The public, legislators, and media often group per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known as PFAS or "forever chemicals," ...

A new study published in Nature Microbiology has reported a naturally occurring family of bacterial species in the human gut ...

"We found that certain species of human gut bacteria have a remarkably high capacity to soak up PFAS from their environment ...

Indeed, while PFAS are everywhere in the world today, it is possible that our gut bacteria could be boosted to reduce the risks of the forever chemicals that have already entered our gastrointestinal ...

Microplastics and PFAS: Combined risk and greater environmental harm. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 10 / 241022115545.htm.

Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ are increasingly showing up in the environment, our food and drinking water, ... F11 isn’t a silver bullet for the major environmental issue of PFAS.

FILE – Eva Stebel, water researcher, pours a water sample into a smaller glass container for experimentation as part of drinking water and PFAS research at the U.S. Environmental Protection ...

Legislative momentum against PFAS has surged this year, as at least 11 states enacted laws to restrict the use of “forever chemicals” in everyday consumer products or professional firefighting ...

The Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday that it is delaying the timeline for water utilities to comply with reducing some per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS chemicals, in ...

Despite their utility, PFAS have raised health and environmental concerns. Due to their widespread use and persistence, PFAS accumulate in the environment and in human and animal tissues.

Richard Spiese, a hazardous site manager with the Department of Environmental Conservation, said that Bennington has the most severe PFAS contamination problem in Vermont due to this groundwater ...

Once the PFAS has been leached out in the landfill, it has the potential to enter and travel in the environment by conventional means, i.e., through a leachate discharge from the landfill which ...