Dark Water Apr 2026

This investigation inspired the 2019 film Dark Waters , starring Mark Ruffalo, which dramatizes attorney Robert Bilott's decades-long legal battle against the chemical giant for contaminating a West Virginia town with toxic "forever chemicals" (PFAS/PFOA). Key Media and Articles

: Mariah Blake's article "Welcome to Beautiful Parkersburg, West Virginia" (2015) and Sharon Lerner's "Bad Chemistry" series in The Intercept also covered the scandal. Other Notable Works with Similar Titles The Lawyer Who Became DuPont's Worst Nightmare Dark Water

: Written by Nathaniel Rich for The New York Times Magazine in 2016, it exposes how DuPont knowingly dumped PFOA (C8) into local water supplies. This investigation inspired the 2019 film Dark Waters

: A legal thriller directed by Todd Haynes that brought national attention to the health impacts of Teflon production. : A legal thriller directed by Todd Haynes

: Titled Exposure (2019), it provides a firsthand account of the investigation and legal proceedings.