The city said the chemical manufacturers sold and distributed PFAS-containing firefighting foam to the U.S. Navy and Air ...

to develop a foam called AFFF that can extinguish high-temperature fires. The PFAS acts as a surfactant, helping the material spread more quickly. By the 1970s, every military base, Navy ship ...

especially near military installations that had used PFAS-laced firefighting foam known as aqueous film-forming foam. The foam was used in training Air Force firefighters to put out aircraft fires ...

Efforts to get harmful “forever chemicals” out of firefighting foam used in Oregon are closer to being realized.

WASHINGTON — The cost to clean up "forever chemicals" around the nation's military bases is skyrocketing. P er- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAs, is in firefighting foam used by the ...

PFAS contamination in areas near military bases in the United States largely occurs because firefighting foam, which contains the compound, was used at the bases as it can swiftly bring fires ...

They’re called “forever chemicals” but the program destroying PFAS ... the foam, known as AFFF or “A3F”, and created a program to collect it from hundreds of fire stations and military ...

Some of the foam tested by UNH researchers had anywhere from seven to 70 times as much the “forever chemical” PFAS in it compared to the water just below it, said Paula Mouser, professor of ...

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection are starting a program to collect PFAS containing firefighting foam from Wisconsin fire ...

Legislation before Congress this year would cover the cost to remove and relocate drinking water wells contaminated with forever chemicals on the Eastern Shore. The town of Chincoteague discovered in ...

THE CONCERN IS THAT PFAS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS. FOR THE LAST DECADE, SHE HAS PUSHED FOR MORE TESTING, AND IT WAS HER ADVOCACY THAT TIPPED OFF UNH TO SOME UNUSUAL FOAM IN ...