by Carol Kahn and Jay Bitkower | Nov 9, 2022 | ACKC Investigates
In 2006, Mike from Pennsylvania was diagnosed with advanced kidney cancer that had spread to his ribs. His doctor prescribed Sutent (sunitinib), at the time, a newly approved Pfizer drug, which cost $179 for a 50 mg pill. The dosage for Sutent is one pill daily for...
by Jay Bitkower | Jun 13, 2022 | ACKC Investigates
The chemical site near Parkersburg, WV, source of the waste at the center of the DuPont class-action lawsuit. Source: The New York Times This story begins in October 1996 on Wilbur Earl Tennant’s farm outside of Parkersburg, WV, a town of 30,000 people located across...
by Jay Bitkower | Jun 13, 2022 | ACKC Investigates
It was 2014. Michael Hickey wanted to sleep at night. He had uncovered a terrible truth that meant accusing the biggest employer, Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics, in the small, upstate New York town of Hoosick Falls, of polluting their drinking water. His friends...
