
596
00:42:27,962 --> 00:42:33,092
but to actually begin manufacturing PFOA at its facility in North Carolina.
597
00:42:33,217 --> 00:42:34,301
Correct?
598
00:42:34,468 --> 00:42:39,431
I don't recall the exact timing or phasing,
but you are correct,
599
00:42:39,515 --> 00:42:43,852
within some period of time,
we concluded to manufacture the product...
600
00:42:45,604 --> 00:42:47,439
And to continue using
the product.
601
00:43:04,081 --> 00:43:05,749
Rob Bilott,the attorney who was
602
00:43:05,833 --> 00:43:08,002
working onthe Tennant case at that time,
603
00:43:08,085 --> 00:43:12,089
came across this announcement
of 3M's decision,
604
00:43:12,172 --> 00:43:14,758
and that in fact is when
he made the connection.
605
00:43:15,968 --> 00:43:20,055
DuPont had dumped a similar chemicalin the water on Tennant's property.
606
00:43:20,139 --> 00:43:25,144
I sent a letter to the USEPA,on March 6th of 2001,
607
00:43:26,020 --> 00:43:28,856
summarizing what we were seeing in the internal documents.
608
00:43:28,939 --> 00:43:32,109
Providing information
to the agency to let them know,
609
00:43:32,192 --> 00:43:36,822
we think you ought to lookinto PFOA and investigate it.
610
00:43:38,157 --> 00:43:42,536
Rob Bilott would fight DuPont to disclose documents,
611
00:43:42,620 --> 00:43:45,456
that had anything relevantto this chemistry.
612
00:43:48,125 --> 00:43:51,211
As these documentscame to his possession,
613
00:43:51,503 --> 00:43:54,632
he would send the most relevant ones directly to the EPA.
614
00:43:56,842 --> 00:44:00,095
DuPont tried to get a gag order from a judge to stop him.
615
00:44:00,512 --> 00:44:02,640
Because they knew
that he had the goods.
616
00:44:02,723 --> 00:44:05,768
He knew what was going on with their chemical and could nail them.
617
00:44:06,769 --> 00:44:08,312
Down here it says that,
618
00:44:08,395 --> 00:44:12,650
"Bilott was given 130
of our worst documents,
619
00:44:13,233 --> 00:44:15,402
that he got in discovery
to EPA."
620
00:44:15,903 --> 00:44:17,446
- You see that 130?
- Yes.
621
00:44:17,738 --> 00:44:19,323
Now, what are
the worst documents?
622
00:44:19,615 --> 00:44:21,742
If you were to look
at the DuPont documents,
623
00:44:21,825 --> 00:44:23,827
how would you consider
them the worst documents?
624
00:44:23,911 --> 00:44:25,996
I'm not entirely sure
of recollections.
625
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:27,831
I assume they are
the toxicology documents.
626
00:44:35,714 --> 00:44:37,466
All the way back to the '60s,
627
00:44:37,925 --> 00:44:41,470
they're aware, clearly aware,of the risk of the product.
628
00:44:42,262 --> 00:44:44,264
Their own documents show
that this is a toxin.
629
00:44:45,933 --> 00:44:49,853
They continued to find toxicity effects through the late 1960s.
630
00:44:51,063 --> 00:44:54,942
By 1988, they started
doing cancer studies.
631
00:44:55,526 --> 00:44:56,902
In that particular study,
632
00:44:57,111 --> 00:44:59,988
increased rate
of leydig cell tumors
633
00:45:00,072 --> 00:45:01,907
were found, correct?
634
00:45:02,324 --> 00:45:03,367
That is correct?
635
00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:10,207
Their studies were showing rats dying,
dogs dying,
636
00:45:10,499 --> 00:45:13,710
monkeys dying, they weresaying testicular tumors,
637
00:45:13,961 --> 00:45:16,505
liver disease,pancreatic disease.
638
00:45:18,924 --> 00:45:21,718
Unfortunately,
monkeys even at the lowest dose
639
00:45:21,802 --> 00:45:23,595
were dying after beingexposed to PFOA.
640
00:45:26,348 --> 00:45:31,103
And they know that these primate studies have a direct relationship
641
00:45:31,186 --> 00:45:33,021
to what we'll find in
the human population.
642
00:45:35,441 --> 00:45:41,363
DuPont itself had classified PFOA as a confirmed animal carcinogen,
643
00:45:41,447 --> 00:45:42,698
possible human carcinogen.
644
00:45:48,620 --> 00:45:50,998
All of this informationwas clear evidence
645
00:45:51,081 --> 00:45:52,833
that should havebeen disclosed
646
00:45:52,916 --> 00:45:54,251
under Federal law.
647
00:45:55,377 --> 00:45:59,089
But those documents didn't
show up at EPA at all.
648
00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:03,343
When they began to show up
as a result of this court case,
649
00:46:03,427 --> 00:46:05,012
that's when everything
changed.
650
00:46:08,474 --> 00:46:12,644
When do you cross the
threshold from convenient to dangerous?
651
00:46:13,270 --> 00:46:15,689
That's what the Environmental Protection Agency is trying to determine
652
00:46:15,772 --> 00:46:18,734
with a very popular chemical
in almost every household.
653
00:46:35,876 --> 00:46:37,085
They just started diggin'.
654
00:46:40,047 --> 00:46:43,300
Finally, I talked to the national Environmental Protection Agency.
655
00:46:46,094 --> 00:46:47,721
And when I readthe gentleman the letter,
656
00:46:47,846 --> 00:46:50,140
he said, "I'm gonnasend you some information,
657
00:46:50,390 --> 00:46:53,685
and when I do, he said, I want you to read it very carefully,because after you read it, you'll probably want to contact a lawyer."
658
00:47:01,026 --> 00:47:02,194
I said, "Well, okay."
659
00:47:02,277 --> 00:47:04,071
Next day, I got it in the mail,
I opened it,
660
00:47:04,488 --> 00:47:08,367
and I read the information and what it was,was on the Tennant case.
661
00:47:17,209 --> 00:47:19,711
You see thediscoloration in that eye?
662
00:47:21,797 --> 00:47:23,215
They're born that way.
663
00:47:28,595 --> 00:47:32,307
Cow there,she gotta open her mouth and I gotta check her teeth.
664
00:47:32,516 --> 00:47:34,685
They'll probably be all black,her jowl teeth.
665
00:47:35,602 --> 00:47:37,521
This is whather teeth looks like.
