New research has highlighted the link between forever chemicals in our drinking water and several thousand cancer diagnoses.

In the case of Holloman Lake, the chemicals were believed to have originated from firefighting foam used at Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo from the 1970s until 2016, when the Air Force ceased ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had announced the proposal last year and sent it to the White House for review, ...

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For decades, the biosolids industry has recycled human and industrial waste into organic fertilizer for large-scale agricultural applications. But concerns are mounting as evidence grows that these ...

Proposed legislation on chemical contamination does not consider what might be exorbitant future costs for treatment and ...

Though it’s been 45-years since Woburn shut down two wells due to suspected contamination that became infamous during the ...

Dangerous per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, are known as ‘forever chemicals’ due to their strong carbon-fluoride ...

A group of lawmakers are fighting to extend the statute of limitations for civil action related to PFAS from six years to 20 ...

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President Donald Trump's administration is working to undo a regulatory crackdown by his predecessor on PFAS pollution.

The manmade chemicals, which are tied to a host of health ailments, have contaminated sources of drinking water across ...