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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Detailed Maps And Airborne Chemicals: How The PFAS Landscape Differs State-By-State
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:05:08
	Publish Date:		2020-03-26 06:46:00
	Description:		A month ago, in a ballroom at a hotel conference center in a Madison suburb, social distancing wasn’t even in the vocabulary of most people. The coronavirus wasn’t yet a threat to Wisconsin. Hundreds of people packed into a convention to talk about, and hear about, a different threat to health--PFAS. “It is the hot ticket issue right now,” conceded Bridget Kelly, the Wisconsin DNR’s Program Coordinator for Emerging Contaminants. The topic is only growing hotter. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a group of manmade chemicals found in drinking water across the country, including in Rhinelander . They’re linked to health risks like thyroid disease, high cholesterol, and even cancer. Chris Lilek, an Environmental Health Specialist with the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, is also a hydrogeologist. She helped organize the crowded conference put on by the American Institute of Professional Geologists . “I’m very proud of them for them to take the time to be interested,”
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