{"id":82021,"date":"2026-04-08T08:13:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82021"},"modified":"2026-04-08T08:13:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:13:46","slug":"they-are-literally-everywhere-the-shocking-story-of-how-forever-chemicals-polluted-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/they-are-literally-everywhere-the-shocking-story-of-how-forever-chemicals-polluted-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;They Are Literally Everywhere&#8217;: The Shocking Story Of How Forever Chemicals Polluted The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Live Science:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Forever chemicals&#8221; \u2014 technically known as perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) \u2014 are remarkably useful things. They&#8217;re also among the most\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/chemistry\/what-is-the-worlds-most-dangerous-chemical\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/chemistry\/what-is-the-worlds-most-dangerous-chemical\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/chemistry\/what-is-the-worlds-most-dangerous-chemical\" data-hawk-tracked=\"hawklinks\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/chemistry\/what-is-the-worlds-most-dangerous-chemical\"><u>dangerous pollutants on the planet<\/u><\/a>, says investigative journalist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mariahblake.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.mariahblake.com\/\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-hawk-tracked=\"hawklinks\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.mariahblake.com\/\"><u>Mariah Blake<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Blake&#8217;s book chronicles a decades-long cover-up that hid the chemicals&#8217; links to cancer and birth defects, and the fight to expose the contamination by the people of Hoosick Falls \u2014 a village in New York State whose\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wxxinews.org\/new-york-public-news-network\/2025-07-11\/chemical-giant-dupont-settles-hoosick-falls-contamination-suit-for-27-million\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.wxxinews.org\/new-york-public-news-network\/2025-07-11\/chemical-giant-dupont-settles-hoosick-falls-contamination-suit-for-27-million\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-hawk-tracked=\"hawklinks\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.wxxinews.org\/new-york-public-news-network\/2025-07-11\/chemical-giant-dupont-settles-hoosick-falls-contamination-suit-for-27-million\"><u>water was polluted by PFAS runoff.<\/u><\/a>\u00a0Her work has been shortlisted for multiple prizes, including the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pen.org\/literary-awards\/pen-eo-wilson-prize-literary-science-writing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" data-url=\"https:\/\/pen.org\/literary-awards\/pen-eo-wilson-prize-literary-science-writing\/\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-hawk-tracked=\"hawklinks\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/pen.org\/literary-awards\/pen-eo-wilson-prize-literary-science-writing\/\"><u>PEN\/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award<\/u><\/a>, an annual award for excellence in nonfiction in the physical or biological sciences.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1775636026\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"&#8216;They Are Literally Everywhere&#8217;: The Shocking Story Of How Forever Chemicals Polluted The World\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Live Science: &#8220;Forever chemicals&#8221; \u2014 technically known as perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) \u2014 are remarkably useful things. They&#8217;re.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82022,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82021\/revisions\/82022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}