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Since the passage of the Clean Water Act in 1972, many wastewater treatment plants have operated with a simple environmental trade-off — they treat water from population centers, industrial sources, landfills and elsewhere, and the leftover solids can be sent to farms…
For decades, chemical manufacturers knew that the substances known collectively as PFAS were hazardous to human health. And they hid what they knew from the public and from federal regulators. DuPont, 3M Concealed Evidence of PFAS Risks Published Mar 22, 2019 For decades,…
PFAS contamination raises legitimate health and environmental concerns, but this diverse family of thousands of chemicals should not be treated as uniformly dangerous, and some safe uses currently lack viable substitutes. “Farmers are partners in risk reduction, not convenient downstream…
Those findings do not mean every public water system has the same burden. They do show why timing matters. If a system has elevated PFOA or PFOS and receives extra time before enforceable compliance, affected customers may continue using water…
PFAS Compliance Delays are now a public-health timing question, not only an administrative one. The issue is whether some public water systems should receive more time to meet federal drinking-water limits for PFOA and PFOS, two widely discussed chemicals in…
Lead Poisoning Prevention Week raises awareness of lead's serious health harms and exposure sources worldwide. Lead is a well-recognised toxicant with wide-ranging health impacts on neurological, cardiovascular, renal, gastrointestinal and haematological systems Young children are particularly vulnerable as they have…
PFAS, the synthetic compounds known as forever chemicals, were detected in 91% of 86 New Jersey waterways tested, New Jersey 101.5 reported. Some of the contaminated waterways flow upstream of drinking water intakes. South Jersey sites are on the list. The Inquirer reported…
More than 180 young people took to the streets of Dhaka on Sunday, demanding stronger lead regulations, effective enforcement of existing standards, and immediate action to protect millions of children from the devastating effects of lead poisoning. Carrying placards and festoons…
The change was made after a complaint by the nonprofit organization Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). It pointed out that the EPA allows PFOA production in the US, although the previous wording on the agency's website gave the impression…
For decades, the indestructible nature of PFAS “forever chemicals” made them impossible to remove from the global environment. But a new wave of remediation technologies, utilizing extreme thermal decomposition and intense UV light, is finally proving that these toxic carbon-fluorine…