On-screen chemistry helps explain how the chemistry went wrong [Video]

Hollywood may imitate life but occasionally, it can shine a light and illuminate a shadowy and unacknowledged world kept hidden by lawsuits, spin doctoring and credulousness.

And so it is with Oscar-nominated actor Mark Ruffalo who once played the lawyer famed for launching a seminal class action against US company Dupont over so-called forever chemicals. He is now adding a little star power to a new documentary tracking the battle to hold Wall Street giant 3M Company to account for decades of toxic contamination around the world.

The documentary, Revealed: How To Poison A Planet, exposes the shocking extent to which forever chemicals used in dozens of household products from school uniforms and contact lenses to make-up and cookware have spread globally and can now be found in the bloodstream of 98 per cent of the world’s population. The documentary, which will screen on Stan later this month, is a collaboration between the Herald and its award-winning journalist …