1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 Tap Talk Season 7 is here! Today, we bring you a conversation with Michael Phillis, a water &amp;amp; environment reporter for the Associated Press. Michael tells Jennifer &amp;amp; Steve about how he got into environmental reporting, the importance and range of stories about water, and the experience of reporting the recent long-form investigation &quot;A crisis emerges across the US as ‘forever chemicals’ quietly contaminate drinking water wells&quot; with his colleague Helen Wieffering. This story centers the well contamination crisis in Stella, Wisconsin, a town of ~600 people in northern Wisconsin, where some well water tests have found PFAS concentration levels of 375 times the federal limit for drinking water connected to a nearby paper mill. Visit drinkingwaterpodcast.org to learn more and find the full show notes for this episode. Tap Talk http://www.drinkingwaterpodcast.org <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/40790665/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/item/40790665