Author: Sharon Lerner
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Sharon Lerner is a reporter at ProPublica covering health, science and the environment. She often reports on the Environmental Protection Agency, charting its handling of pesticides, plastic-based fuels and other chemicals. She has reported on EPA whistleblowers who were pressured to downplay the harms posed by new chemicals, as well as on plastic, greenwashing and biosafety. Sharon has written extensively about PFAS, a family of industrial pollutants linked to cancer, infertility, developmental harm and immune dysfunction. Her reporting has focused on corporate irresponsibility and on the knowledge that PFAS manufacturers 3M and DuPont had of the chemicals’ harms.
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