666
00:47:39,940 --> 00:47:41,817
The key partof that was
667
00:47:42,067 --> 00:47:45,028
is when they said, the cattle,their teeth had turned black,
668
00:47:45,237 --> 00:47:46,572
I thought wait a minute...
669
00:47:49,866 --> 00:47:52,661
They talked about the kids teeth turning black.
670
00:47:52,869 --> 00:47:54,955
I started to put twoand two together,
671
00:47:55,038 --> 00:47:58,083
I looked up in the corner,I saw Rob Bilott's name up there.
672
00:47:58,959 --> 00:48:00,961
So I said, "I'm gonnacall this guy."
673
00:48:06,883 --> 00:48:09,886
It says,"Learn in the depostion that Earl Tennant
674
00:48:09,970 --> 00:48:11,138
uses Lubeck drinking water,"
675
00:48:11,555 --> 00:48:15,309
and we know that Bilott has requested
information from Lubeck water company.
676
00:48:15,392 --> 00:48:17,227
- You see that?
- I see that, yes.
677
00:48:19,146 --> 00:48:22,190
So this letter,it had a legal purpose.
678
00:48:23,025 --> 00:48:26,153
According to West Virginia law,two years after this letter went out,
679
00:48:26,820 --> 00:48:29,239
the statute of limitations
would run out.
680
00:48:30,157 --> 00:48:33,535
And then you go on to say,
"The real danger is what steps
681
00:48:33,744 --> 00:48:36,747
Bilott might take to expand the number of plaintiffs,
682
00:48:36,830 --> 00:48:39,791
and introduce new environmentalallegations in this lawsuit.
683
00:48:39,875 --> 00:48:42,336
And if he does what will the court allow him to do?"
684
00:48:44,046 --> 00:48:46,006
The public had twoyears to respond.
685
00:48:46,465 --> 00:48:49,343
If there was no response,
the case was legally dead.
686
00:48:51,178 --> 00:48:53,597
...more rainin the forecast.
687
00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:55,891
Tomorrow 87your high temperature,
688
00:48:55,974 --> 00:48:57,517
and you'll see that pattern throughout the rest of the week.
689
00:48:59,186 --> 00:49:01,688
Rob calls me fromCincinnati airport, he says,
690
00:49:03,148 --> 00:49:05,525
My law firmwants to take this case on."
691
00:49:06,234 --> 00:49:08,862
He said,"Do you want to take it on as a class action
692
00:49:08,987 --> 00:49:10,822
or do you wanna take it onas a civil?
693
00:49:11,615 --> 00:49:14,910
I said,
"I've just got a gut feeling something is just not right here."
694
00:49:15,285 --> 00:49:17,871
I said, "Where do we get
the most help for most people?"
695
00:49:18,330 --> 00:49:20,290
He said, "Class action",
I said, "Let's do it."
696
00:49:25,253 --> 00:49:28,173
I said, "No, absolutely not."
697
00:49:28,965 --> 00:49:32,177
Because the involvement
with my ex-husband.
698
00:49:32,260 --> 00:49:33,553
And because of the involvement
of our children.
699
00:49:36,014 --> 00:49:37,516
My ex-husbandworked at DuPont.
700
00:49:38,183 --> 00:49:41,937
So anything that might cause them any pain or anything,
701
00:49:42,354 --> 00:49:44,022
I just didn't want themto be involved.
702
00:49:47,150 --> 00:49:48,777
But I could seeit in Joe's eyes.
703
00:49:53,115 --> 00:49:55,325
And he said, "I really think
you need to do it."
704
00:49:55,409 --> 00:49:57,994
I said, "If you want me to I will,
I'll do it for you.
705
00:50:00,872 --> 00:50:03,417
But we gotta be very protective and very careful."
706
00:50:13,427 --> 00:50:16,680
Everybody in this area one way or another is connected to DuPont.
707
00:50:16,847 --> 00:50:20,767
You go dealing with somebody'slivelihood which is their job,
708
00:50:20,851 --> 00:50:23,562
which is their insuranceand their protection,
709
00:50:24,730 --> 00:50:27,274
and you go messin' with that,you're gonna have problems.
710
00:50:29,901 --> 00:50:34,990
You can't walk into a restaurant or any gathering,
711
00:50:35,073 --> 00:50:41,246
here in Parkersburg and not run into
somebody that either worked at DuPont,
712
00:50:41,413 --> 00:50:45,751
has a relative that worked at DuPont,has a good friend that worked at DuPont.
713
00:50:50,255 --> 00:50:53,842
The net profit for all this if you're gonna turn it into money is,
714
00:50:53,925 --> 00:50:57,012
better schools,better education system.
715
00:50:57,804 --> 00:51:01,475
DuPont helped fortifythe city of Parkersburg.
716
00:51:04,352 --> 00:51:08,482
DuPont is very good
at locking up the town.
717
00:51:08,982 --> 00:51:12,110
When there is somethingthat is not going their way,
718
00:51:12,194 --> 00:51:15,989
they'll help schools,they'll talk to the churches,
719
00:51:16,656 --> 00:51:18,533
they are very big on the PR.
720
00:51:18,617 --> 00:51:21,328
They have unbelievable reputation for safety.
721
00:51:21,620 --> 00:51:25,457
Good jobs, benefits,good citizens.
722
00:51:25,540 --> 00:51:28,043
Everybody thought they could
do no wrong.
723
00:51:29,586 --> 00:51:31,087
DuPont was my idol.
724
00:51:33,173 --> 00:51:36,468
I used to cut grass for DuPonters when I was young.
725
00:51:37,928 --> 00:51:39,054
But I don't blame them.
726
00:51:40,263 --> 00:51:42,891
It's the people who run the company,
the people who make the decisions.
727
00:51:45,852 --> 00:51:47,437
I should have opened my eyes,but I loved DuPont so much.
728
00:51:50,482 --> 00:51:53,360
And I felt they wouldn't putme in harm's way.
729
00:51:57,989 --> 00:51:59,866
We want to believe corporate America.
730
00:52:01,535 --> 00:52:04,371
It's too horrible to believethat everyday we get up,
731
00:52:04,454 --> 00:52:06,998
we're at the mercy of a corporation who might lie to us,
732
00:52:07,374 --> 00:52:11,253
who might poison us,
who might create a product that might kill us.
733
00:52:11,586 --> 00:52:12,712
For profit.
