FREE – Thu. Oct. 24, 7pm at WKAR | Join the conversation as WKAR and DPTV present a free screening of the Great Lakes Now documentary The Forever Chemicals. | RESERVE SEATS HERE
The film takes a close look at PFAS, which is the curious acronym that stands for a family of chemicals that’s in most homes and being detected in an increasing number of people’s water systems in Michigan and other states and provinces. Research is only beginning to determine the health effects and what, if any, treatment there might be. What can people do to protect themselves and their families? And at what cost?
After the film, Great Lakes Now Program Director Sandra Svoboda will moderate a panel of experts looking at the health, environmental and political issues surrounding PFAS contamination. Confirmed panelists are:
- Sandy Wynn-Stelt, a resident of Belmont, Mich., who has one of the highest ever-detected levels of PFAS in her well water and is now an advocate for water quality.
- Liesl Clark, the director of Michigan’s Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy.
- Sue Allor, elected to the Michigan House of Representativesand chair of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Natural Resources and Environmental Quality.
- Courtney Carignan, an assistant professor of food science and human nutrition, pharmacology and toxicology at Michigan State University who investigates how exposure to mixtures of ingredients and contaminants in consumer products, drinking water and food affects people’s health.
- Paula Gardner, MLive Media Group’s environmental news and policy reporter who has covered PFAS issues.
FREE WITH RESERVATION
This event is free, but registration is required. | RESERVE SEATS HERE
WHERE
Communication Arts & Sciences Building, WKAR TV Studios, 404 Wilson Road, on the campus of Michigan State University.
PARKING
Parking is free after 6 p.m. in the adjacent Trowbridge Road parking ramp.
Parking address: 1149 Red Cedar Road, East Lansing, MI 48824
WATCH LIVE
Stream The Forever Chemicals screening and conversation HERE.