Researchers found high concentrations of toxic “forever chemicals” in seawater offshore Okinawa in 2023, suggesting this ...

The attorney general's lawsuit focuses on PFOA, one of the almost indestructible toxins manufactured by W.L. Gore for decades. Research has linked PFOA to kidney and testicular cancer, pregnancy ...

Skamania, and Celeste Maloy, R-Utah, recently introduced the bipartisan Water Systems PFAS Liability Protection Act. The ...

A Navy map shows expanded testing boundaries ... but the results did not exceed contamination limits triggering further action. Detections of PFOA and PFOS were found in 13 of 16 wells, ranging ...

Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown recently sued the maker of Gore-Tex, accusing the company of harming the state’s environment by releasing toxic forever chemicals. Brown told 11 News ...

The assessment, issued in draft form, is limited to just PFOA and PFOS, the most-studied chemicals in ... or witnessed nutrient pollution, the federal mandate “represents additional strain on already ...

That means the agency has no legal leverage to force a water system to address contamination. In 2016, however, the agency set a health advisory level: 70 parts per trillion for combined PFOA and PFOS ...

Wheat fields and rain clouds are seen at a farm in Keenesburg in 2020. (Lance Cheung/USDA/Public Domain Mark 1.0) New information published by the Environmental Protection Agency this month ...

PFOA and PFOS are two of the tens of thousands of types of per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) compounds. They are called "forever chemicals" because they do not break down in the environment or in ...