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Join us for our webinar, “Breaking Down Forever Chemicals,” featuring Dr. Alissa Cordner and Megan Liu

Join us for our webinar, “Breaking Down Forever Chemicals,” featuring Dr. Alissa Cordner and Megan Liu

Join us for our webinar, “Breaking Down Forever Chemicals,” featuring Dr. Alissa Cordner and Megan Liu. Perfluorinated chemicals (PFAS) are synthetic chemicals used in a wide variety of consumer products, and they are found virtually everywhere: in your house, in the river, in raindrops in Tibet and Antarctica, and even in your bloodstream. They’re called forever chemicals because they don’t break down, but it’s time for us to break up with them. 

Join us to learn about these forever chemicals, how they impact us, and what we can do about it.

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Dr. Alissa Cordner is the Co-director of the PFAS Project Lab and an Associate Professor at Whitman College. She has conducted extensive research on the regulation, science, and activism related to industrial chemicals. Her award-winning 2016 book, Toxic Safety: Flame Retardants, Chemical Controversies, and Environmental Health, examines how environmental health risks are defined and contested, in the face of unavoidable scientific uncertainty and competing, powerful stakeholders. 

Megan Liu is the Science and Policy Manager for Toxic-Free Future (TFF) where she manages their numerous science projects and policy initiatives. Prior to joining TFF, she worked at the Center for Environmental Health where she researched toxic chemicals in consumer products and air emissions.

  • WHAT: “Breaking Down Forever Chemicals,” featuring Dr. Alissa Cordner and Megan Liu.
  • WHEN: October 26, 2022, from 12 - 1:00 p.m.
  • WHERE: Zoom! RSVP and we will email you a link for the webinar. Can’t make it? We’ve got you covered. RSVP and we’ll email you a recording after the webinar airs. 
  • COST: Free! Please invite anyone you know who cares about the Columbia River and environmental justice.
  • SPEAKERS: Dr. Alissa Cordner, the Co-director of the PFAS Project Lab and an Associate Professor at Whitman College and Megan Liu, the Science and Policy Manager for Toxic-Free Future (TFF).

 

This webinar has been funded wholly or in part by the United States Environmental Protection Agency under assistance agreement RB 01J73501 to Columbia Riverkeeper. The contents of this webinar do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the Environmental Protection Agency