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A water contamination scandal has gripped a leafy corner of southern Belgium, causing anxious residents to queue up for blood ...
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has published a July 2025 report entitled Update on Critical Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl ...
Getting rid of the “forever chemical” Trifluoroacetic acid, or TFA, found in everything from drinking water to human blood, ...
When Lawrence and Penny Higgins of Fairfield, Maine, first learned in 2020 that high levels of toxic chemicals called PFAS taint their home’s well water, they wondered how their health ...
“Tens of millions of people across the country are currently at risk of drinking hazardous levels of toxic PFAS-contaminated water, and that risk may only increase for many years to come if the EPA ...
University of Utah researchers have developed a material that addresses an urgent environmental challenge: the real-time ...
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Treating drinking water to tackle multiple pollutants could prevent more than 50,000 cancer cases in the U.S., a new study found.
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What Are Forever Chemicals?

There's a new class of chemical that has been gaining notoriety lately known as forever chemicals, but what are they and why such an ominous name?
Testing revealed that biosolids, or treated sewage sludge commonly used as fertilizer, are a major source of PFAS pollution in the Spokane River watershed.
Nantucket has a PFAS problem in the drinking water. It’s his job to solve it. Andrew Shapero, Nantucket’s new environmental contamination administrator, has his work cut out for him.
Millions of people in Pennsylvania may be drinking water contaminated with forever chemicals.