Source (National PFAS Conference)
Dark Waters
A tenacious attorney (Mark Ruffalo) uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world’s largest corporations.
No Defense
Focused on Oscoda, Michigan, a small town near a now-closed Air Force base. The U.S. Dept. of Defense (DoD) is the biggest, most dangerous culprit.
The Devil We Know
A group of citizens in West Virginia challenges a powerful corporation to be more environmentally responsible.
Toxic Farmland
VICE News examines the role one Michigan automotive supplier has played in spreading toxic ‘forever chemicals’ to neighboring farms.
The Forever Chemicals
The Great Lakes Now team explores what this new water crisis has meant for families and communities in west Michigan.
Angel of Alabama
A mid-career investigator returns home in rural Alabama to support her mother’s failing health. Amidst unusually rampant disease, she becomes a caretaker for her community until an unexpected diagnosis launches her investigation to heal her county.
Forever Chemicals: North Carolina’s Toxic Tap Water
The documentary explores the PFAS contamination hundreds of thousands of people have been exposed to in their water and are still forced to use today.
Sludge: A PFAS Uprising
“Sludge” tells the stories of farmers who are speaking up about “forever chemicals” poisoning their land, water, and livestock, only to lose everything in the process.
Burned: Protecting the Protectors
The true story of how the spouse of a firefighter revealed significant exposure to forever chemicals affecting the fire community.
Trouble on Tap: Live with Forever Chemicals
A three-part documentary series that looks at how environmental pollution, climate change and aging infrastructure are gradually eroding the ability for more and more communities across the United States to have access to free and potable drinking water.
Special Investigation: Dangerous Chemicals in Compost
A special investigation by Montana PBS into PFAS in sludge and sludge-derived compost and the fate of forever chemicals in farmland and home gardens treated with these products.
The Poison in Us All
A Bloomberg Originals documentary. PFAS chemicals are used in thousands of products aimed at making life easier. But the chemicals are now almost everywhere, including in human blood, and are being linked to severe health problems. Includes perspectives from communities in the Faroe Islands and Minnesota.
Troubled Waters: PFAS on Spokane’s West Plains
The film addresses one of the nation’s worst PFAS pollution hotspots: the West Plains of Spokane, where highly toxic PFAS firefighting foams used at Fairchild Air Force Base and Spokane International Airport have contaminated well water since the 1970’s.