Chloe Johnson, Star Tribune
Chloe Johnson covers climate and other environmental issues for the Star Tribune and the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk, a consortium of 10 news organizations. She is a corps member with Report for America, a national service program that places journalists into local newsrooms.
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Decades’ worth of toxic "forever chemicals" are sitting in landfills, presenting a new contaminant for waste handlers who didn’t create the pollution, but now find themselves awash in it. A few companies are trying to filter PFAS out of their leachate, and researchers are studying whether it might escape from trash into the air.