734
00:52:16,258 --> 00:52:20,262
"There was consensus reached that the
issue which will decide future actions
735
00:52:20,345 --> 00:52:22,722
is one of corporate imageand corporate liability.
736
00:52:22,848 --> 00:52:24,891
Liability was further defined
737
00:52:24,975 --> 00:52:28,186
as the incremental liability from this point on if we do nothing.
738
00:52:28,270 --> 00:52:32,107
As we are already liable for the past 32 years of operation."
739
00:52:33,108 --> 00:52:34,359
- See that?
- Yes.
740
00:52:34,734 --> 00:52:40,866
In 1984,
they already admit we have been liable for 32 years.
741
00:52:42,409 --> 00:52:44,411
They had made a money decision.
742
00:52:47,330 --> 00:52:48,540
On the next page,
743
00:52:48,623 --> 00:52:51,626
"Looking ahead,legal and medical will most likely take a position
744
00:52:51,710 --> 00:52:52,919
of total elimination.
745
00:52:53,837 --> 00:52:56,172
They have no incentiveto take any other position."
746
00:52:56,506 --> 00:52:57,591
- See that?
- Yes.
747
00:52:57,924 --> 00:53:01,177
"A product group will take a position,
but the business cannot afford it.
748
00:53:04,556 --> 00:53:06,725
We know that there wasa discussion about,
749
00:53:06,808 --> 00:53:09,728
do we need to come up with something in our Teflon production
750
00:53:09,811 --> 00:53:11,396
that's not gonnacause these problems.
751
00:53:14,482 --> 00:53:17,152
And they conclude,"If we launch something new,
752
00:53:17,611 --> 00:53:19,696
it's gonna cost usa lot of money.
753
00:53:22,198 --> 00:53:23,617
We have to stick with C-8.
754
00:53:25,368 --> 00:53:26,912
C-8 is the devil we know."
755
00:53:32,667 --> 00:53:34,419
I think they recognized
756
00:53:34,586 --> 00:53:37,714
that Teflon was a significant part of the business.
757
00:53:46,681 --> 00:53:49,100
It all boils downto economics.
758
00:53:50,518 --> 00:53:54,105
Let's just ignore the situation and continue using PFOA.
759
00:53:54,189 --> 00:53:56,983
'Cause nobody is gonnaforce us to stop it.
760
00:53:59,778 --> 00:54:01,655
It's calledexternalizing cost.
761
00:54:03,531 --> 00:54:06,159
We want to make
all the profits at DuPont.
762
00:54:06,409 --> 00:54:09,329
We wanna pass all the risk,
all the illness,
763
00:54:09,412 --> 00:54:13,083
all the suffering,
all the cost of clean up onto the tax payers.
764
00:54:26,471 --> 00:54:28,181
We're having spaghetti,
I'm sorry.
765
00:54:29,683 --> 00:54:30,850
Well, I am too,
766
00:54:32,936 --> 00:54:35,230
It's leftover so you know
it'll be good.
767
00:54:38,441 --> 00:54:40,402
Everybody goes throughlife thinking water is safe.
768
00:54:42,737 --> 00:54:45,115
You go in and get it out of your sink and think, "Yeah."
769
00:54:46,741 --> 00:54:50,203
To think that an advanced country like we live in,
770
00:54:50,996 --> 00:54:54,666
who would think of it being polluted or dangerous?
771
00:54:56,501 --> 00:54:58,753
It's a sad situation.
772
00:55:00,213 --> 00:55:03,675
It's terrible that you have to be concerned about the water you drink.
773
00:55:10,598 --> 00:55:14,144
The Ohio river comes down through Parkersburg and goes toward us.
774
00:55:15,645 --> 00:55:18,273
Supplying to peoplein Evans with their water.
775
00:55:19,983 --> 00:55:24,070
Evans is approximately 40 miles from the Parkersburg DuPont plant.
776
00:55:26,156 --> 00:55:29,993
Parkersburg is certainly contaminated with chemicals, C-8, right?
777
00:55:30,618 --> 00:55:31,786
Um...
778
00:55:32,287 --> 00:55:34,956
I don't know if I would
characterize it that way.
779
00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:39,044
Fifty thousand pounds put into the river annually is not a contamination?
780
00:55:41,713 --> 00:55:43,882
At one point,DuPont came out and said,
781
00:55:44,382 --> 00:55:48,136
"If your drinking water is showing more than one part per billion,
782
00:55:48,678 --> 00:55:50,263
of C-8 then you better not drink the water."Let me give you an idea why that is.
783
00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:56,019
It's one drop of C-8
in an Olympic-sized pool.
784
00:55:57,854 --> 00:55:59,898
Well, there's a hell ofa lot more than that
785
00:56:00,648 --> 00:56:03,735
in people's waterin the Ohio River Valley.
786
00:56:07,155 --> 00:56:09,491
Probablyaround '98 or '99,
787
00:56:09,783 --> 00:56:12,452
my thyroid glandswas causing a problem.
788
00:56:12,994 --> 00:56:15,371
- And high cholesterol.
- And I had high cholesterol.
789
00:56:16,164 --> 00:56:19,751
And I was having problems
with my bowels.
790
00:56:21,086 --> 00:56:25,131
And they came up with a real bad case of ulcerative colitis.
791
00:56:32,305 --> 00:56:36,184
You have an ulcer in your colon,and it will start to bleed every so often.
792
00:56:36,559 --> 00:56:39,729
And when it does, you betterbe near a bathroom,
793
00:56:39,813 --> 00:56:41,606
if you don't you're gonnahave an embarrassing situation.
794
00:56:44,234 --> 00:56:45,777
He couldn't get itunder control.
795
00:56:47,320 --> 00:56:49,322
His doctor told me,he said,
796
00:56:49,489 --> 00:56:52,325
"It's amazing that he hasnot gotten cancer from it."
797
00:56:52,909 --> 00:56:57,247
He said, "It's inevitable,
it's gonna happen from this...
798
00:56:57,956 --> 00:56:59,833
It's not gonna happen now
cause I don't have a colon.
799
00:57:01,209 --> 00:57:03,545
They took my colon
so I won't have colon cancer.
800
00:57:06,756 --> 00:57:09,467
You know,I was always thinking that one day I could retire,
801
00:57:09,551 --> 00:57:11,469
and enjoy life,we could travel.
802
00:57:12,220 --> 00:57:13,388
But not anymore.
