Recent EPA regulations on PFAS, commonly known as “forever chemicals,” seek to tackle a trillion-dollar problem.

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Efforts are also underway to phase out nonessential uses of PFAS. Some U.S. states have banned PFAS in consumer products like ...

Public wastewater systems throughout the state, including those in Salem and Eugene, offer biosolids to farmers to fertilize fields.

Scientists have identified a form of bacteria that eats the toxic "forever chemicals" that leach into the water supply by way of manufacturing. Better yet, the bacteria also munch on the chemicals' ...

Local officials are waiting for what comes next at the federal level while they continue to grapple with a toxic chemical ...

Toxic chemicals, per-, and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, abbreviated as PFAS and also known as "forever chemicals," have been ...

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Toxic forever chemicals can be removed from drinking water by a form of activated carbon commonly used to clean aquariums, a ...