Mark Ruffalo Hopes His New PFAS Movie Leads to Action

Actor and activist Mark Ruffalo wants a new movie in which he stars about PFAS contamination to spur demand for public and legislative action, Pat Rizzuto, Tiffany Stecker, and Sylvia Carignan write.

• The film “Dark Waters,” based on a 2016 New York Times Magazine article, follows lawyer Rob Bilott’s years-long fight to obtain information from DuPont’s corporate files about diseases and birth defects linked to a chemical formerly used to make Teflon. Our Parts Per Billion podcast has more about it.
• But moving an audience from a theater to political action is challenging, lawmakers and academics say. “It’s rare ...