In the case of the other two compounds, Olson says the EPA can’t legally extend the deadline for utilities to comply. The ...

Despite the rollback, officials with the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority (CFPUA) are proud of its Sweeney Water Treatment ...

The Trump administration on Wednesday announced plans to rescind and postpone rules limiting “forever chemicals” in drinking water that were enacted under the Biden administration and designed to ...

The change from the federal agency does not affect the state’s efforts to continue work already underway to reduce levels of PFAS at contaminated sites, the state’s director of drinking water ...

On Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to weaken limits on some harmful “forever chemicals” in ...

PFAS, known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), are a group of 15,000 highly toxic, synthetic chemicals resistant ...

The chemicals have been linked to increased risk of cancer, high blood pressure, and other health issues for those exposed.

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 ...

A major investigation has detected high-level contamination of highly toxic, synthetic chemicals in water, which might be the ...

Dangerous "forever chemicals" have lingered for decades in drinking water in the picturesque Blue Mountains and have been ...

Limits on three types of PFAS will be scrapped and reconsidered by the agency, as will a limit on a mixture of several types of PFAS.