The Georgia carpet industry’s long use of PFAS, known as forever chemicals, polluted drinking water and the environment across swaths of the South.
A South Carolina riverkeeper traced PFAS, or forever chemicals, to a specific carpet plant on the Lower Saluda River in Irmo.
PFAS chemicals once used in manufacturing popular stain-resistant carpets have contaminated the environment and water in parts of Georgia and Alabama. A new documentary investigates how it happened — ...