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Right now, here is the audio cast of Contaminated, the Carpet Industry's toxic legacy.

Music Carpet Industries' toxic legacy. Unanswered questions about Phafos, also known as forever chemicals.

So if they're forever, how do we address them?

A collaborative investigation.

Our reporting in Northwest Georgia has brought us before numerous people whose drinking water

is contaminated, whose land is contaminated, whose food is contaminated.

Of the chemicals known as PFAS.

All the onus was on EPA to prove that there was an existing chemical causing a problem

before they could take action.

Once they get into people, their body levels stay high for three to 15 years.

And the companies that produced and used them.

These are major employers within these communities, and it is big, big industry.

Now, as part of Frontline's local journalism initiative,

Who should be held accountable is basically a finger-pointing game

between the chemical industry, the carpet industry, and others.

Contaminated, the carpet industry's toxic legacy.

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