Fighting Forever Chemicals

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Mike talks with Justin Talbot Zorn, who has served as Legislative Director to three Members of Congress and is a Senior Adviser to the Center for Economic and Policy Research. In his policy and communications work, Justin specializes in climate, innovation, manufacturing, and economic competitiveness. In this conversation, Mike and Justin focus on PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ and environmental policy. Topics Mike and Justin discuss include: - why the US Air Force isn’t cleaning up water it contaminated with PFAS - the military’s big PFAS problem - costs and benefits of cleaning up PFAS in the water supply - what to expect concerning PFAS regulation in the Trump administration - plausible worst and best-case scenarios for the next four years Justin’s article on Trump’s testicle shrinking deregulation. The Politics Guys on Facebook | X Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo we’re @PoliticsGuys. The Politics Guys is part of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:23.3	18 plus opt in and bet on any football marketing at odds of evens or greater no, cash out government, love the government, hug the government, hug the government. Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy. I'm Northern Kentucky University political scientist Michael Baranowski. My guest today is Justin Talbot-Zorn.
0:54.5	He served as legislative director to three members of Congress and is a senior advisor to the
0:59.6	Center for Economic and Policy Research.
1:02.3	He's also written articles for Time, CNN, the LA Times, and a number of other publications.
1:08.7	In his policy and communications work, Justin specialized in climate,
1:12.6	innovation, manufacturing, and economic competitiveness. You should today talk with me about
1:18.0	PFAS forever chemicals and environmental policy. Justin, welcome to the show.
1:23.6	Hey, really good to be here, Mike. Thanks for having me.
1:26.6	Yeah, absolutely.
1:27.8	So, you know, your most recent work focuses on, as I mentioned, environmental issues,
1:33.5	particularly those PFAS chemicals.
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