Episode 97. Forever Chemicals: Sharon Udasin

About this episode

This episode discusses the history and implications of PFAS, featuring environmental journalist Sharon Udasin.

Today's episode is a discussion on the history of PFAS, or forever chemicals, including their accidental development, incorporation into commercial products, concerns about health effects, and environmental contamination and remediation. My guest is Sharon Udasin. Sharon is a Colorado-based environmental journalist and author of Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America. She was a Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2019-2020 and received a SEAL Environmental Journalism Award in 2023. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia Journalism School, she has reported for numerous publications over the past two decades — most recently for The Hill.

People in this episode

Guest: Sharon Udasin

Topics covered

• PFAS
• forever chemicals
• environmental journalism
• health effects
• environmental contamination
• remediation

Keywords

• PFAS
• forever chemicals
• health effects
• environmental contamination
• Sharon Udasin
• journalism
• remediation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Pennsylvania, Columbia Journalism School, The Hill, Ted Scripps Fellow, SEAL Environmental Journalism Award

Books & works: Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America

Places: Colorado

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