Mark Ruffalo tells Europeans on the environment: “You guys are the heroes now”

By Khaled Diab | META | February 5, 2020

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"Hollywood superstar Mark Ruffalo spoke in Brussels today about his new film Dark Waters, which depicts the lengthy legal battle against a US corporation which polluted the environment with toxic “forever chemicals” for decades.

Despite REACH, the world’s strictest chemical legislation, Europe faces similar risks from under-regulated chemical innovation. This demands urgent legislative reform.

At the European Parliament today, Hollywood superstar and prominent activist Mark Ruffalo spoke about his critically acclaimed, hard-hitting new film Dark Waters chronicling the decades-long cover up of the health and environmental consequences of Dupont’s dumping of the toxic chemical C8 (which it used in the manufacturing of Teflon) into the local water supply..."