3M offers $10.3B settlement over PFAS contamination in water systems – now, how do you destroy a 'forever chemical'?

PFAS can be filtered, but getting rid of the chemicals is a monumental challenge. A biochemist and soil scientist explain.

Hui Li, Professor of Environmental and Soil Chemistry, Michigan State University • conversation
June 23, 2023 • ~8 min

Medical errors keep killing patients – but there are laws, incentives and mindset changes that could reduce the death toll

Mistakes at the hands of health care providers are the third-leading cause of death in the U.S. And many of the blunders are a byproduct of the system.

Michael J. Saks, Regents Professor, Arizona State University • conversation
Oct. 12, 2021 • ~9 min

BP paid a steep price for the Gulf oil spill but for the US a decade later, it's business as usual

The Deepwater Horizon disaster set new records for holding polluters to account. But it had much less impact on laws regulating offshore drilling or US oil dependence.

David M. Uhlmann, Jeffrey F. Liss Professor from Practice and Director, Environmental Law and Policy Program, University of Michigan • conversation
April 23, 2020 • ~8 min

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