And so the neighbour told this farmer he had a name for him and to give him a call.”īilott says the farmer had been ignored by the local community when he raised his concerns. “My grandmother had mentioned that I was an environmental lawyer up in Cincinnati, Ohio. I stopped and paid a little more attention.”īilott says the man calling him had just been talking to a neighbour that had just gotten off the phone with his grandmother. I wasn’t sure why he was calling me or how he’d gotten my number and I was actually close to hanging up the phone when he blurted out that he’d gotten my name from my grandmother. “In the fall of 1998, I got a call on my office line and a gentleman on the other end started telling me all about cows dying on his property in West Virginia.
He tells Kathryn Ryan he was actually working on behalf of the chemical companies until, one day, he received a strange phone call. Rob Bilott is currently bringing a lawsuit, on behalf of an Ohio firefighter, against a number of chemical companies over the manufacture of PFAS, or ‘forever chemicals’. Listen to the full interview with Rob Bilott
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