Forever chemicals: The threat of PFAS in our water

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (known as PFAS) are long-lasting compounds that are showing up in soil, ground water, drinking water sources, even rainfall, and have been linked to cancer, liver damage, thyroid disease, and other ailments. By some estimates, this toxic family of chemicals can be found in the blood of nearly every person on the planet. Correspondent Lee Cowan looks at how the chemicals got here, and talks with families, farmers, and health advocates fighting for clean, safe water.
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[@JiminPalmSprings]

DuPont and 3M should be sued out of existence

[@MrPriebster]

And 3M makes a ton of masks

[@pattyrooney1323]

@@MrPriebster Duck duck go...morgellon's fibers found in face masks+ swabs

[@raystiles9506]

It must be nice to be obtuse, florid is rat poison that the Nazi's used during the holocaust and in your drinking water to protect you teeth from dental decay and Intel to fabricate computer chips... Dark Waters 2020 kzbin.info/www/bejne/iKekgKiertqhnrs

[@Anon-xd3cf]

Board members and CEOs of those companies PAST & PRESENT need to go to prison. And not a comfortable white collar prison either... A max security orange jumpsuit facility. ... Maybe then we might see the private prison industry brought down soon after as the rich and powerfull locked up there start to force changes to the system.

[@Anon-xd3cf]

@@MrPriebster And most if not all 3M masks contain... PFAS.

[@stevec404]

"No one who lives off the land would willingly poison it." But those who covet wealth above all else willingly do.

[@angelfirelite]

TRUE WORDS!

[@realbeautyness25]

EXACTLY THEY RUINED THE LANDS NOW WANT TO SCARE US SHOULD HAVE LET THINGS BE THE OLD WAYS WERE BEST 🤷🏿‍♀️

[@ILovePancakes24]

Fake wealth. Fiat wealth is a game of who has the most zeros.

[@christinemott8799]

Not true. The old pioneers put there out house dover the rivers they drank out of.the river.

[@realbeautyness25]

@@christinemott8799 I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE SAYING BUT THE PIONEERS IN THE UNITED STATES 🙄 STOLE ALL OF NORTH AMERICA FROM THE NATIVES COMMITTED HORRIFIC GENOCIDES AND CALLED IT MANIFEST DESTINY GOOD GRIEF CHARLIE BROWN

[@michellebeckstrom6110]

The lady saying: "They didn't tell anyone because they were making too MUCH MONEY" FINALLY SOMEONE WHO POINTS OUT THOSE AT FAULT.

[@flumpaustin1994]

@Couper Weaver Creepy

[@twilightgardenspresentatio6384]

I want justice, we have records

[@chrisbova9686]

they still haven't touched upon the real motive, and it's NOT profit.

[@manie3232]

Really. The water didn't get poisoned by itself!

[@modernwarrior24]

@Couper Weaver LMAO

[@johngranato2673]

And this is why a free press is essential!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@starglow4375]

But its controlled......................................... The Chosen Ones who own Dupont and Black Rock who own most of the shares in Vanguard who owns 3M. The Chosen ones are really more like the corrupted ones ALWAYS placing money before people..

[@teresalegler2777]

Thanks for this report. It’s sickening to think these companies knew 60 years ago what the effects of PFAS would be and not stop before it became a worldwide disaster.

[@margaretmukasa2998]

Politicians were lobbied with a big check to ignore the problem 🙄

[@1badjane493]

Flint , Mich. was just as bad. Our country is just slowly killing itself over material crap & love of 💰..

[@interrupted9671]

This world is killing us.

[@tsvandyke]

( read the book "silent Spring" - 1957 ) YOU knew of this 60 years ago - as well - but decided to IGNORE it / blame "others" for how poisonous the fertilizers & pest killer YOU were putting on your lawns were - in the 1960's

[@tsvandyke]

" Others are to blame for PFAS in 'my drinking water " ... ROUND-UP ( weed killer ) is a pfas - How many times have you used this product around your house? ... but "others are to blame for this" ???

[@carinwiseman4309]

We will all continue to pay for our lifestyle we have had for the last 100 years.

[@tennyceb]

Exactly

[@adamslater7486]

This is the most terrifying thing I've never heard of.

[@julierogers1155]

I recommend also watching DARK WATERS (movie).

[@microbehunter7584]

Thats because the effects are not immediately felt, but long term exposure is devastating to the body.

[@videolux8k861]

More and more will Come, since we have more and more heatwaves and there will be no return way.

[@jillibeanwi1]

Watch Dark Waters, they have known they were poisoning us for YEARS and have never cared. Very good, informative movie.

[@quick-permits9397]

Not until you learn about "The Hydra"

[@mecarr]

Great reporting. Everyone should watch this

[@marsharowaihy6725]

Agree ☝️

[@barrymiller99]

One of your most important segments ever.

[@sosure]

how is that? we can't do anything about it but Panic! Thank cbs news for nothing

[@julierogers1155]

DEFINITELY. It needs to repeated, at least annually.

