Upcoming Discussion with Author Sharon Udasin

Grace Clark

Join environmental reporter Sharon Udasin for a virtual discussion on her book Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America on Wednesday, January 14th at 7:00 pm EST. 

In her fifteen years of experience, Udasin has worked and reported for many outlets, including for The Hill and as a Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the University of Boulder Colorado. Along with co-author Rachel Frazen, Udasin uses Poisoning the Well to explore how four towns across America have been permanently harmed by corporate greed and a category of toxic chemicals called PFAs (perfluoroalkoxy), nicknamed "the forever chemicals."

Currently, the Massachusetts state government is discussing the Act to Protect Massachusetts Public Health from PFAs bill, which aims to restrict the use of PFAs in new products while allocating funding to test and treat the chemicals already in MA drinking water. If passed, this bill could help protect many small towns from the fates found in Poisoning the Well.

If you would like to help support the bill, click here for a toolkit by the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow. And don’t forget to click here to register for Sharon Udasin’s discussion, hosted virtually by Tewksbury Public Library. You can support the bill or join the discussion from anywhere in the world! Registrants will be able to join the event live and will also receive a recording of the discussion via email.