This article explores the current understanding of PFAS exposure through drinking water, the methods used to monitor these ...

Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) announced the availability of its final State of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl ...

PFAS have a unique chemical structure, as Elsie M. Sunderland, an environmental chemist at Harvard who’s been studying PFAS for roughly a decade, explained to Vox. “An organic molecule has ...

Figure 1. Examples of the structures of alkyl, perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. Credit: Technology Networks. The presence of fluorine is crucial because C-F bonds are among the strongest ...

In Johnson County last year, a local investigator and a lab found high levels of PFAS on a ranch thereafter cattle and fish .

Mount Everest looks like a garbage dump. And the Arctic Ocean is full of "forever chemicals" known as PFAS. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances—PFAS—are a group of thousands of synthetic ...

More PFAS news with Illinois looking to pass more legislation protecting firefighters from astronomical cancer rates, and ...

UW professor and Associate Dean for Education and Faculty Affairs at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies Steph Tai said PFAS are a class of man-made chemicals containing fluorine and other ...

Most of the fees are tied to four settlements involving perfluoralkyl and polyfluoralkyl substances, or PFAS, a “forever chemical” that has spawned lawsuits and regulatory challenges in all ...

The suit has been consolidated with one brought by chemical and manufacturing trade groups and one of the largest makers of PFAS, which also seeks to rescind the EPA’s strict limits.

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are known as forever chemicals ... the study identifies 83 applications that currently lack forever-chemical alternatives, especially in industrial ...