Fish is one of the highest PFAS laden foods. If you're trying to eat less red meat because cows are so bad for the environment, be careful with your fish. Dwayne The Rock Johnson who eats something like 821 pounds of cod every year? He might be doomed. Let's not doom him. I'm a good guy. But sometimes I do bad things.
The chemical manufacturer 3M will pay $10 billion to settle claims it contaminated drinking water with “forever chemicals.” Good thing we already spoke with Barbara Moran, WBUR’s climate and environmental correspondent, who explained these non-stick chemicals that stick around forever.
This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Haleema Shah, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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