Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 15:55:40 +0000
Researchers in Japan say they have found a way to break down so-called forever chemicals at room temperature using visible light.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 15:13:47 +0000
British Columbia has sued the manufacturers of PFAS products for contaminating public drinking systems with “forever chemicals.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 17:15:25 +0000
Republicans in Wisconsin are showing the world just how far they are willing to go to protect corporate polluters. They are withholding $125 million designated for cleanup of widespread PFAS contamination in drinking water and have said they will only release the funds in exchange for immunity for polluters. The … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 16:00:42 +0000
The EPA has issued a new rule designed to address the presence of PFAS chemicals in America’s drinking water. Is it government overreach?
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Read moreCredit to Author: Press Release| Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 23:49:56 +0000
EPA action designates two widely used PFAS as hazardous substances under the Superfund law, improving transparency and accountability to clean up PFAS contamination in communities WASHINGTON — Today, April 19, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking another step in its efforts to protect people from the health risks … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 00:04:53 +0000
Today, the U.S. EPA released its 2022 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) National Analysis showing that environmental releases of TRI chemicals from facilities covered by the program were 21% lower in 2022 compared to 2013. This includes a 26% decrease in air releases. During this 10-year period, releases from manufacturing facilities … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2023 20:53:37 +0000
Sandia scientists achieve breakthrough in tackling PFAS contamination
Credit to Author: Maddie Bender| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 13:33:02 +0000
PFAS are in everything from clothing to non-stick pans, and can harm humans and animals in high enough concentrations. Now, scientists have found them in pet cats and dogs.
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Credit to Author: Leila Ettachfini| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 23:49:03 +0000
Increasing research shows that PFAS is inescapable, but the EPA still hasn’t regulated the chemical class.
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Credit to Author: Alex Zaragoza| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 20:45:38 +0000
Mark Ruffalo and director Todd Haynes talk to VICE about the very real, very frightening way one huge corporation has poisoned us all.
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