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Episode 97. Forever Chemicals: Sharon Udasin - Science History Podcast

Episode 97. Forever Chemicals: Sharon Udasin - Science History Podcast

Update: 2025-12-10
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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.

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Episode 97. Forever Chemicals: Sharon Udasin - Science History Podcast

Episode 97. Forever Chemicals: Sharon Udasin - Science History Podcast