Law and litigation for more than 28 years. Hes a former chair of the cincinnati bar associations environmental olaw committee and graduate of the new college of the ba at Ohio State University of law. Jd cum laude. Rob received the International Livelihood award commonly known as the nobel prize for his years of work on pfo a. Please give a warm savanna welcome to rob billott. [applause] good morning. Thank you so much for inviting me here. With t to thank everyone the book festival. This is really an amazing event and im honored to be here. Its moving for me to be part of this group and looking through all the otherfolks that are here you are wondering this guy is a lawyer. Whats going onhere . And thats what i want to talk about today is why i ended up writing this oobook exposure and whats the story about and why i believe its an important story forall of us. You know, i think most of the people in this room have probably heard of flint michigan and the lead crisis, right . Im curio
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Rob blot. [applause] [applause] good morning. Good morning. Thank you so much for inviting me here. I want to thank everyone with the book festival, this is an amazing event and im honored to be here, you know, its really moving for me to be part of this group, im looking through all of the other folks that are here , and youre wondering, this guy is a lawyer. You know whats going on here. And thats what i want to talk about today, is why i ended up writing this book, exposure and whats the story about and why i believe its an important story for all of us. Most of the people in the room have probably heard of flint, michigan and the lead crisis, right . Im curious how many people heard of substances . Some, good. You know, i think most of us realized that we turn on the television, we are watching the news, we saw nonstop coverage of the flint, michigan lead crisis for a good reason, we had contaminated water, children drinking contaminated water, all National News networks, 24 7 cove
Your number is 2027488001. Ask and if you think the Trump Administration has had no impact on nato, we want to hear from you at 2027488002. You can always text us your response on twitter. Com cspanwj and at facebook. Com cspan. Host here is President Trumps talking about the nato conference. President trump the relationship i have with other countries is really good. Yeah, they cant totally love me when i say you are not putting up your money. Youre not spending the kind of money that you are supposed to be spending because were giving you protection. Youre getting the protection of the u. S. And the greatest military force in the world and youre not paying youre delinquent. So i tell some people theyre delinquent. Theyre not going to love that. Otherwise, theyre going to be the way they are in the last 15 years, not paying and not pay up to the 2 level which frankly isnt that high. 2 isnt that high but i had a lunch yesterday that was great. I call the 2 ers the people that were at t
Congress is make to go trying to get to the bottom of things. And facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has a more new friends, and it doesnt involve social network. Hes an all American College football stand out and he is a gay man. Michael samuel who placer at the university of missouri came out in an interview with the New York Times and espn because a lot of teams are looking at sam in the up coming nfl draft, it also means he could become the first openly gay player in pro football. I came to tell the world that im an openly, proud gay man. With those words michael sam if drafted has set himself up to become the first nfl openly gay player. In interviews with espn and the New York Times the 24yearold allamerican defensive lineman said he came out last year to his teammates and his coaches. They rallied around me and supported me, and i couldnt have asked for better teammates. Sam, afc codefensive player of the year said he wanted to tell his story. He said a story it shouldnt make a di