Brunswick airport’s toxic foam spill highlighted the need to transition to safer alternatives. A Brunswick legislator is ...

The payout would cover just a fraction of the cleanup costs the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority has accrued since ...

This article is the second in a series, A Fire Hose of ‘Forever Chemicals,’ which can be seen in entirety here. In a wooded ...

Barrels of firefighting foam were collected around New Hampshire and sent to Ohio. Last month, remnants of the foam returned ...

Results that took months to obtain show that fish in water near the Brunswick airport had high concentrations of toxic ...

Toxic, potentially cancer-causing firefighting foam, like what spilled in Brunswick last year, is still being used in some ...

That would be a significant change. Before treatment, the firefighting foam, known as Aqueous Film-Forming Foam or AFFF, was great at fighting tough fires, like those ignited by gasoline or jet fuel.

However, the biggest player when it comes to PFAS contamination is the military through its widespread use of aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF). This is a firefighting foam designed to quickly ...

Given the widespread contamination, persistence, and environmental impacts associated with the use of aqueous film forming foams (AFFF) containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), there is ...

Concern has since spread to PFAS in many other sources with a focus on aqueous film-forming foam used for decades by firefighters. The foam contains a relatively high percentage of PFAS that can ...

As the world phases out use of PFAS-based foams in firefighting for the safer but less effective fluorine-free foams (F3), a ...