Water System Project Targets 'