{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"TT073 \u2013 Behind the Scenes of Water and Environment Reporting","description":"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 \u2018forever chemicals\u2019 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. ","author_name":"Tap Talk","author_url":"http:\/\/www.drinkingwaterpodcast.org","html":"<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>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/40790665"}