[@bearwilliams2216]

@@sosure Because identifying a problem is the first step to solving it? It's not the press's job to _SOLVE_ problems, it's their job to report on them and inform. This piece did exactly that. If there are solutions, they'll usually mention them. But they generally aren't the ones coming up with them... But for the record, the piece _did_ point out that there may be solutions, but we need to demand action from the government and corporations *_now_* to get them implemented on the scale needed or find better solutions. Constituent outcry could really hurry that along, especially in an election year... _That_ is the purpose of journalism.

[@shwndrws7785]

@@sosure the ground water mesh is interesting. Ground water is the unspoken tomorrow we aren't watching today. Idk if ppl panicked about water and energy are aware we standing on a big kettle. There's more water under our feet than under our boats. We just dont care yet. So these small efforts may lead to an actually good lvl headed system of ground wells and studied terra forming towards a future proof nation. I mean well probably end up nuking our own over cults in competition but i mean it COULD happen, right?

[@donnabaardsen5372]

@@sosure How ridiculous. Yes, we CAN do a lot of things to eat, drink, and live healthier. It takes more work to do these things, but it's well worth the effort. Seriously, lighten up, and get to work!

[@nenajimenez2266]

Depount and 3M are both in fayetteville NC- the EPA should make them pay for all the damage they have done.

[@KoolT]

They dumped it into the CAPE FEAR in NC

[@kimlarso]

Don’t forget about Camp Lejuenes toxic water for decades!

[@brianbullard8291]

DuPont

[@shekharmoona544]

These politicians have created laws and policies to prevent them from paying meaningful amounts or doing their fair share.

[@starglow4375]

The Chosen Ones who own Dupont and Black Rock who own most of the shares in Vanguard who owns 3M. The Chosen ones are really more like the corrupted ones ALWAYS placing money before people..

[@phole1100]

It literally blows my mind that we let the chemical companies do this to us. They MUST BE STOPPED.

[@dawnareno]

Radium girls were just the start of showing how companies will always choose profits over people

[@albatross8]

Don’t buy the product

[@ancient6676]

The issue is that it's in everything. The more you look up, you realize everything we consume it's in it. @@albatross8

[@Joe-ns2gs]

I was physically ill after watching this last Sunday. How can this happen in America? Seeing that man, his, home, and his cows was absolutely heartbreaking.

[@starglow4375]

The Chosen Ones who own Dupont and Black Rock who own most of the shares in Vanguard who owns 3M. The Chosen ones are really more like the corrupted ones ALWAYS placing money before people..

[@vanellesmith4598]

Capitalism, white secrets, and greed is how.

[@beebee4334]

It’s not America- it’s happening in all locations where these factories exist. I saw another documentary where many Dutch workers are sick with cancer over the same chemical types, even through DuPont told them the environment was safe. And even crazier, they are seeing health affects in the Faroe Islands (Atlantic) because the gulf steam carries those Chemicals and food supply has become contaminated, as they mainly eat fish for their main source of food. You would think fish are supposed to be healthy and clean in remote island villages !? But the Gulf Stream carried those chemicals snd it seems to be the children that are having the most effects.

[@Scott-pe6te]

PFAS are in teflon. I stopped cooking with teflon pans sometime ago given PFAS risk.

[@jeepsblackpowderandlights4305]

Not just in pans. Its in fast food boxes and wrappers.. and in everything else non stick.

[@sherriianiro747]

Interesting how no legislation has come from EPA since the 90's, it's right up there with no anti - trust laws enforced and bailing out banks. It is always the responsible people who pay - both financially and in health.

[@larsonfamilyhouse]

Trump tried extremely hard to dismantle the epa

[@evergreen8965]

The state of Maine is dumping PFAS into the Penobscot River. The factory needed to clean up the water is too costly. However, the state gave out stimulus checks this year. Priorities 👎🏻. Do people making 150k need stimulus checks??? The native Penobscot tribe deserves clean water, as does our oceans.

[@freedomle4022]

Hold the manufacturers accountable. I'm sure someone is being paid off to overlook, turn a blind eye to this. Pollution in our drinking water is just wrong. High levels fluoride, lead, medication and now pfas. We don't stand a chance if this isn't corrected. There's too much suffering as it is with everything else going on in our country. Change is needed.

[@larsonfamilyhouse]

Trump tried to dismantle the EPA!

[@harsimran1]

Corporations only pay fines. Humans go to jail. The ability to pay off a fine is significantly lower than the ease and profit that very large corporations rack up by doing harm to the environment. The small guy and end customer pays their price ultimately. Always. Corporation ultimate beneficiary owners should be held liable personally for the actions their corporations do, at least when it comes to environmental damage like this that directly affects the food stock for the world's human and animal populations.

[@donnabaardsen5372]

Wrong, Freedom, we DO "stand a chance," but it takes a lot of work to eat, drink, and live healthier. However, having a defeatist attitude let's the bad guy's win. Not in my world!

