Cases

For decades, chemical manufacturers knew that the substances known collectively as PFAS were hazardous to human health. And they hid what they knew from the public and from federal regulators.

Heather Von St. James is a 12-year mesothelioma cancer survivor who has dedicated her life to spreading awareness of mesothelioma and the dangers of asbestos.

James Holstun and Martha T. McCluskey discuss issues of industry ties corrupting academic integrity, both at the University at Buffalo and nationally.

Harold Bock talks about his work with the advocacy group Keep Your Promises DuPont, leading the fight to hold DuPont and Chemours accountable for toxic water contamination and the companies’ decades-long cover-up in WV.

Activist Eboni Cochran talks about chemical plants and the right to know.

The fossil fuel industry’s problematic dealings with a weak regulatory agency were a factor in the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

The NRA used its influence over a Congressman to codify language preventing the CDC from funding research into gun violence, which kills and injures tens of thousands of people in the US each year.

After an FDA study revealed that chickens treated with Pfizer’s drug, Roxarsone, had dangerously high levels of arsenic in their bodies, the company colluded with the agency to downplay the risks in its communications.

Despite decades of deception on the climate risks of fossil fuel extraction, ExxonMobil for years sponsored the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union, one of the nation’s most prominent scientific associations.

Philip Morris funded university research programs, sometimes with contracts that breach university ethics requirements, as part of a concerted public relations and marketing strategy to improve tobacco’s tarnished image.

The Marcellus Shale Coalition, a fossil fuel trade association, has tried to use the reputation and credibility of universities and its scientists to promote natural gas