Public Trust
In this award-winning podcast series produced by Midwest Environmental Advocates and Wisconsin Sea Grant, we visit Wisconsin communities impacted by PFAS contamination to understand how they’ve been affected and what they’re doing to secure their rights to clean water.
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Episodes
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David and Goliath
Episode 14 For the final episode of Public Trust, we head to the communities of Peshtigo and Marinette in northeast Wisconsin, where we meet local residents who have been engaged in a yearslong battle with a multinational company that polluted their drinking water with PFAS. We learn how community members have come together to fight…
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Testing the Waters
Episode 13 Are PFAS in maple sap, wild rice, fish and other harvestable goods important to the Anishinaabe way of life? These are some of the questions the Voigt Intertribal Task Force asked Gavin Dehnert, Wisconsin Sea Grant’s emerging contaminants scientist, after PFAS were found in wolves. These questions became the central foundation of a…
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Fighting Fires
Episode 12 In this episode, we return to French Island, a community near La Crosse in Western Wisconsin, to learn more about how local drinking water became contaminated with PFAS. For decades, firefighting foams made from PFAS were used at the local airport for routine training and to deal with emergency situations like plane crashes.…
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Tapped Out
What happens when an entire Wisconsin community can no longer use their tap water? In this episode, we travel to the small town of Campbell on French Island to find out. French Island resident and local official Lee Donahue gives us a tour of the neighborhood. She explains how the community’s drinking water was contaminated…