If you own property in the West Plains area, Spokane County Commissioner Al French is asking you to join in on a request to ...
Forever chemicals are in the household items we use daily, from cookware dental floss to umbrellas. To minimize exposure, we ...
More than 40 million Americans get their drinking water not from the public supply but from private sources, and nearly all of them rely on groundwater that could contain a hidden threat: A class ...
Speaking at the Environmental Council of the States’ fall meeting Wednesday, Villa said that technologies are available “right now” to dispose of PFOA and PFOS, two versions of PFAS that EPA ...
Commonly known as "forever chemicals" because they can take 1,000 years to break down, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a group of synthetic chemicals that are widely used in ...
Wondering what PFAS are and what "forever chemical" pollution means for private wells? Here's what to know about testing, ...
the most recent collections cited in the USGS Tap Water Survey, tested positive for at least one PFAS compound – including in Midwestern states such as Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Iowa.
In December, Maryland environmental officials began testing drinking water in a set of schools and daycare centers served by wells for harmful PFAS compounds. So far, out of 200 schools and ...
Dutch drinking water firms have written to German environment minister Steffi Lemke urging her to “set boundaries” for the discharge of toxic PFAS chemicals into the river Rhine. The Rhine is an ...
According to the Air Force base, about 7,000 gallons of water containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) were dumped into a lined retention pond on the base between July 9 and July 15.
CANNON AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. — The U.S. Department of the Air Force is investigating the reported release of around 7,000 gallons of water containing PFAS. PFAS are perfluoroalkyl and ...