[@harsimran1]

@@donnabaardsen5372 All it requires to fix this nonsense, are instructions from the people delegating their chosen elected officials to clean up this mess. There is a maxim in law that goes like this: The voice of the people is the voice of God. How many people sent a letter of instruction to their elected officials demanding their water resources to be kept clean and clear from all harmful substances? How many are actively demanding through instructions to their elected officials that a new safety standard be adopted as a matter of emergency? No one. You're all going to protest. Use a tool given to you by the elite, but never write instructions to your delegated officials en-mass.

[@realmusic4you]

Don't forget the biological, physical assault on humanity disguised as the Corona Virus.

[@bizzmoneyb]

i watched a documentary about this recently. Duponts factory was just dumping it in the river! and tried to cover it up! many men working at the factory died of cancers, and women had children with serious birth defects.

[@julierogers1155]

Recommend watching the movie, Dark Waters ... a 2019 American legal thriller film directed by Todd Haynes. The story dramatizes Robert Bilott's case against the chemical manufacturing corporation DuPont after they contaminated a town with unregulated (PFAS) chemicals.

[@nicolehunter5927]

Wow thank for info .

[@julierogers1155]

@@nicolehunter5927 Let me know what you think if you watch it?

[@microbehunter7584]

Great movie, and shows the dangers we are not aware of and the corporations that try and cover it all up from the consumers for the all mighty dollar.

[@eh3477]

Also shows how for dozens of years, certain industries were basically allowed to self-regulate; a recipe for disaster. This chemical is so indestructible that it's found worldwide. The USSC and GOP are now trying to remove much of the EPAs current authority to regulate chemicals. Be very afraid.

[@nitsudocsicnarf347]

The children all proved birth defects, yet the mothers got nothing. The mothers worked with the chemicals directly and were then told, No pregnant women can work with it. Too late by that time. Babies were born looking like the calves down stream with the same birth defects. Yet, everyone still has faith in government and evil corporations.

[@mililaniman]

I wonder if how much PFAS chemicals are in the water supply in Hawaii. This is a very insightful story.

[@janetpattison8474]

Hawaii has a very serious problem in an area where there is a military base. I saw a horrific headline recently on it, toxins leaking fro. Military containers near kids schools, but didn’t read the story. I’m in FL and NC, and both areas have MAJOR problems. (8/2022)

[@bizzmoneyb]

its there. it evaporates with water that goes up into the clouds, then literally rains this crap. they found it in the Arctic. thanks Dupont! hope your billions of dollars was worth poisoning the entire PLANET!

[@larsonfamilyhouse]

@@janetpattison8474 like how everybody who was at that school in New Jersey has brain tumors was it?

[@itsweaponX]

Hawaii has a ton of serious issues and ongoing litigation. Mostly with DoD because military uses PFAS and PFOA in fire retardant

[@angelinimartini]

This is just so important for people to know. It’s not even just PFAS we need to worry about. Lots of industries, including our military, are poisoning at drinking water. It is so important that we are always aware and that we test our water. Also, what sort of compensation is the farmer going to have? Because this is unfair for people that are affected.

[@colbysvids]

Their are so dam many chemicals in the environment it's horrifying. I just saw something on micro plastics being found in ice core samples in the arctic and found in all the great lakes. Even the fish tested in the great lakes have micro plastics in their own flesh. Man (globally as a species) really did drop the ball on the environment, I would say starting with the industrial revolution maybe earlier?

[@larsonfamilyhouse]

@@colbysvids humans have microplastics inside them. They’re in our lungs and in our blood.

[@lovepickingnc9313]

It's been in our water, and may still be there. Our water company won't test for it unless they are required to. It's sickening.

[@billdell3051]

Yes Profits before people Sad and angry.

[@meehow72]

I have a job interview with 3M on Monday. Watching this made me sick to my stomach and makes me want to reconsider if I could work for a company like that. How are they any different than a cigarette company or any part of the pharma industry?

[@nomaticors]

They are worse. Everyone in the whole world is at risk.

[@the_rubbish_bin]

At least cigarettes and pharmaceuticals come with warning labels...

[@ag-bk5wf]

Sadly all companies contribute to pollution to a degree. Some are aware and try to minimize the effect.

[@Nyx773]

How did the interview go?

[@shitmandood]

Don’t forget the micro plastics in the blood stream

[@rebekkad.2092]

Such a sad story. And I'm sure it's not the only one that ends in heartbreak.

[@rebeccaainslie4637]

It is wide spread contamination! We have saturated our environ with PFAs! Have a drink of water!

[@velvetbees]

He's such and kind and gentle man to his animals. He still keeps them too. It hurts to see their business destroyed.

[@Meekseek]

There's a lot more which is poisoning all the land and water than what these msm moguls are disclosing here like why is there "Elevated silver barium and strontium in antlers vegetation & soil"?

[@rebeccaainslie4637]

@@Meekseek very true!But plastics and their forever chemicals are in our body's and the body's of our children and causing liver, kidney and assorted cancers in all peoples! Pesticides are another source! I blame corruptions like Monsanto and lax government oversite!

