Last week, environmental groups decried plans from the Environmental Protection Agency to rescind and “reconsider” drinking water limits for four per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS ...

A Q&A with Andrew Shapero, Nantucket's new forever-chemical expert, on the extent of the problem on the island, and how ...

More than 1,000 drinking water systems have detected PFAS above limits the EPA set in April, according to USA TODAY’s analysis. Almost 400 of these water systems ...

The EPA estimated that between 6 percent and 10 percent of the 66,000 public drinking water systems in the U.S. would find PFAS once they started testing, and it gave utilities five years to ...

Water expert warns that tap and bottled water contain harmful chemicals, with 200 million Americans drinking ...

Small communities and schools that operate on-site water systems, which in Pennsylvania have detected high levels of “forever chemicals,” are also eligible. States may also use the funding to address ...

There’s something scary in the water at Cape Fear. For years, chemicals giant DuPont and the company Chemours, which it spun off in 2015, manufactured long-lasting synthetic chemicals—known as ...

The drinking water rules were adopted as part of the Biden administration’s efforts to limit public exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), hazardous chemicals linked to a range ...

Across the country the Environmental Protection Agency estimates there are thousands of water systems, serving around 100 million people, that have harmful levels of PFAS in their drinking water.

The EPA estimated that between 6 percent and 10 percent of the 66,000 public drinking water systems in the U.S. would find PFAS once they started testing, and it gave utilities five years to ...

More than 1,000 drinking water systems have detected PFAS above limits the EPA set in April, according to USA TODAY’s analysis. Almost 400 of these water systems ...

Thousands of public drinking water systems began sampling last year for PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, in the Environmental Protection Agency’s largest-ever effort to monitor ...