Ep 49 Alison Ling (Ali) University of St Thomas, St Paul, Minnesota Costs of removing PFAS

About this episode

The episode discusses the costs associated with removing PFAS and the need to reduce its production.

    Welcome back to Talking PFAS podcast and if you are joining me for the first time a very big welcome to you.  I am a journalist and your host Kayleen Bell. Last episode I brought you a discussion with Boston Attorney John Gardella from CMBG3 Law.  This was a very informative chat about some PFAS developments in the US, and changes to the US EPA under Trump administration.   Here is a little of what John had to say from Episode 48 where he is talking a change to the environmental justice law in the US. “Under the Biden Administration there was a large initiative for something we call environmental justice, which is essentially that when enacting environmental laws or pursuing sites to clean up that consideration should be made to historically poorer communities and socioeconomic backgrounds, communities where there has been historically a lot of concentration pollution because they have been in an industrial area for example.  And the environmental justice program in the US has been eliminated under the EPA, under the new Trump Administration.” There is a lot of key information in that discussion with John Gardella and I encourage…

People in this episode

Host: Kayleen Bell

Guest: Alison Ling

Topics covered

• PFAS
• environmental justice
• clean up costs

Keywords

• PFAS removal
• environmental policy
• cost analysis

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Talking PFAS

Books & works: Talking PFAS, Estimated Scale of Costs to Remove PFAS from the Environment

Places: St Paul, Minnesota, Boston, US, Australia

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