The collaboration and documentary
This AL.com story is part of an investigative collaboration with The Associated Press, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, FRONTLINE (PBS) and The Post and Courier that includes the upcoming FRONTLINE documentary "Contaminated: The Carpet Industry’s Toxic Legacy." It is supported through AP’s Local Investigative Reporting Program and FRONTLINE’s Local Journalism Initiative, which is funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Contributing reporting to Forever Stained were Margaret Kates of AL.com; Dylan Jackson and Justin Price of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution; Jason Dearen, Michael Phillis and Helen Wieffering of The Associated Press; and Dana Miller Ervin, Kate McCormick and Jala Everett of FRONTLINE (PBS). The MuckRock Sunlight Research Desk‘s Audrey Nielsen, Michael Nolan and Seraphina Harris-Feron provided research.
This story was fact-checked by Nina Sparling, a PhD student studying 20th century U.S. history at the University of Pennsylvania.
Watch the documentary “Contaminated: The Carpet Industry’s Toxic Legacy” at pbs.org/frontline and in the PBS App and on FRONTLINE’s YouTube channel. It is also available on the PBS Documentaries Prime Video Channel.
Read more from the full Forever Stained collaborative investigation.
