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Welcome to the science podcast for May 17, 2019. I'm Sarah Crespi. In this week's show,

Megan Cantwell talks with science writer Sarah Tulpus about a non-stick

chemical that sticks around in groundwater.

And I talk with Sham Golikota about his science translational medicine paper on using a smartphone

to listen for ear infections.

I'm here with Sarah Talpice, who wrote this week's feature to talk about how a small

group of citizens in Rockford, Michigan, uncovered groundwater contamination in their town,

and what the greater implications of this discovery are. Thanks so much for joining me, Sarah.

Thanks for having me, Megan.

Yeah, of course. So could you talk about what prompted these citizens to investigate whether the shoe company factory in their town, Wolverine Worldwide, had contaminated their water?

In 2009, Wolverine Worldwide announced that they would be closing their tannery, which had been in

operation for over a century. And the citizens were requesting the company first do a comprehensive

environmental assessment of the property before the demolition. They knew from other tannery

closures that tanneries often use hazardous substances

when they're transforming raw hides into leather. And so they wanted to be sure that those same

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