[@torihawthorne6732]

This is terrifying. I literally live less than 5 miles from Dupont/Chemours plant right by the river in New Johnsonville, TN.

[@starglow4375]

The Chosen Ones who own Dupont and Black Rock who own most of the shares in Vanguard who owns 3M. The Chosen ones are really more like the corrupted ones ALWAYS placing money before people..

[@elenafoleyfoley168]

Water, from its formula weight -18- one would predict it would be a gas at ordinary temperatures & pressures. Ammonia - with a formula weight of 17- is a gas at temperatures as low as minus 33'C. at atmospheric pressure. Hydrogen sulfide,, closely related to water by position in the periodic table & with a formula weight of 34, is a gas at temperatures down to minus 59°C. The fact that water exists as a liquid at all, at ordinary temperatures is something to make one stop and think. Water defys the laws of cold rationality. But leave it to greedy human idiots to add chemicals destroying our Life source is just mind boggling 😡 No living thing can survive without water, I cannot understand this. All those poor people who have dedicated their lives to farming, their payment is some form of cancer, diseased animals and farmland. This is an absolute outrage, how dare they 💔

[@anneinfurna8528]

Could you imagine how long we all would live if they had not Contaminated the Air, Water, and the soil? But I sleep better knowing that My tax Dollars soon to be taken from all of us at Gunpoint, will be going into the pockets of our Senators and Congressmen's mouths with Fresh, contamination free Food and Water. Doesn't that make you feel Good too?

[@bobmichaelson3580]

Water is a very interesting compound, and indeed it should make one stop and think, but it doesn't "defy the laws of cold rationality"! It differs from hydrogen sulfide in that, for example, the latter doesn't have hydrogen bonds (except at very low temperatures). It's bonding is also very different from NH3. When writing about rationality, it is best to approach your subject rationally.

[@friedrice2912]

What attracted water to 🌎? Riddle me this?

[@elenafoleyfoley168]

@@bobmichaelson3580 Thankyou for pointing that out Sir 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@lukebieniek9069]

Seriously you're gonna give us a science lesson in the comment section when we're not even through barfing up our breakfast yet???

[@adamblackman6660]

Forever chemicals will inevitably cause fertility to drop, exponentially. Erin Brockovich did a great report on this coming crisis.

[@mrike5651]

That's why young men my age age skinny and lack of testosterone it's sad including me.

[@kryptopcgamer589]

@@mrike5651 Get on TRT

[@pamalasharp597]

No one has said how to punish such evil. WTF!!! Our government included!

[@addisontaylor3084]

No one I'd being punished but you, me , and everyone else. Even the government ppl will get cancer and die from pfas

[@rutgerhauser2377]

A UC Berkeley scientist researched the effects of atrazine in the water supply. He found the chemical has profound impacts on hormones, in his tests with frogs he found it even causes hermaphroditism. The company that sells the pesticide the harassed the scientist, even considered tried to get to his therapist to get dirt. They lobbied the epa so that only they can research atrazine, and all outside research is no longer considered "credible." Great use of our taxpayer dollars epa!

[@majestic7768]

Governments are of the people, and usually evil entities because people for the most part are evil.

[@addisontaylor3084]

@@majestic7768 omg, you get it! I want to talk to you. I 100% agree humans are inherently bad

[@gqp3215]

Strict state regulation

[@breal7277]

"They didn't tell the EPA." Oh, the EPA knew. They just looked the other way. Government works in cahoots with the corporations; it's not a government for the people. The people are just the ones that pay the taxes.

[@billyjoesmo8251]

Suitcases of money to the EPA is a common circumstance

[@itsweaponX]

Crony capitalism. They pay bribes to federal regulators to look the other way

[@rogeco60]

Don't worry! I've been told for 50 years that science is going to solve all our environmental problems.

[@RoolSkool]

I thought you would mention Robert Bilott. Who sued Dupont

[@danceteacherrlb]

I teach at a very small rural private school. In our senior class there are just twelve students. When one girl came down with cancer, we were all shocked. Several months later, a second girl is getting biopsies for cancer...

[@nipples8776]

Biopsies are a horrible idea

[@anidiquaojala1804]

and "they" wonder why trust in the government is lost due to their actions and lack there of...SMH!!!

[@chucktangy]

The farmer's final statement illustrates how profound our misunderstanding of how environmental problems have to be handled. Farmers are in their essence alone and they view all problems as mine alone to solve. They don't expect help nor do they ask for it (except for ag subsidies but just mentioning that will get you in a fight). But the mentality of the farmer is if you have a problem it's your responsibility to solve it. That outlook makes them tough and resilient but it also prevents them from understanding how problems are collectively solved. It's a different skill set and this farmer, who by no fault of his own, still blames himself for his farm being contaminated by pfas. He knows it's not his fault but he still feels that it is. He just doesn't get that his personal choices had very little to do with this outcome. Or that there isn't a personal choice that could've prevented this outcome. That fact would shock him if he really internalized the ramifications of it. Environmental problems are a class of problems that can only be solved through collective solutions and that runs counter to deeply held American beliefs in the last 50 years probably longer. We just saw how the lack of using collective action played out with COVID because public health problems fall into this collective solutions class of problems. It didn't go well because we've lost this muscle of using collective action to solve these problems.

