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

2018), the FAA was given three years to develop and approve a new type of fire fighting foam that does not contain PFAS chemicals. While that goal was not met, by 2024 the FAA had approved an ...

Before treatment, the firefighting foam, known as Aqueous Film-Forming Foam or AFFF, was great at fighting ... of our fire departments about liability,” he said. Destroying the PFAS in that ...

that looks for traces of PFAS in items ranging from industrial ... Much of the initial work involves fire-fighting foam from fire departments, including huge stockpiles of the material at airports.

Firefighters are already exposed to many risks to their well-being. The gear they wear and tools they use to keep themselves ...

A University of Maine researcher had a lightbulb moment while watching news about wildfires raging through California in 2019. James Anderson saw clips of planes dumping out water to quench the flames ...

“Vorbeck’s role is to develop new chemistries and new formulations to come up with a fluorine-free, PFAS free ... s exacting requirements for fire-fighting, as Mr. Schaffner notes: “It ...

But there's a stoush over who should pay for the clean-up: Sydney Airport or Airservices Australia which used PFAS-containing foams in its fire fighting operations at the airport up until 2010.

Fire stations are also among some of the most PFAS-contaminated hotspots. At the Angus firefighting foam plant and training centre in Bentham, North Yorkshire, PFAS from firefighting foams have ...

The ecological study determined that per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from drinking water through examination of the associations between PFAS in drinking water measured in two waves ...

paint -- and famously fire-fighting foam. MSD has a section of their website dedicated to PFAS in the St. Louis area. Officials say they do not use PFAS in wastewater treatment, but because they ...