Another civil action.

It is true that trial lawyers can be greedy troublemakers, but they can also be useful. Here's an example.

Since 1981, DuPont has been making around $200 million a year from the manufacture of Teflon. It has also been suppressing studies showing that a chemical used in making %ton is toxic. A 1981 study showed that the chemical was, reports Los Angeles Times, "toxic to newborn rats, killing some and causing some to be born with eye and facial deformities ... Within a few months, DuPont discovered that two babies out of a group of five born to employees exposed to the chemical at a plant in Parkersburg, W.Va., had similar rare birth defects ... The company found [the chemical] in the blood supply of its female workers ... and also learned ... that the chemical had contaminated the water supply of 30,000 Ohio River Valley residents." The Environmental Protection Agency is now proposing to Free DuPont several hundred million dollars. But, and this is my point, the EPA would not have found out what DuPont had done if the facts had not been uncovered by discovery in a lawsuit.