803
00:57:14,973 --> 00:57:16,933
I don't talk about thissituation very often.
804
00:57:18,768 --> 00:57:21,938
I don't tell other people
about it... But...
805
00:57:31,489 --> 00:57:32,907
It's changed
my whole life.
806
00:57:58,516 --> 00:58:00,894
Now, a lawsuitbrought by local residents
807
00:58:00,977 --> 00:58:05,231
accuses DuPont of trying to cover up what it knew about Teflon's risks.
808
00:58:05,315 --> 00:58:09,110
Joe Kiger says he had no intention of hurting the DuPont corporation
809
00:58:09,194 --> 00:58:13,239
when he agreed to be part of a suit challenging the health affects of C-8.
810
00:58:21,831 --> 00:58:24,125
It was a class action suit
811
00:58:24,542 --> 00:58:27,754
on behalf of...It turned out six different water districts.
812
00:58:28,129 --> 00:58:30,965
And tens of thousands
of people.
813
00:58:31,674 --> 00:58:33,760
Everybody said, "Oh,
we know it's a bunch of crap."
814
00:58:34,385 --> 00:58:36,804
You know, "DuPont wouldn'tpoison anybody."
815
00:58:39,224 --> 00:58:43,394
The shop talk was that Joe
was out to get filthy rich.
816
00:58:44,896 --> 00:58:46,523
We've hadsome resistance.
817
00:58:46,606 --> 00:58:49,442
I mean, as far as being shunned,wife got a phone call one day
818
00:58:49,526 --> 00:58:52,111
and the guy gets on her
and starts cussin' her out.
819
00:58:52,195 --> 00:58:54,197
"This is awful.
You are doing this.
820
00:58:54,322 --> 00:58:55,657
There is not a thing
wrong with the water."
821
00:58:55,740 --> 00:58:57,367
Why are you ground beatin' poor DuPont like this?
822
00:58:57,742 --> 00:58:59,869
And we heard it from
people in that area.
823
00:59:00,203 --> 00:59:03,790
Teflon the famous brand name known for non-stick services
824
00:59:03,998 --> 00:59:06,417
may pose health risks,the EPA...
825
00:59:06,501 --> 00:59:09,921
As the story began to break,DuPont scientists
826
00:59:10,004 --> 00:59:13,800
were working to produce public pronouncements saying,
827
00:59:15,134 --> 00:59:18,596
"Look, we've taken a look at it,
it's nothing to be concerned about."
828
00:59:18,888 --> 00:59:20,974
Based on our
assessment of the science,
829
00:59:21,266 --> 00:59:23,851
we do not believe this poses
any cancer risk.
830
00:59:23,935 --> 00:59:25,895
Chemicals that have an effect in animals
831
00:59:25,979 --> 00:59:28,481
don't necessarily have a similar effect in humans.
832
00:59:29,148 --> 00:59:32,235
First of all,DuPont put together this team,
833
00:59:32,318 --> 00:59:34,946
of legal expertsand scientists,
834
00:59:35,029 --> 00:59:37,323
to defend their chemical.
835
00:59:37,865 --> 00:59:40,326
And it was led by someonenamed Mike McCabe.
836
00:59:40,702 --> 00:59:45,540
Sometime during 2000,
you became the US EPA deputy administrator, correct?
837
00:59:45,915 --> 00:59:50,378
I received a commission from the
President to be the deputy administrator.
838
00:59:50,461 --> 00:59:52,922
Before that I was
acting administrator.
839
00:59:53,256 --> 00:59:55,633
And in 2003,
840
00:59:56,426 --> 01:00:01,848
you began working through McCabe and Associates for DuPont, correct?
841
01:00:01,931 --> 01:00:02,974
Correct.
842
01:00:03,808 --> 01:00:06,894
Mike McCabe had been the number two guy at EPA.
843
01:00:07,228 --> 01:00:12,191
And he got other former
EPA folks with him,
844
01:00:12,275 --> 01:00:13,776
and they really pushed back.
845
01:00:15,361 --> 01:00:18,197
There was a revolving door that was taking place
846
01:00:18,281 --> 01:00:20,617
between DuPont and the EPA.
847
01:00:21,868 --> 01:00:26,748
DuPont had basically gained control of governmental decisions,
848
01:00:27,415 --> 01:00:31,127
The "Ask", you see the "Ask".
And then, "Ask" is in quotes.
849
01:00:32,712 --> 01:00:37,258
"In our opinion,the only voice that can cut through the negative stories
850
01:00:37,342 --> 01:00:38,635
is the voice of EPA."
851
01:00:39,093 --> 01:00:43,306
The governmental agencies that should have been responsible,
the EPA,
852
01:00:44,098 --> 01:00:46,893
those people werecaptured by DuPont.
853
01:00:47,268 --> 01:00:48,645
It's called corporate capture.
854
01:00:49,979 --> 01:00:51,481
They're sharing documents,they' re showing
855
01:00:51,564 --> 01:00:53,983
each other thingsbefore they happen.
856
01:00:54,067 --> 01:00:57,987
DuPont folks are requesting quotes from
the EPA to put in their own press releases.
857
01:00:58,196 --> 01:01:00,323
"Subject, Urgent."See that?
858
01:01:00,406 --> 01:01:03,660
"Coverage has been broadin print and network media.
859
01:01:03,743 --> 01:01:08,498
Significant disruptions in our marketsand our consumers are very concerned.
860
01:01:09,332 --> 01:01:14,504
We need EPA to quickly,like first thing tomorrow say the following.
861
01:01:15,380 --> 01:01:18,966
Consumer products sold under the Teflon brand are safe.
862
01:01:19,217 --> 01:01:24,013
Further, to date there are no human healtheffects known to be caused by PFOA."
863
01:01:25,306 --> 01:01:29,936
DuPont did in fact ask EPA to make those statements, correct?
864
01:01:30,019 --> 01:01:31,187
That's correct.
865
01:01:31,437 --> 01:01:32,897
So all of a suddenthe EPA is sayin',
866
01:01:32,980 --> 01:01:34,774
"Oh, yeah, we'll do
whatever you want us to do."
867
01:01:34,857 --> 01:01:37,318
Which is a complete scam,
utter scam.
868
01:01:39,487 --> 01:01:40,905
And it was very successful.
