Film Screening: How to Poison a Planet, featuring a Q&A with Rob Bilott

Join The Ohio State University’s Environmental Professionals Network for a free film screening of How to Poison a Planet, a new documentary about PFAS contamination across the water’s world systems, including here in the U.S.

The event will feature a Q&A with the environmental attorney who was the inspiration behind the film Dark Waters, Rob Bilott. The film screening is free, but registration is required.

Agenda:

• 5:00 p.m. Doors open at U.S. Bank Conference Theater at the Ohio Union. Snacks and refreshments are served.
• 6:15 p.m. Welcome remarks provided by Dean Kathy Seward Northern, JD, Associate Dean for Outreach, Engagement and Professional Identity & Jones Day/Robert M. Duncan Designated Associate Professor of Law, The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law.
• 6:20 p.m. Screening of Revealed: How to Poison a Planet (1hr 35min showtime; IMDb link).
• 7:55 p.m. David Hanselmann, Member, Ohio Soil and Water Conservation Commission, and original Founder and Coordinator of the Environmental Professionals Network (EPN) at Ohio State, provides brief reactionary remarks to the film and introduces the panel.
• 8:00 p.m.?Fireside discussion, featuring documentary cast member and inspirational environmental attorney Rob Bilott, JD, Taft Law Firm; Author, Exposure and Juliana Huizenga, PhD, senior environmental engineer at Cyclopure. Conversation moderated by Callia Téllez, 2L Student, Ohio State, Moritz College of Law.
• 8:35 p.m.?Audience Q&A with Bilott, Huizenga, and Téllez.
• 9:00 p.m. Event concludes.