[@nipples8776]

Communist spotted

[@chucktangy]

@@nipples8776 No! I'd be a communist if I said ALL problems must be solved by collective action. I'm NOT saying that. I'm saying NOT ALL problems can be solved by individual choice. Therefore, some problems can be solved by personal choice alone. Market based solutions CAN work in lots of situations, and there's nothing wrong with that. But there does exist some problems that resist solutions using personal choices alone. I'm not sure why the fact that some problems are solved by personal choices, and some problems that are solved by collective action should be that controversial. They really are 2 ways to solve problems and we should use both to solve problems at best align with each methodology.

[@josephvandorpjv]

We're dealing with Chromium-6 in our ground water where I live .

[@julierogers1155]

UGH, so sorry. These greedy, criminal corporations are going to destroy ALL LIFE on earth.

[@JohnLee-db9zt]

Sounds like an essential mineral to me.

[@josephvandorpjv]

@@JohnLee-db9zt what's essential about a Carcinogenic heavy metal that causes Non-Hodgkins-Lymphoma , Thyroid Cancer, Brain Tumors and Glioblastoma, Kidney and Renal failure and cancers, Pancreatic cancer, Pancreatitis, Gall bladder cancer, Bladder Tumors and Cancer, Breast Cancer? Answer that ...

[@starglow4375]

The Chosen Ones who own Dupont and Black Rock who own most of the shares in Vanguard who owns 3M. The Chosen ones are really more like the corrupted ones ALWAYS placing money before people..

[@susannpatton2893]

Can we all see the corporate greed in front of your face now? They knew for 70 yrs and did not care about their own employees nor anyone or thing else but that money Sound familiar?

[@philyeary8809]

Sounds like $camdemic with its 75 year clause of immunity.

[@susannpatton2893]

@@philyeary8809 what are you talking about?

[@susannpatton2893]

@@sl4x372 has no relation to the subject

[@starglow4375]

The Chosen Ones who own Dupont and Black Rock who own most of the shares in Vanguard who owns 3M. The Chosen ones are really more like the corrupted ones ALWAYS placing money before people..

[@chaoticstylez]

This should get major exposure. How can the government be looking away from such a crisis. Plastic manufacturers as well as companies using plastic packaging should be accountable for the damage.

[@ILovePancakes24]

There's so much pfas out there. Crazy how even the execs are drinking pfas.

[@letsrazzledazzle]

Sadly ironic but the yellow jacket the reporter is wearing at 10:55 is most likely made waterproof with the use of PFAs, the stuff is literally everywhere.

[@charliesmith_]

exactly ⚡

[@boelensds]

can also be done with waterglass.

[@Crzydiamondz]

Perhaps I missed something? What did Fred mean at the end when he said, “it happened on my watch. It’ll be gone, that’ll be the end of it.” Is he gonna lose the farm because of the contamination? If so, that’s just wrong! The chemical plant should have to pay him for the harm they have caused. They have the money to, even if they are hiding it…

[@BBradshawProductions]

He meant PFAS destroyed his farm and he will lose it. The farm was his responsibility. Eventhough it wasn't his fault, he was responsible for taking care if it.

[@Raja1938]

If he can't sell any of the farm's production or even use the water, of course he'll lose it.

[@mwmann3684]

They ignored Flint, Michigan. Poetically, NOW we are ALL in the SAME boat. 🤔😎

[@susannpatton2893]

Flint is lead in their water. Different but still a poison. And 2 the reason they want it to die down is because all the other cities have the same pipes.

[@robinhood4640]

"We assume the water to be safe". We assume the food we eat, the air we breathe and the products we put on our skin to be safe too. We assume that the organisations that exist to protect us, put our health before financial gain. We assume these things because we believe what we are led to believe.

[@Wop-a-hoe]

It is called being bamboozled.. it sucks, but true. Many gave their rights away back in the 1980’s. (Maybe longer) but I noticed it because I lived a different life. But observed.. Us & them mentality.. 👍🏽 being treated as “black sheep” was a blessing in disguise 🥸 watching the dumbing down of America, then these people have children who were so progressive and cool. (So they thought) let’s be friends with our kids.. yeah! Now the children are disrespectful, mouthy, slap their parents, run the household and they think it’s cute 😊 they now slap up on the police 👮‍♂️ seen it with my own eyes.. because they are children it is tolerated.. please wake up..

[@philyeary8809]

@@Wop-a-hoe since 1950.op Paperclip Tunguskee After Uvalde, cops get smacked up.

[@d.virgallito3490]

G R E E D, 1 of the 7 deadly sins compounded by the sin of omission, they knew!

[@starglow4375]

The Chosen Ones who own Dupont and Black Rock who own most of the shares in Vanguard who owns 3M. The Chosen ones are really more like the corrupted ones ALWAYS placing money before people..

