Filters in water pitchers or under-sink systems capture dangerous chemicals, only for them to be returned to the environment.
Farmers across Washington already spread thousands of tons of fertilizer from human waste on their crops each year, but there ...
To test how well it might eat these chemicals, the researchers sealed populations of F11 into flasks where the only carbon source came from PFAS, at a concentration of 10,000 micrograms per liter.
Recent EPA regulations on PFAS, commonly known as “forever chemicals,” seek to tackle a trillion-dollar problem.
“The bond between carbon and fluorine atoms in PFAS is very strong, so most microbes cannot use it as an energy source,” ...
The EPA has stated that no level of PFAS is safe in drinking water. A common source of PFAS contamination was aqueous film-forming foam used by military firefighters at U.S. and Japanese bases in ...
Tony Evers' budget proposal will also include millions of dollars to address contamination and supply bottled water.