You can investigate your local drinking water PFAS levels using tools like the United States Geological Survey (USGS) PFAS in US Tap Water Interactive Dashboard. On the food front, try to swap out ...

Noting a U.S. Geological Survey study conducted in 2003, Lau added that all landfills eventually leak — often dispersing into the environment harmful chemicals like arsenic as well as PFAS ...

Scientists from the China University of Sciences combined magnetic solid-phase extraction (MSPE) with gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) to analyze perfluoro carboxylic acids (PFCAs) in ...

One toxic compound killed all the monkeys 3M's scientists fed it to, and another entered the bodies of pregnant women workers at DuPont and was passed along to their babies. The two companies kept ...

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 ...

ATLANTA — The feds are no longer planning to clean up harmful forever chemicals from our drinking water. President Trump is ...

Country councils have told a parliamentary inquiry into PFAS contamination that the presence of forever chemicals in their drinking water bores could force them to turn them off. The inquiry has ...

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 ...

The government study also revealed people who are “socially vulnerable” have higher risks of facing water scarcity.