How To Poison a Planet
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How To Poison a Planet
Our investigation into the unfolding story of contamination, cancer, cover-up and corporate malfeasance that features in a major Stan documentary.
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Wall Street
The disappearing words exposing 3M’s decades of deception over cancer link
The explosive document delivered a “holy shit” moment to lawyers fighting the Wall Street giant, showing the company had known for decades about the dangers of its forever chemicals.
- by Carrie Fellner
Opinion
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New consumer laws needed to protect us from forever chemicals
The federal government must address the hole in the consumer law and make it illegal to sell unsafe products.
- by The Herald's View
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Jervis Bay
As kids they splashed in the bubbles. Then these sisters got the same one-in-a-million tumour
There are burning questions about the health effects of the “forever chemicals” that are in us all.
- by Carrie Fellner
‘None of us had a choice in this’: How these man-made chemicals will affect us for generations
A new Stan documentary explores the impact toxic man-made chemicals are having on all of us.
- by Michael Idato
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Water
Australian drinking water now allows a carcinogen at 140 times the US rate
Twenty-year-old Amara Strande’s deathbed crusade pushed the US to slash the levels of cancer-linked forever chemicals considered safe in drinking water.
- by Carrie Fellner
Why Carrie Fellner spent nearly a decade chasing the story of ‘forever chemicals’
From Williamtown, to Minnesota in the US and Wreck Bay on the NSW South Coast, Fellner has tracked the toxic trail of destruction left by a corporate giant.
Mark Ruffalo on the ‘evil’ company that poisoned every person on the planet – then kept it secret
The Hollywood actor will feature in a new Stan documentary exposing how 3M’s “forever chemicals” have sparked a worldwide contamination catastrophe.
- by Michael Idato
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Pollution
This factory contaminated the whole world. And you helped pay for it
Most Australians can expect to find forever chemicals – also known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFAS) – in their blood.
- by Carrie Fellner