Podcast 2|26|2020 Holding Corporations Accountable for Contamination (CHE Alaska)

CHE-Alaska call: Holding Corporations Accountable for Contamination: The Role of Litigation, Regulation and Research to Address the PFAS Problem. This teleconference was recorded on February 26, 2020. Presentation slides can be found at:

Speakers:
Robert Bilott, environmental attorney and author of the book Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer’s Twenty-Year Battle Against DuPont (Atria Books, 2019).

Arlene Blum, Executive Director, Green Science Policy Institute and Research Associate in Chemistry at UC Berkeley

Pamela Miller, Executive Director, Alaska Community Action on Toxics and Co-Chair, International POPs Elimination Network (IPEN)

Description: A growing body of evidence indicates per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are widespread and long-lived in our environment, common in people’s bodies, and harmful to our health. This class of “forever chemicals” has few regulations, and those that do exist permit far greater levels of PFAS exposure than current research findings deem safe. In our February CHE-Alaska call, we’ll be speaking with environmental lawyer and author, Robert Bilott, and Executive Director of the Green Science Policy Institute, Arlene Blum, about their effort educating business and government to reduce the use of entire classes of toxic chemicals like PFAS. We’ll also be joined by Pam Miller, the Executive Director of Alaska Community Action on Toxics, to bring us up to speed on the current state of the PFAS problem in Alaska.

CHE-Alaska is a working group of CHE established by ACAT to advance knowledge and effective action to address growing concerns about the links between human health and environmental factors. CHE-Alaska sponsors monthly statewide teleconference seminars and other public events featuring Alaskans and nationally-renowned scientists, health care professionals, and policy experts who are working on a range of environmental health concerns.

For more information, visit Alaska Community Action on Toxics at

Related Links/ Resources:

Watch a four minute long video on PFAS basics at www.SixClasses.org

Visit www.PFASCentral.org for the latest news, science, policy and products without PFAS

Sign up for monthly e-updates at www.GreenSciencePolicy.org

Threats to Drinking Water and Public Health in Alaska: The Scope of the PFAS Problem, Consequences of Regulatory Inaction, and Recommendations (ACAT, 2019)

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