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A water conversion project broke ground in Hales Corners on Friday. The project aims to address PFAS issues for more than 100 households. The village said the $6.5 million project is expected to be ...
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The Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday that it plans to weaken limits on some "forever chemicals" in drinking water that were finalized last year, while maintaining standards for two ...
A group of potentially toxic “forever chemicals,” mostly coming from prescribed drugs, may be contaminating drinking water for millions of Americans, as wastewater treatment plants fail to remove them ...
Found in everything from food and water to the air we breathe, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), or “forever chemicals,” are difficult to avoid. An analysis conducted by the Centers for ...
The petite French chief executive of waste processing giant Veolia walked between the towering silos and 60-foot rotary kiln of her company’s Port Arthur facility, tailed by an army of visitors ...
PFAS, or "forever chemicals," were first detected in Ann Arbor's drinking water in 2014. Two years later, the city performed a follow-up investigation and detected PFAS in the Huron River. The river ...
New research shows that certain bacteria in the microbiome soak up "forever chemicals," or PFAS. The findings raise the possibility that probiotics could help remove some PFAS from our bodies. PFAS, ...
Some of these long-lasting, pervasive chemicals are known to carry serious health risks. Research is still underway on the health effects of other kinds of PFAS. Water systems that filter out PFAS are ...
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Call it cleaning house. Entrepreneurs are getting creative while eliminating the insidious and omnipresent toxic chemicals known as PFAS. The so-called forever chemicals, which are so difficult to ...