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Podcast: Future Cities ¡ Sustainability, Energy, Innovation, Climate Change, Transport, Housing, Work, Circular Economy, Education & Environmental Solutions
Episode: Rob Bilott ¡ Environmental Lawyer ¡ Author of âExposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyerâs Twenty-Year Battle Against DuPontâ ¡ Partner Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP (Highlights)
Description: âIt's kind of a scary thought. We've got these PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), you hear them now referred to as forever chemicals because these chemicalsânone of these existed on the planet prior to World War IIâthey're fairly recent invention and they have this unique chemical structure that makes them incredibly useful in a lot of different products, manufacturing operations, but also that same chemical structure makes them incredibly persistent and incredibly difficult to break down once they get out into the environment, into the natural world, into our soil, into our water. They simply, many of them...