TT073 – Behind the Scenes of Water and Environment Reporting
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Michael Phillis discusses his experiences in environmental reporting and the PFAS contamination crisis in Wisconsin.
Tap Talk Season 7 is here! Today, we bring you a conversation with Michael Phillis, a water & environment reporter for the Associated Press. Michael tells Jennifer & Steve about how he got into environmental reporting, the importance and range of stories about water, and the experience of reporting the recent long-form investigation " A crisis emerges across the US as 'forever chemicals' quietly contaminate drinking water wells " with his colleague Helen Wieffering . This story centers the well contamination crisis in Stella, Wisconsin, a town of ~600 people in northern Wisconsin, where some well water tests have found PFAS concentration levels of 375 times the federal limit for drinking water connected to a nearby paper mill. Visit drinkingwaterpodcast.org to learn more and find the full show notes for this episode.
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