[@alexi2460]

Thank you. I wish more people in the usa and the globe could stand up against plastics and chemicals.

[@whisperinghallelujahhatrac6181]

Ignorance is bliss. This is the way the world ends…wrapped in plastic…

[@kisigma1011]

Yup

[@ediebaxter6194]

Very sad for the farmers and people who live in America. Someone needs do something about it.

[@KoolT]

Dumped into CAPE Fear river in NC

[@tsvandyke]

1/4 of Texas Framlands - destroyed - by 1 company in a week ?? WOW - it only took 65 years for Society to notice the facts given in a 1957 book ... about chemicals in our drinking water ... "Silent Spring"

[@julierogers1155]

Yes VERY SAD for the farmers and all living organisms in the area .... note: PFAS are found ALL OVER THE WORLD now.

[@tsvandyke]

AGAIN - with the "someone else needs to clean up the mess I made" ... what is WRONG with ( recognizing YOU are part of the problem ) - what's WRONG with you taking responsibility for your actions - What's WRONG with YOU putting in any effort - but ( not buying / using ) cleaning chemicals that conatin PFAS - like TIDE laundry detergent ... or ... dawn dish soap .. or ANY pot / pan made with a "nonstick surface"

[@imwithstupid00011]

People worldwide have been exposed to pfas, as it ssys .... teflon... nothing sticks!

[@PaliAha]

GREED. Capitalism recognizes greed in humans but to disregard ppl's health for $ is shameful.

[@cherylgibbons4574]

OMG we’ve lost our humanity. No wonder there is so much cancer and sickness!!!

[@thomaschase1719]

room temperature eggs if fried eggs slide out of a carbon steel pan nicely

[@LlyleHunter]

Imagine what’s in your food when you heat your pans.

[@MrRKWRIGHT]

Based on this, I'm sitting here staring at my water bill - wondering if I should pay it. What's the point, if the water supply is filled with PFAs? . I'd probably be better off investing in a whole lotta food grade buckets to catch the natural rainwater. .

[@jmcneil4891]

They are finding it in rainwater too.

[@MrRKWRIGHT]

@@jmcneil4891 Well, I guess that means we're all doomed.

[@RealMTBAddict]

@@MrRKWRIGHT pretty much. Humans will evolve...

[@amywalker7515]

There's contaminates in that too, including tiny plastic particles. Get a Berkey water filter. It takes out just about everything bad from your water.

[@MrRKWRIGHT]

@@RealMTBAddict Let's certainly hope so.

[@billdell3051]

I was in my local supermarket the other day in the UK And on the shelves are Roundup weed killer thought it was band years ago, Thanks Monsanto Make sure you buy PFAS Free pots and pans.

[@dedetudor.]

The government officials are on the soon to be scratched off everyone's list of trustworthy individuals. They never have been and they never will be.

[@ElenaGarcia-og5ml]

Look what happened in Flint Michigan

[@deborahtucker4900]

Do people really care? I do.. you do but I don't think most suburban communities care enough to advocate change in urban areas.

[@tsvandyke]

8:20 ... 1957 - Book -Silent Sprink - PFAS in leeching into texas farmland - contaminating 200 farms ... OK 1997 - "when it started to affect MY drinking water - i started to worry ." ( that is the problem with society - depending on other for info ... "I assumed my water was ok - living 8 miles downstream from a chemical plant - they never told us we were in danger" )

[@tsvandyke]

" Others are to blame for PFAS in 'my drinking water' " ... ROUND-UP ( weed killer ) is a pfas - How many times have you used this product around your house? ... but "others are to blame for PFAS leeching into my well water" ???

[@javiertorres9114]

This is why China has more environmental issues than anyone. Corporate industries left the US for China because less red tape. It’s all about profits less about the environment.

[@gusgus8134]

Thanks a bunch Dupont.🤢

[@asathora1819]

Someone needs to make a video about the changeover to plastic pipes vs. copper and iron. PFAs in drinking water.

[@kathb1683]

I’d be interested in knowing how the company plans to capture and clean the nearby waters and lands around this river!

[@deborahtucker4900]

People don't think about how much "CONVENIENCE" really costs. Think about all the chemicals in "cleaning" products. People don't think about the fact that these chemicals in up in our drinking water. People aren't thinking or paying attention. Welcome white America to water quality issues in Flint, Benton Harbor Michigan and most urban cities in the United States.

[@os2958]

😥

[@microbehunter7584]

white America?? We are made up of all races and we are all affected by corporate greed.

[@deborahtucker4900]

@@microbehunter7584 some are more effected than others based on color and class.

[@jeepsblackpowderandlights4305]

I suggest everyone even on tap water.. get 20 inch big blue filters in their houses... Start off with a sediment filters. Then get a KDF filter for heavy metals. Then get a GAC or activated carbon filter.. activated carbon filters do filter out PFAS from the water. On our 14 acres. I installed 4 filters. Sediment. Kdf, ABC carbon and then GAC carbon. I also installed a RODI filter under the sink

[@AndreaHernandez-hg7st]

The sad thing is that no one will ever be accountable for this and most people are so busy with life to even care. As the Cancer will eat up all of the masses all because of Greed.

