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: 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

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 Dark Water

: A legal thriller directed by Todd Haynes that brought national attention to the health impacts of Teflon production. : Mariah Blake's article "Welcome to Beautiful Parkersburg,