America’s Forever Chemical Crisis: Poisoned Farms, Tainted Water, Government Inaction | NewsNation

One year after the NewsNation’s Edward R. Murrow-Winning investigation “Growing Broke: Forever Chemicals in America’s Heartland,” Natasha Zouves continues to cover America’s PFAS crisis — and the picture may be more urgent than before.

In this full segment, Natasha talks with Scott Faber of the Environmental Working Group (EWG) to break down what’s happened in the last year:

• Estimates that nearly 70 million acres of U.S. cropland may be contaminated with PFAS from sewage sludge

• How many of us are drinking tap water laced with “forever chemicals” and what that means for our health

• The EPA’s recent move to roll back parts of its own PFAS drinking water standards and possibly delay protections for years

• The EPA’s new approval of PFAS-based pesticides being sprayed on crops like lettuce and broccoli

• Gov. Gavin Newsom’s veto of a bill that could have banned PFAS from cookware

• The revolving door between chemical companies, lobbyists and the very regulators tasked with protecting public health

This conversation is a companion to our “Growing Broke” investigation, which exposed how sewage sludge marketed as “fertilizer” left family farms contaminated with PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” wiping out herds, collapsing land values and leaving many farmers on the brink of ruin.

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