869
01:01:41,406 --> 01:01:43,991
As for all those pots and pans in the homes of Americans,
870
01:01:44,742 --> 01:01:46,661
both DuPont and the Federal
government say,
871
01:01:46,744 --> 01:01:49,038
there's no need right now,
Elizabeth, to throw them out.
872
01:01:49,122 --> 01:01:52,375
No need to throw them out,
but seems like plenty of need for concern.
873
01:02:10,017 --> 01:02:13,229
- You wanna hear the baby's heartbeat first?
- Yes, that would be awesome.
874
01:02:18,776 --> 01:02:20,278
He's alive.
875
01:02:20,361 --> 01:02:23,114
He's movin'.
He moved a lot.
876
01:02:26,075 --> 01:02:28,202
So if you can get a face shot
that would be awesome.
877
01:02:34,834 --> 01:02:37,253
Yeah, you have to use
your imagination.
878
01:02:38,421 --> 01:02:41,257
Hands, eye, forehead.
879
01:02:43,509 --> 01:02:45,970
- He's movin' around.
- I wanna see two nostrils.
880
01:02:48,181 --> 01:02:52,143
We can try. Let's see.
I don't know how this will come out on him.
881
01:02:52,643 --> 01:02:53,978
But we can try.
Let me give it a shot.
882
01:02:59,150 --> 01:03:01,861
I will say this is something we really had to pray about,
883
01:03:01,944 --> 01:03:04,989
to know are we going to take the next step and have children.
884
01:03:05,072 --> 01:03:06,073
Yeah.
885
01:03:06,699 --> 01:03:08,659
There's definitely been somestruggles with it.
886
01:03:09,660 --> 01:03:12,538
Basically, the bottom line was,there's a 50 % chance
887
01:03:12,622 --> 01:03:14,624
that everythingis going to be fine.
888
01:03:17,376 --> 01:03:21,339
Yeah,
I don't think I'll be able to 'cause his hands are right there.
889
01:03:22,298 --> 01:03:25,676
He has his hand kind of over his face like this.
890
01:03:25,968 --> 01:03:28,554
So that's why you can't see his nose.
This is his eyelid.
891
01:03:28,679 --> 01:03:30,723
- He does not want to co-operate.
- Nope.
892
01:03:31,265 --> 01:03:33,017
He does not
want to co-operate.
893
01:03:41,818 --> 01:03:47,073
I pray that our child does not have
any deformities and he's 100 % healthy.
894
01:03:48,449 --> 01:03:49,992
But we're ready for it.
895
01:03:50,159 --> 01:03:53,746
I lived my whole life for this so,
it will be better.
896
01:03:58,000 --> 01:03:59,293
Thanks.
897
01:04:28,948 --> 01:04:30,241
We'll be okay.
898
01:04:35,204 --> 01:04:37,206
So that's like
one side of his face.
899
01:04:37,331 --> 01:04:39,292
Okay,
how's this right here?
900
01:04:39,375 --> 01:04:41,168
- You got it upside down.
- Yeah.
901
01:04:41,961 --> 01:04:44,255
- She tried... Tried to get a profile.
- Yeah.
902
01:04:44,380 --> 01:04:47,550
- She was like, "Come on."
- She was like wiggling on my stomach
903
01:04:47,633 --> 01:04:50,595
trying to get him to take his hands down from his face and he wouldn't.
904
01:04:50,678 --> 01:04:52,388
He kept like going
back up like this.
905
01:04:53,222 --> 01:04:54,473
He was scared.
906
01:04:58,436 --> 01:05:01,772
Can't imagine him holding a baby and the baby being his.
907
01:05:02,231 --> 01:05:03,399
And Melinda's.
908
01:05:04,817 --> 01:05:06,193
They've beenmarried for 12 years.
909
01:05:07,361 --> 01:05:09,196
I know they held back for so long.I just wish his father was here to see it.
910
01:05:20,833 --> 01:05:22,418
It's gonna be okay, really.
911
01:05:24,712 --> 01:05:27,798
Yeah, I know, it's just...
912
01:05:33,262 --> 01:05:34,555
I miss my dad.
913
01:05:35,097 --> 01:05:36,891
I know...
914
01:05:43,230 --> 01:05:45,358
Would love just to talk
to him about this.
915
01:06:09,507 --> 01:06:12,635
In 2005, we got the callfrom DuPont.
916
01:06:13,886 --> 01:06:16,806
They said that you know,that they want to mediate.
917
01:06:18,432 --> 01:06:20,851
Of course,we went through negotiations and everything,
918
01:06:20,935 --> 01:06:22,979
for the settlement,settlement amount.
919
01:06:23,896 --> 01:06:25,815
Now,the implementation phase
920
01:06:25,898 --> 01:06:27,566
of the settlementin that case begins.
921
01:06:28,150 --> 01:06:29,485
Generally,with a settlement,
922
01:06:29,568 --> 01:06:30,861
people just wannabe done with it.
923
01:06:30,945 --> 01:06:33,155
They wanna get their cash,they wanna walk.
924
01:06:33,614 --> 01:06:35,658
Because it's usuallya long time coming.
925
01:06:35,783 --> 01:06:40,621
But what happened in the case of C-8 was really radically different.
926
01:06:56,303 --> 01:07:00,141
Rather than just take that money
provided by DuPont under the settlement,
927
01:07:00,224 --> 01:07:03,269
and divide it up among the class members and walk away,
928
01:07:03,728 --> 01:07:08,107
what we decided to do was set upsomething called the C-8 Science Panel.
929
01:07:09,275 --> 01:07:14,196
The community wanted to know,
does drinking PFOA actually have links
930
01:07:14,280 --> 01:07:15,781
to human disease?
931
01:07:16,949 --> 01:07:19,410
The settlement is far from the end of the C-8 case.
932
01:07:20,119 --> 01:07:23,122
It merely sets into motiona blood test process which
933
01:07:23,205 --> 01:07:26,083
six different water districtsare eligible to take.
934
01:07:27,084 --> 01:07:32,131
That was a sacrifice on the part
of the people who had won the money.
935
01:07:32,214 --> 01:07:36,052
But it was one that could have turned out
paying out for everybody in the world.
936
01:07:37,678 --> 01:07:40,931
You have to remember that DuPont has spread C-8
937
01:07:41,057 --> 01:07:43,100
all over the planetat this point.
938
01:07:44,518 --> 01:07:47,146
The science panel wasimportant to determine
939
01:07:47,271 --> 01:07:49,398
exactly how bad
this stuff is.
