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Find out whether dangerous ‘forever chemicals' are in your water, and if they are, the best filters to remove them If your ...
The Trump administration on May 14 moved to change standards and enforcement on so-called "forever chemicals" in drinking ...
As President Trump's EPA prepares to roll back some of the safeguards against so-called "forever chemicals," some Americans ...
EPA issued a news release (available here) stating that the agency will maintain the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) National ...
The drinking water rules were adopted as part of the Biden administration’s efforts to limit public exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), hazardous chemicals linked to a range ...
A new study examined associations between diet, drinking water, and 'legacy' PFAS -- chemicals that were phased out of production in the US in the 2000s -- with blood samples from California residents ...
“We're just going to have to keep drinking PFAS for another decade,” said Betsy Southerland, a retired official from the EPA’s water office. “By having drinking water standards only for ...
Michigan State University researchers conducted the study in southwestern Michigan, where it was discovered the drinking water had been contaminated by PFAS in 2018. Researchers divided the study ...
The national rules required water providers to treat drinking water if the individual chemicals PFOS and PFOA exceed 4 parts-per-trillion (ppt), if PFNA, PFHxS and GenX exceeded 10-ppt, or if a ...
Chicago and other Illinois communities that depend on Lake Michigan for drinking water will not be required to do anything other than test for the PFAS chemicals. (Erin Hooley/Chicago Tribune ...
The EPA announced plans Wednesday to roll back drinking water standards for so-called “forever chemicals.” In North Carolina, ...