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The frigid waters that surround Antarctica may be inhospitable to human inhabitance, but they are churning with the manmade relics of toxic chemical production, a new study has found. Certain ...
Hazardous chemicals contaminate drinking water, soil and food worldwide. Who is responsible for the contamination caused by these "forever chemicals"?
Ministry publishes draft regulations to restrict production, trade and use of persistent organic pollutants found in ...
Treating drinking water to tackle multiple pollutants could prevent more than 50,000 cancer cases in the U.S., a new study found.
PFAS are a group of thousands of per- and polyfluoroalkyl “forever chemicals” known to cause cancer, liver damage, birth ...
It’s still unclear how deadly PFAS molecules are, or aren’t, but scientists, and tap water consumers, are eager to find out.
The Occoquan Reservoir supplies water for around a million people in Northern Virginia and it exceeds the EPA’s max contaminant levels for forever chemicals.