Health experts have only recently begun to explore the harmful — and potentially carcinogenic — properties of PFAS.
A University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign study is the first to describe an electrochemical strategy to capture, concentrate ...
A couple of months ago, our blog published an article on the exploding ubiquity of Trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) in the environment. TFA is a ...
Your support makes all the difference. Scientists discovered PFAS (perfluoroalkyl substances), chemicals that do not break down in nature, in more than 99 per cent of bottled water samples sourced ...
PFAS are fluorinated chemicals, which means the carbon atoms within their structure are bonded to fluorine atoms – those strong chemical bonds are hard to break, hence needing very high ...
"The route of exposure, depending on the particular type of PFAS chemical and the type of cancer, can be through inhalation (fumes that emit from the pan when heated) or through digestion (eating ...
"Toxicity studies in the laboratory and human epidemiological studies of those drinking PFAS contaminated water have highlighted these chemical compounds can impact the immune, nervous and ...
Specifically, our guest talks about the EPA’s new PFAS Safe Drinking Water Final Rule, which mandates acceptable levels of PFAS in public water systems. This episode is based on a CLE webinar our ...
So far, regulation of the chemical class has been a "tangled web" due to the nature of the definition of PFAS, said Shalene Thomas, senior emerging contaminants program manager at nonprofit R&D ...
The issue of PFAS chemical contamination came on the public scene in 2019 with the release of “Dark Waters,” a movie that ...
TAOS — Brett Shipley, longtime ski and snowboard technician at Adventure Ski Shops in Taos, wasn’t aware certain sectors of his industry for decades used dangerous “forever chemicals ...
Study estimates nearly half of U.S. water supply contaminated with ‘forever chemicals’ A recent government study estimates nearly half of America’s tap water could contain toxic "forever ...