With its charming shops, historic homes and unique gardens, Lambertville has been known as one of “America’s Best Small Towns ...

PFOA and PFOS have been found in the drinking water of 200 million Americans, including 6 out of 10 Illinoisans.

New Jersey reaches a $450 million settlement with 3M over PFAS contamination, addressing long-standing environmental and ...

Wisconsin's Jackson Correctional Institution, where unsafe levels of PFAS were found in the drinking water, is requesting $14 million for a new filtration system. The Town of Brockway, which ...

Until then, Meek said, he “had no idea what PFAS was.” Last year, the Environmental Protection Agency set the first federal drinking water limits for PFAS, or perfluoroalkyl and ...

The health effects of those chemicals, known as "short-chain PFAS," have not yet been extensively studied. But anticipating future regulations, water providers from Bethpage to Hampton Bays are ...

The state of South Dakota will spend up to $250,000 to clear PFAS chemicals from local areas in the coming year. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known as PFAS or “forever chemicals ...

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PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are a group of several thousand man-made chemicals used to make products water repellent, heat-resistant, or non-stick.

Across the country, thousands of ordinary Americans whose lives have been upended by PFAS — firefighters, farmers, factory workers, veterans and suburban moms — are fighting to turn off the ...