940
01:07:50,524 --> 01:07:52,693
I said,"If this stuff is harming people
941
01:07:52,777 --> 01:07:55,112
and they've knownfull well what's going on,
942
01:07:55,613 --> 01:07:58,032
we owe it to these people
to get this thing right."
943
01:07:59,408 --> 01:08:00,701
According to the settlement,
944
01:08:00,785 --> 01:08:03,662
any of those peoplein these six water districts,
945
01:08:04,163 --> 01:08:09,210
could sue if the science panel could prove
the exposures had caused any harm.
946
01:08:10,795 --> 01:08:14,298
DuPont remains confident
the test results will prove C-8 is safe.
947
01:08:14,840 --> 01:08:17,635
But a lot depends on howmany take the test.
948
01:08:18,469 --> 01:08:21,680
It's my belief that when DuPont settled this case,
949
01:08:21,764 --> 01:08:27,478
they had predetermined that no epidemiologicalstudy could be done large enough
950
01:08:27,561 --> 01:08:29,271
to ever get a link.
951
01:08:31,232 --> 01:08:35,402
And with no link,the jury comes back, you're innocent.
952
01:08:36,195 --> 01:08:38,155
And you can neverbe tried again.
953
01:08:41,450 --> 01:08:44,912
The problem is when you ask people to volunteer for a study,
954
01:08:45,079 --> 01:08:46,205
not many gonna show up.
955
01:08:46,664 --> 01:08:48,791
And so who's gonna do this?
956
01:08:49,542 --> 01:08:51,794
We wanted to get this thingup and running 'cause
957
01:08:51,877 --> 01:08:54,088
the momentum was there,the case had been settled.
958
01:08:54,171 --> 01:08:58,509
So we put a lot of information out in ads and pamphlets,
you name it.
959
01:08:58,717 --> 01:09:01,762
Every type of media we could get our hands...
We flooded the market.
960
01:09:02,847 --> 01:09:05,599
Healthy drinkingwater is vital to all of us.
961
01:09:05,891 --> 01:09:10,104
That's why scientists need to know if thechemical C-8 causes any health problems.
962
01:09:10,229 --> 01:09:12,690
By completing a health questionnaire and having your blood tested
963
01:09:13,065 --> 01:09:16,861
you can help.And you may be paid up to $400.
964
01:09:16,944 --> 01:09:18,988
To get started call...
965
01:09:20,406 --> 01:09:24,326
We ended up
also using that money to pay
966
01:09:24,410 --> 01:09:28,205
class members to come in and have their blood tested for PFOA,
967
01:09:28,372 --> 01:09:31,041
and to provide access to theirmedical information.
968
01:09:31,542 --> 01:09:35,129
This daughter of a DuPont
worker is ready to cash her $400 check.
969
01:09:36,255 --> 01:09:39,508
That's not too shabby,
coming in around November for Christmas,
970
01:09:39,592 --> 01:09:40,718
for a lot of families.
971
01:09:42,386 --> 01:09:44,430
If the researchends up showing that
972
01:09:44,513 --> 01:09:46,390
C-8 is a majormedical problem,
973
01:09:46,473 --> 01:09:48,517
the impact will be beyond...
974
01:09:51,061 --> 01:09:53,564
And thousands of people are undergoing teststhat may ultimately help determine whether all of are at risk.
975
01:10:12,166 --> 01:10:14,793
One of the things that was sort of an unknown at the time
976
01:10:14,877 --> 01:10:16,420
was how longthis process would take.
977
01:10:20,883 --> 01:10:23,969
It ended up takingmore than seven years.
978
01:10:28,182 --> 01:10:30,809
And the results came backaround 2012.
979
01:10:35,773 --> 01:10:39,318
Virtually,
the entire affected population estimated at
980
01:10:39,526 --> 01:10:42,655
70,000 people participated.
981
01:10:44,907 --> 01:10:48,869
It's the largest human health study in the history of the world.
982
01:10:49,078 --> 01:10:50,871
In terms of its
breath and scope.
983
01:10:56,168 --> 01:11:00,547
The eyes of the world has been on this science panel.
984
01:11:00,631 --> 01:11:03,133
The chemical industryhas been keenly
985
01:11:03,217 --> 01:11:05,177
interested in what wasgoing to come out of this.
986
01:11:05,970 --> 01:11:08,764
The designed the most
world that have ever
987
01:11:08,847 --> 01:11:11,267
class studies been
done on a pollutant.
988
01:11:12,726 --> 01:11:14,770
They spent seven years.
989
01:11:15,688 --> 01:11:19,066
Seven years studyingthis community.
990
01:11:19,358 --> 01:11:22,695
What other chemical do you have this kind of information about?
991
01:11:23,028 --> 01:11:24,571
The science is unequivocal now.
992
01:11:25,823 --> 01:11:30,911
In 2012,they said there was a link between drinking this in the water
993
01:11:31,078 --> 01:11:32,579
and six different diseases.
994
01:11:34,206 --> 01:11:36,667
Kidney cancer,testicular cancer,
995
01:11:37,167 --> 01:11:40,504
ulcerative colitis,thyroid disease,
996
01:11:40,921 --> 01:11:43,674
preeclampsiaand high cholesterol.
997
01:11:48,470 --> 01:11:50,889
We found out through the newspaper article.
998
01:11:51,348 --> 01:11:54,768
I was reading, I said,
"Earl, that C-8 can cause...
999
01:11:54,852 --> 01:11:57,062
You know, I started naming them,
I said, "You have three of those."
1000
01:12:00,316 --> 01:12:04,695
Mine was cholesterol,and high cholesterol contributes to heart disease.
1001
01:12:06,113 --> 01:12:08,657
Well, I've got nine stents
and I had a heart attack.
1002
01:12:12,870 --> 01:12:17,708
After the blood test,I was notified that I have thyroid disease.
1003
01:12:24,590 --> 01:12:29,803
Was I a guinea pig?What do you think? That's what it looks like.
1004
01:12:32,306 --> 01:12:35,142
Was Carol Caplinger a guinea pig?
Was Cliff Spiker a guinea pig?
1005
01:12:35,225 --> 01:12:36,643
Was Joey Weaver a guinea pig?
1006
01:12:38,520 --> 01:12:41,231
Were they thinking we're dumb enoughthat we don't know what's going on?
1007
01:12:44,985 --> 01:12:47,654
First,
it's the workers you betray by not telling them.