[@meltx5371]

Good reporting

[@BBradshawProductions]

And the eggs sliding off those PFAS pans will pick up some PFAS. Humans are making the world inhospitable to humans.

[@sootuckchoong7077]

Nowadays, almost every shops and supermarkets sells these non-stick pots, though they write down it doesn't have PFAS. Scary.

[@misodinamosa]

Thank you CBS. At what point will people will just end it all.

[@lisaapthorp2729]

Bioremediation with Mycelium helps remove oil and other toxicities. It’s time the government granted funding to mycologists. The circle of life seems forgotten, people are very focused on the life part but forget to tend to the death end of the loop. Mushrooms are natures clean up crew and internet.

[@summertime9629]

This was & is heartbreaking. The old saying of - “for every rat you see there’s 10 you don’t “ - I’m afraid could definitely apply for this situation & this one type of contaminant , that the public now has been aware of ; but it begs the question |?| how many other chemicals are in everything & everywhere? Sadly in the past, in 🇺🇸 anyways, if you speak out or even question anything you’re quickly & easily branded a conspiracy theorist, even by family members. This really is such a difficult time in history, I know I’m not alone in feeling so alone. I do have to say though - I’m impressed that CBS Sunday morning did a story on this because mainstream media especially in the last 3 - 5 years is seemingly in bed with SO many of these big companies. I don’t know if CBS did that because of bravery or the now becoming extinct “journalistic integrity” or some other reason , which I hope is not nefarious. It’s hard to trust any supposed journalism/ “news” stations or reporters anymore.

[@brihodge6510]

I learned about this when I did my college Theseus about 20years ago. Wish someone in power would have stepped up.I don’t understand why it’s gone on so long 😢

[@jameshardin6848]

Thank you for covering this story!

[@donnaalexander1670]

This is like Dark Water. Or the PG&E poisoning. Where’s Erin Brockovich!! Right, Superman’s Not Coming. There’s too much money to be made.

[@jeanashchuchinov6593]

How scary is this

[@PunkMartyr]

I’ve come to understand that a lot of people are ok with making decisions that will likely cause the death of another person as long as 1. They personally benefit 2. It cant easily be tied back to them 3. They don’t have to watch the person die. By the way pretty much every person in government operates with this mentality along with most CEOs and board members.

[@dedetudor.]

And they're all invested in big pharma so they reap profits from sick people... Right? Yep!

[@zakwanberlin]

I feel like this PFAS issue isn’t getting the exposure it should.

[@PunkMartyr]

Why do we not have water catch systems on every roof? Its unlikely they are as prevalent in rainwater as they are in the water treatment or ground water systems. WHY IS THIS CRAP NOT BANNED?

[@kryptopcgamer589]

Acid rain

[@om-nj2hw]

It'll be a slow death, so it will be difficult to tie it to the pollution, and that's exactly how they want it.

[@godovereverything5478]

Why isn’t this stuff on all social media outlets??? This is what we need to be talking about and trying to fix…

[@user-sx6eu4rg2x]

Right?! Everybody is busy being divided over politics instead of coming together to force the government and corporations to do what’s right by everyone. All we can do is teach our friends and family and not give any of these companies more of our money.

[@alkante2962]

Arundel is a small town on the south coast of England. It is also a current old patronym in Normandy. And there is Arundel in Maine, where nice people are farming like people in Normandy still did three decades ago. Unfortunately they're going to lose their living because of the pfas that are found everywhere, on every continent, in every country.

[@bettydamnboop3030]

Wow that’s terrible considering they knew this years and years ago.

[@charliesmith_]

DuPont, I.G.Farben, and the US govt knew. 150 US companies knew. Since 1940.

[@ecotts]

Those company owners need to be imprisoned.

[@WaynerTheGamer]

Remember when Surgeon General claimed; cigarettes are healthy. Congress: sold 🇺🇸's out

[@jordanlarayne7067]

They use it in plumbing systems as well. Most piping for water systems has GIANT Teflon seals on it !

[@tsvandyke]

( 1957 ) book " Silent Spring" .. talks about his exact subject ! ( 2022 ) 8:27 ... Water Activist ... " I didn't care about it - until it affected the water my kids drink"

[@donaldcarey114]

"Silent Spring" was full of exaggerations and outright errors. The banning of DDT has killed hundreds of millions, mostly children, in the third world. How? Malaria.

[@tsvandyke]

@@donaldcarey114 "Silent Spring" - does NOT mention DDT at all - it refers to Agent Orange ( Round-up) being sprayed on Rail-road tracks - leeching into ground water - killing 10,000 people & 5,000 cattle in a 100 mile radius of where the weed killer was applied.

[@tsvandyke]

@@donaldcarey114 I'm talking about 5,000 CATTLE - that was poinsoned overnight & the ( 10,000 people in USA ) who eat "STEAK & hamburgers" - who also got infected & died from the contaminated meat.

