He explains just why that staying power is so very troubling: "A lot of chemicals, when they go into your body or they end up in the environment, they break down. They slowly decompose.

The short answer is that PFAS are harmful to human health and the environment. Once people are exposed to PFAS, the chemicals remain in their bodies for a long time – months to years ...

Evans is a scientist with the Environmental Working Group, an activist group that is pushing for policy changes to mitigate PFAS pollution. Recent studies show the chemicals have been integrated ...

In the spring, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized the nation’s first drinking water standard for PFAS, limiting six specific PFAS chemicals from a class of thousands. The agency acted ...

PFAS, a broad classification for thousands of chemicals, have been called "forever chemicals" because they do not break down in the environment, where they sicken wildlife and farm animals ...

Researchers say the findings underline the need for better monitoring of a wider range of PFAS chemicals in the environment. The unexpected discovery of a soon-to-be banned "forever chemical" in ...

to put it into perspective — that amount of PFAS, if released into the environment and consumed, is enough to put every person in Kandiyohi County in the EPA’s highest health risk category ...

Regulations on PFAS chemicals in drinking water tightened and scrutiny on the company that emitted PFAS into Merrimack’s environment – Saint-Gobain – increased. In 2023, the company announced they ...

a senior environmental specialist, said Iowa DNR will not have a state regulation on the books until next fall, which would leave little time for the state to complete its initial PFAS monitoring ...

Researchers used a lab technique that mimics what happens to PFAS chemicals naturally in the environment but at a much faster rate. They discovered branched PFOA was produced during that process.