1008
01:12:49,948 --> 01:12:53,577
And then you betray the community in which these plants operate.
1009
01:12:54,536 --> 01:12:56,455
And then you betray
the community next door.
1010
01:12:57,164 --> 01:12:58,957
Who's also being exposed.
1011
01:13:07,883 --> 01:13:09,259
We're upstream.
1012
01:13:09,510 --> 01:13:13,722
We never anticipated that we would be included in any of this.
1013
01:13:15,349 --> 01:13:18,894
Thousands of people in Vienna,
West Virginia are being told
1014
01:13:18,977 --> 01:13:20,396
do not drink the water.
1015
01:13:20,479 --> 01:13:23,690
Clean water distribution sites,
they're open till 9 o'clock tonight.
1016
01:13:23,774 --> 01:13:26,360
They will reopen bright and early tomorrow morning at 8:00.
1017
01:13:26,443 --> 01:13:28,153
- Have a good day.
- You too.
1018
01:13:29,029 --> 01:13:32,658
It worries me.
We've got a lot of cancer in this area.
1019
01:13:32,908 --> 01:13:34,118
And then you wonder why.
1020
01:13:35,411 --> 01:13:38,205
This is not just inWest Virginia and Ohio.
1021
01:13:38,497 --> 01:13:42,000
It's been found in drinking
water all over the country.
1022
01:13:42,084 --> 01:13:46,130
PFOA have been turning up in
drinking water in New York state, Vermont.
1023
01:13:46,213 --> 01:13:49,842
There are some new concerns today over
the drinking water in New Castle, Delaware.
1024
01:13:49,925 --> 01:13:52,511
...the drinking water in portions of the Tennessee Valley.
1025
01:13:52,636 --> 01:13:56,223
This is something that affectseveryone all over the country.
1026
01:13:56,807 --> 01:13:59,435
You should be more worried
about people's lives.
1027
01:13:59,518 --> 01:14:01,228
Sorry.
1028
01:14:02,896 --> 01:14:04,523
And then every continent on the planet.
1029
01:14:16,285 --> 01:14:19,496
You have to realize,the argument that DuPont says,
1030
01:14:19,997 --> 01:14:21,373
"So what?
It's in your blood."
1031
01:14:21,707 --> 01:14:26,587
No contaminatedwater!
1032
01:14:28,046 --> 01:14:33,594
And my position would be,"You have no right to pollute my blood."
1033
01:14:53,489 --> 01:14:55,616
I was overwhelminglydisgusted by the findings.
1034
01:14:58,202 --> 01:15:02,247
The science panel came back and said,"We haven't really got a complete link
1035
01:15:02,331 --> 01:15:04,082
to your deformities."
1036
01:15:04,833 --> 01:15:07,628
When you look at the deformities that these animals had,
1037
01:15:07,711 --> 01:15:09,546
that I had the
same deformities?
1038
01:15:09,630 --> 01:15:12,257
That's
not a coincidence.
1039
01:15:16,887 --> 01:15:20,641
You could argue that Bucky Bailey's birth defects were not related.
1040
01:15:21,725 --> 01:15:23,352
That the birth defectsof the other child
1041
01:15:23,435 --> 01:15:25,896
in that group of eight childrenweren't related.
1042
01:15:26,271 --> 01:15:29,566
And I think DuPont did argue
that, that it can't be proven.
1043
01:15:29,691 --> 01:15:33,487
But the odds of that being
the case are very low.
1044
01:15:33,946 --> 01:15:36,949
You studied eight women
who worked with C-8.
1045
01:15:37,032 --> 01:15:39,326
Two of them had childrenwith birth defects.
1046
01:15:41,453 --> 01:15:43,288
That would not be significant?
1047
01:15:43,956 --> 01:15:47,709
In the realm of scientific facts,
this is not considered
1048
01:15:47,793 --> 01:15:50,212
a statistically
significant sample.
1049
01:15:53,590 --> 01:15:55,759
They said they didn'thave enough information,
1050
01:15:55,842 --> 01:15:57,344
how much information you have to have when you got two babies.
1051
01:15:59,388 --> 01:16:00,681
How much do you need?
1052
01:16:02,599 --> 01:16:04,268
How can there notbe a link?
1053
01:16:07,938 --> 01:16:11,942
It's hard for me to stay idle and say, "Okay,I accept this."
1054
01:16:12,943 --> 01:16:14,319
I don't wanna accept it.
1055
01:16:25,789 --> 01:16:28,125
May it please the court?Ladies and gentlemen,
1056
01:16:28,333 --> 01:16:30,002
this case breaks downpretty easily,
1057
01:16:30,085 --> 01:16:32,045
it's not as complicatedas you might think.
1058
01:16:32,504 --> 01:16:34,590
First of all,one of the issues...
1059
01:16:41,847 --> 01:16:45,434
For years now,it's been argued that this chemical is poisonous,
1060
01:16:45,517 --> 01:16:48,812
but for the first time todaya jury agreed.
1061
01:16:48,895 --> 01:16:51,064
Putting blame on DuPont.
1062
01:16:52,357 --> 01:16:55,652
A plaintiff in the first case of a long line of personal injury wrongful
1063
01:16:55,736 --> 01:17:00,532
death suits against the DuPont company has been rewarded $1.6 million.
1064
01:17:00,616 --> 01:17:04,828
It was definitely a fasten your seat belt kind of moment.
1065
01:17:05,829 --> 01:17:10,250
DuPont realized the jury saw things in a different way then they did.
1066
01:17:10,375 --> 01:17:14,129
This case is the first case against DuPont that went to court,
1067
01:17:14,254 --> 01:17:17,883
and it's going to costthem possibly their reputation.
1068
01:17:20,385 --> 01:17:23,555
I think everybody saw the writing on the wall.
1069
01:17:24,306 --> 01:17:26,099
That if we canwin the first case,
1070
01:17:26,683 --> 01:17:28,727
we can win virtually
all of the cases.
1071
01:17:29,436 --> 01:17:33,440
A Federal jury recently awarded
$5.1 million...
1072
01:17:33,607 --> 01:17:37,486
The jury found that DuPont
acted with malice.
1073
01:17:38,528 --> 01:17:42,074
There's no money in the world they can offer me that's gonna justify...
1074
01:17:43,533 --> 01:17:44,826
This is a criminal offense.
1075
01:17:47,079 --> 01:17:52,668
The CEO's of DuPont are walking around with their freedom, untouched.
