NJ firefighters among 20,000 with cancer suing makers of foam chemicals
Retired Port Authority Officer Charles O'Neill joined a lawsuit against PFAS manufactures following his cancer diagnosis.
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Firefighting chemicals leave brain cancer-linked mutations, study shows
Firefighters show higher rates of glioma-linked SBS42 mutational signatures associated with haloalkane exposure, suggesting ...
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'That’s what’s killing us' | Cancer now the leading cause of death for Indiana firefighters
prostate cancer, colon cancer and leukemia are just some of the cancers that firefighters are facing at increased rates, according to the Firefighter Cancer Support Network. To stream 13 WTHR on your ...
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How the Camp Lejeune Justice Act Can Help Veterans Impacted by Toxic Exposure
Furthermore, since 1966, military firefighters and trainees have used the fire suppressant Aqueous ... including liver cancer, renal toxicity, prostate cancer, leukemia, female infertility ...
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Get toxic firefighting foam out of Maine, lawmakers told
Residents of Brunswick Landing, the site of Maine's worst toxic firefighting ... cancer. Exposure during critical life stages, such as in early childhood, can also cause life-changing harm. The ...
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Bills to find and destroy Maine’s toxic firefighting foam win over legislative committee
The Environment and Natural Resources Committee unanimously endorsed bills to catalog, collect and dispose of Maine's stockpike of toxic firefighting foam. Spurred on by last year’s Brunswick ...
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Oregon Senate votes to ban toxic ‘forever chemicals’ in firefighting foam
SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Efforts to get harmful “forever chemicals” out of firefighting foam used in Oregon are closer to being realized. The state Senate voted nearly unanimously Tuesday to ...