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How To Poison a Planet

Reporter Carrie Fellner teams up with iKandy Films for the Stan documentary How to Poison a Planet, examining decades of deception around toxic “forever chemicals” and how they infiltrate our lives. The documentary is streaming on Stan.

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The crucial document.
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The disappearing words exposing 3M’s decades of deception over cancer link

The explosive document delivered a “holy shit” moment to lawyers fighting the Wall Street giant, showing the company had known for decades about the dangers of its forever chemicals.

  • by Carrie Fellner
Mark Ruffalo will feature in a new Stan documentary exposing how 3M’s “forever chemicals” have sparked a worldwide contamination catastrophe.

Mark Ruffalo on the ‘evil’ company that poisoned every person on the planet – then kept it secret

The Hollywood actor will feature in a new Stan documentary exposing how 3M’s “forever chemicals” have sparked a worldwide contamination catastrophe.

  • by Michael Idato
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As kids they splashed in the bubbles. Then these sisters got the same one-in-a-million tumour

There are burning questions about the health effects of the “forever chemicals” that are in us all.

  • by Carrie Fellner
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3M’s global headquarters in Maplewood, Minnesota.

Parliamentary inquiry called into dangers of ‘forever chemicals’

For years, cancer-linked substances have contaminated Australian homes, products and drinking water. Now a new inquiry is promising answers.

  • by Carrie Fellner
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‘None of us had a choice in this’: How these man-made chemicals will affect us for generations

A new Stan documentary explores the impact toxic man-made chemicals are having on all of us.

  • by Michael Idato
Amara Strande speaking at Tartan High School’s Relay For Life cancer fundraiser in 2018, a year after she was diagnosed with liver cancer.
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Australian drinking water now allows a carcinogen at 140 times the US rate

Twenty-year-old Amara Strande’s deathbed crusade pushed the US to slash the levels of cancer-linked forever chemicals considered safe in drinking water.

  • by Carrie Fellner
Investigative reporter Carrie Fellner has pursued the story of forever chemicals or PFAS for nearly a decade.

Why Carrie Fellner spent nearly a decade chasing the story of ‘forever chemicals’

From Williamtown, to Minnesota in the US and Wreck Bay on the NSW South Coast, Fellner has tracked the toxic trail of destruction left by a corporate giant.

3M Global Headquarters in Maplewood, Minnesota.
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New consumer laws needed to protect us from forever chemicals

The federal government must address the hole in the consumer law and make it illegal to sell unsafe products.

  • by The Herald's View
Dr Kerry Chant and NSW Health Minister Ryan Park at Ryde Hospital on Tuesday.

Only one Sydney site monitored for cancer-causing chemicals in drinking water

The premier, health minister and chief medico are all at pains to stress the safety of our water supply as authorities are monitoring just one site for carcinogenic contaminants.

  • by Kate Aubusson and Carrie Fellner
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Does your bottled water contain cancer-causing forever chemicals?

The industry is moving to reassure Australian consumers, who are among the most enthusiastic drinkers of bottled water in the world.

  • by Carrie Fellner
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‘There’s no safe level’: Carcinogens found in tap water across Australia

The drinking water of up to 1.8 million Australians has been contaminated. Experts say further testing must be an urgent priority.

  • by Carrie Fellner

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