1076
01:17:55,253 --> 01:17:57,964
It's like if I go out here and spray arsenic around,
1077
01:17:58,924 --> 01:18:03,470
and then it gets in people's water,and they slowly get poisoned, and they die,
1078
01:18:05,180 --> 01:18:07,516
they'll arrest me and chargeme for murder.
1079
01:18:08,266 --> 01:18:09,601
Then I'll go to jail.
1080
01:18:23,615 --> 01:18:26,076
$16 million?
Really?
1081
01:18:28,120 --> 01:18:34,334
This is a company at the time that was selling$25 billion worth of products every year.
1082
01:18:37,462 --> 01:18:41,883
I am not sure what the right fine would be for contaminating
1083
01:18:41,967 --> 01:18:44,594
humanity, contaminating
the living world.
1084
01:18:45,721 --> 01:18:47,681
But I am pretty sure
it's not $16 million.
1085
01:18:52,477 --> 01:18:59,192
DuPont's big give was to participate in a gradual phase out of C-8.
1086
01:19:05,240 --> 01:19:08,702
By 2015, nobody couldmake C-8.
1087
01:19:12,080 --> 01:19:14,875
They say that we're not gonna stop making Teflon.
1088
01:19:14,958 --> 01:19:18,336
So should we find someside C-8 to make it with?
1089
01:19:19,379 --> 01:19:21,590
GEN-X is whatthey are calling it.
1090
01:19:24,760 --> 01:19:29,222
When there is no safety standard,
there is no required set of tests,
1091
01:19:29,306 --> 01:19:31,767
to bring a chemical to market,
1092
01:19:31,850 --> 01:19:36,313
you never know if getting rid of onechemical is going to result in bringing in
1093
01:19:36,396 --> 01:19:39,274
a substitute that's justas bad or worse.
1094
01:19:41,777 --> 01:19:47,115
Once they started making GEN-X,
DuPont initiated a rat study.
1095
01:19:49,367 --> 01:19:53,705
And the results showed the same kind of tumors that we saw with PFOA.
1096
01:20:16,478 --> 01:20:20,190
Wow! Hello!
1097
01:20:21,107 --> 01:20:23,610
Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
1098
01:20:24,945 --> 01:20:26,905
You're handsome.
You're handsome.
1099
01:20:27,364 --> 01:20:31,910
I'll never forget it,sitting in that pre-op and just thinking,
1100
01:20:32,786 --> 01:20:35,664
you know, "What's my reactiongoing to be when I see him?"
1101
01:20:41,253 --> 01:20:46,049
The first time I saw him,they were cleaning him up, they called me over.
1102
01:20:47,092 --> 01:20:50,554
And I'm thinking to myself, "Please, Lord,
I know this is gonna be okay.
1103
01:20:50,637 --> 01:20:51,930
I know this is gonna be okay.
1104
01:20:52,556 --> 01:20:53,723
But what if it's not okay?"
1105
01:21:04,568 --> 01:21:07,028
That cry I just knew he was...
1106
01:21:07,487 --> 01:21:10,699
His first cry,I knew I was a dad.
1107
01:21:12,951 --> 01:21:15,412
It changed my life.It really did.
1108
01:21:41,730 --> 01:21:43,440
His eyes are closedbut he's smiling.
1109
01:21:43,523 --> 01:21:46,276
This is heaven right here for me.
This is awesome.
1110
01:21:57,746 --> 01:22:00,707
This is not something that I should have to have concerns about,
1111
01:22:00,790 --> 01:22:02,083
for years and years and years.
1112
01:22:02,167 --> 01:22:05,211
That my son can have a deformity because of some water,
1113
01:22:05,462 --> 01:22:08,089
or some chemical thatgot in my blood.
1114
01:22:11,301 --> 01:22:12,469
It's not over yet.
1115
01:22:17,766 --> 01:22:19,267
This isn't the end.
1116
01:22:20,560 --> 01:22:23,271
We're gonna fight tilleveryone is safe.
1117
01:22:30,904 --> 01:22:35,033
I don't know what C-8 doeswith lifelong exposure,
1118
01:22:35,700 --> 01:22:37,494
but changes have to be made.
1119
01:22:43,667 --> 01:22:48,004
We don't have the science yet to explain long term exposure.
1120
01:22:48,505 --> 01:22:52,384
But we're just beginning to understand all kinds of new risks.
1121
01:22:54,719 --> 01:22:58,932
At very low levels this Teflon chemistry can affect the immune system.
1122
01:22:59,015 --> 01:23:01,226
They can have impactson the nervous system.
1123
01:23:01,309 --> 01:23:06,356
They can have impacts on how we metabolize various food nutrients.
1124
01:23:06,523 --> 01:23:07,649
On and on and on.
1125
01:23:09,985 --> 01:23:13,363
If a person is exposedto C-8 on day one,
1126
01:23:13,780 --> 01:23:17,242
they may not manifestdisease for years.
1127
01:23:17,909 --> 01:23:23,164
Children for example,we're starting to see them become ill with latent kinds of disease.
1128
01:23:25,500 --> 01:23:30,964
We don't know how it will affect people for years to come,
1129
01:23:31,047 --> 01:23:33,049
because we're just figuring outwhat it is,
1130
01:23:33,174 --> 01:23:35,927
scientists are justcatching up with it.
1131
01:23:36,845 --> 01:23:40,515
And as they are doing this,they've already phased in the replacement.
1132
01:23:44,811 --> 01:23:46,062
So that's already out there.
1133
01:23:49,441 --> 01:23:52,318
You can see from this story,from this vantage point
1134
01:23:52,694 --> 01:23:54,362
that it almost goes on forever.
1135
01:23:54,988 --> 01:23:58,533
Drinking water inNorth Carolina is being tested
1136
01:23:58,616 --> 01:24:01,161
for a toxic substance calledGEN-X.
1137
01:24:01,244 --> 01:24:04,581
It turned up recentlyin the Cape Fear River.
1138
01:24:04,664 --> 01:24:09,419
GEN-X is the replacement
chemical being used for Teflon production,
1139
01:24:09,502 --> 01:24:13,465
after DuPont was found to be using a previous toxic chemical...
1140
01:24:14,382 --> 01:24:15,800
DuPont did stopusing C-8,
1141
01:24:15,884 --> 01:24:18,261
but they've just replacedone poison with another.
1141
01:24:19,305 --> 01:24:25,925
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