From Live Science:
“Forever chemicals” — technically known as perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) — are remarkably useful things. They’re also among the most dangerous pollutants on the planet, says investigative journalist Mariah Blake.
Blake’s book chronicles a decades-long cover-up that hid the chemicals’ links to cancer and birth defects, and the fight to expose the contamination by the people of Hoosick Falls — a village in New York State whose water was polluted by PFAS runoff. Her work has been shortlisted for multiple prizes, including the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, an annual award for excellence in nonfiction in the physical or biological sciences.