At Tuesday’s Newton County Board of Commissioners meeting, the board heard an update on water levels and whether any per-and ...

an environmental chemist at Harvard who’s been studying PFAS for roughly a decade, explained to Vox. “An organic molecule has bonds of carbon and hydrogen atoms. To make PFAS molecules ...

I felt protected but not claustrophobic. That protection, it turns out, was due to a class of toxic chemicals, known as PFAS and PFCs, that as of January 2025 are now banned from apparel for sale ...

"The issue with them is that they don't destroy the PFAS molecule," Professor O'Carroll said. "It just concentrates them on the activated carbon or the ion exchange resin, and then you have to do ...

Per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) earn their “forever chemical” moniker by persisting in water, soil and even the human brain. This unique ability to cross the blood-brain barrier and ...

The Environmental Protection Agency recently warned that sludge could contain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, posing health risks to farmers, livestock and the environment.

A proposed ban on PFAS chemicals is being challenged over concerns about potential supply chain disruption in the ...

Over the past couple of years there has been a growing focus on PFAS (per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances) — a group of more than 10,000 synthetic chemicals that are widely used in consumer and ...

Levels of PFAS in sewage sludge used as fertilizer can pose risks that sometimes exceed safety thresholds “by several orders of magnitude,” the agency said. By Hiroko Tabuchi For the first ...

Researchers have developed a new chemical tool that could help lower the cost of prescription medications. The tool, called AshPhos, is a ligand, or molecule, that makes it easier to create special ...

University of Missouri researchers and collaborators have developed a new chemical tool that could help lower the cost of ...

He became the first Maine farm to close due to PFAS. In 2022, Maine banned sludge spreading, and is now investigating PFAS in retail products and landfills. With hundreds of sludge sites left to ...