[@tsvandyke]

@@donaldcarey114 Did the Misquitos get sick from the well water ? .. NO ! Malaria is spread by infected misquitos ... this video mentions ( chemicals leeching into in the ground water from factories UPSTREAM ) - why are you getting angry about a subject NOT mentioned in the video / or in any of the comments. ... " Contaminated water from well water " ( is the subject of the video )

[@tsvandyke]

@@donaldcarey114 I am referring to the incident the book talks about in 1952 ... you are talking about DDT being banned in third world countries in 1976 . ...

[@tradeo8899]

What DuPont products still have PFAs? How would we know if our nonstick pans have them?

[@edgarmezavids]

They do, all non stick have them.

[@xxxxMonkeyGirlxxxx]

Yup if you use non stick pans you’ve got PFAS in them. Switch to cast iron or ceramic.

[@dezafinado]

For cooking, ceramic is the new non-stick. They say it's safe but who knows what they'll find out 20 yrs from now. I've switched to using cast iron and stainless steel ~10 yrs ago. PFAS is in many things we use daily so at this point, most of us have PFAS as well as micro plastic in our bloodstream. I'll be non-stick and Saran wrapped when I die... yippie!!!

[@brendaann727]

@@dezafinado - Pyrex, glass, or ceramic is the best. Some people get heavy metals poisoning, though I think it could be due in part to mercury in their teeth. Sorry, but stainless steel comes off on your food! If you leave it long enough you can actually see the gray on your food.

[@Junkinsally]

All non stick pans have some form of it.

[@lissakaye610]

Impossible to escape, found everywhere, but have to shut down one farmer because of it. Let me guess… all family owned farms are gonna be first targets right?

[@micksroversmg558]

YOU are bang on Lissa all about closing down the small family outfit and big boys keep on doing there damage!

[@jeaninemorris6241]

The obvious is to SHUT DOWN ALL ALL ALL THOSE COMPANIES! omg just do it. Ya see it. Say it. Do it. next all those people, properties, & medical is the responsibility of those companies, Dupont, 3M & any other. Do not waste time in court. Own up to your greed. Do your diligence. Free your conscience. Wheres Erin Brockovich?

[@williameichner7177]

Yep there you go Better Living Through Chemistry.

[@MP-mw9ph]

isn’t it so funny they tell us everything is perfectly safe but really it never is?

[@dedetudor.]

💉💦...think about it😖💀😳

[@MP-mw9ph]

@@dedetudor. yeeep, hence why i refused that junk!!

[@PunkMartyr]

“I’m scared we’re going to die because of what we’ve ingested.” You will. I know so many people who have gotten cancer just living in “safe” areas forget about places like this.

[@margaretburnham5683]

How heartbreaking

[@Seekthetruth3000]

Better living through chemistry.

[@denisekaiser5662]

Geoengineering. Our greatest threat. Period

[@mtnwriter4011]

What is most stunning is that these companies only promise to address the problem AFTER getting caught. They're so greedy that had they not been caught, it would still be out of sight, out of mind. Why then are these company people (at DuPont and 3M) not being prosecuted? -- is my question. They had full knowledge of this. Is it "politics" and "money" as usual?

[@alexwells9948]

11:06 Ahead on Sunday Morning remembering guitarist Bill Pitman

[@Violet-du9bk]

Evil evil evil

[@kyleebrock]

The next time a Republican tells you the EPA isn't needed. Remind them of this.

[@ey67]

When was anything ever brought up t get the attention of a Republicon? They like demorats are bribed by corporate governance to look the other way. Got keep those stocks going up at any cost.

[@brendaann727]

That's ifffy. The EPA I think has sold us all down the river at this point.

[@bonniebradley429]

Those companies dumped into rivers.

[@angelshaven8920]

You should investigate and report on the soon to be released "cleaned" water dump from Fukushima into the Atlantic

[@chriso.8150]

My bf had a Teflon eye socket placed in his skull almost 25 years ago. Makes me wonder what sort of damage it is doing. Sad that such a ridiculous, unnecessary creation is destroying so much life. SMFH.

[@KoolT]

Probably less than drinking it

[@misaelramos83]

People need to stop saying: "This is America, we SHOULDN'T have X or Y problem." American exceptionalism has directly created the socio-polotical mechanisms that allow us to IGNORE issues like this and MANY others. Especially if X or Y issue only affects the poor or the brown or black. America IS NOT EXEMPT from the outcomes of gross industrial irresponsibility. Except for it's main parent nation, the UK, it basically invented taking a dump on the earth and her people in exchange for a quick buck.

[@ey67]

Absolutely true

[@charliesmith_]

Have a peek at DuPont (Delaware) and I.G.Farben (Germany) 'relationship' from 1940. Interesting who all's turned a blind eye since then. Truman onward.

[@comepoopatmyhouse]

I used to work as an environmental driller to sample areas for environmental site assessments and we would find these chemicals in Chicago all the time. Just assume you are drinking it at this point

[@luannmarie4568]

They have been spraying the sky for decades. So wow big surprise🙄