The Threat of 'Forever Chemicals'
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 19 June 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Emily Scarr is the Maryland PIRG Director & Co-Author of a new report on industrial substances known as PFAS. How are these very common chemicals potentially harming our health?
Plus Thom reads from 'The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed by Robin Broad and John Cavanagh.
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| 0:47.6 | You may have heard of forever chemicals, PFAS and PFOS and all these other chemicals. |
| 0:54.0 | What are they? What are the consequences of having these in our environment? |
| 0:57.6 | Why are they of consequence? What can we do about this? Where did they come from? |
| 1:01.8 | Emily Skars on the line with us is the, Emily is the director of Maryland, the Maryland Public |
| 1:07.5 | Interest Research Group, the Perg and co-author of a new report on PFAS or PFAS. Is that right, Emily? |
| 1:15.9 | That's right. |
| 1:16.7 | Hey, welcome to the program. So tell us, let's start with definitions here. |
| 1:20.7 | I'm sure I'm mangling the pronunciation per and polyfluor alcohol substances. |
| 1:25.7 | Yeah, you got a per and polyfluor alcohol substances more commonly known as PFAS. |
| 1:30.4 | Yeah, it's a class of thousands of toxic chemicals used to make things |
| 1:34.1 | stain and a waterproof or grease resistant. |
| 1:37.2 | So where do we principally find these chemicals in our world, in our lives? |
| 1:43.4 | Yeah, these days everywhere, right? |
| 1:46.6 | The use of these chemicals for decades has led to mass contamination of our water supply, |
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