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How to Get PFAS Out of Drinking Water—and Keep It Out
As he saw it, the benefits to the country outweighed the potential personal costs of contaminated water. Every industrial practice came with risks.
Eliza Griswold • Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
The fate of Lovewell Pond might not interest the average person slapping down two bucks for a bottle of Poland Spring at a concession stand, but the issue of who controls water—Howard Dearborn’s ultimate struggle—may in the long run be even more important than how many barrels of oil are burned to quench the nation’s thirst. We can live without oil
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You can eliminate these metals and chemicals by installing a drinking water filtration system, such as a reverse osmosis filter, in your home.
Ben Greenfield • Boundless
Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
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I wanted to speak to garment workers whose exposure to fashion chemistry isn’t through drinking water or contaminated vegetables but is somewhat similar to ours: touching the clothing fresh from the dye units, breathing in the fibers that are coated with chemicals.
Alden Wicker • To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back
human-manufactured plastics have found their way into every crevice, even in the deepest trenches of the ocean and the air above the Arctic.27 In the Anthropocene, many human activities become so large they are hard to fathom. In the Anthropocene, enough plastic has been made that were it cling film it could wrap around the Earth completely.28 In t
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