“Researchers have found PFAS everywhere they’ve thought to look: the umbilical cords of newborns in Taiwan, the breastmilk of ...
The Environmental Protection Agency set limits on drinking water for forever chemicals, the first-ever national legally ...
PFAS may be impossible to avoid, but you can reduce the amount you inhale or ingest through regular vacuuming, cooking, and a ...
The state has so far found PFAS-contaminated drinking water supplies in 51 wells near former landfills, but no one will say ...
Long-lived compounds emitted by industry reach the oceans and are then ferried by bubbles into the atmosphere.
Although there are thousands of forever chemicals, the new regulation targets six of the most pervasive compounds.
The agency estimates that its new rules will prevent tens of thousands of serious illnesses, especially cancers.
New Yorkers rely on drinking-water systems that contain unsafe levels of “forever chemicals,” also known as PFAS.
The law required licensed landfills to test collected drainage water, or leachate, for the presence of forever chemicals. As rainwater seeps through a landfill, it is contaminated by the waste.
That's bad news since PFAS last for decades without breaking down, earning them the "forever chemicals" nickname. Researchers have found them in drinking water, household dust, rainwater and soil ...
Forever chemicals are the 'health scandal of the century’ on the same level as asbestos, say French politicians.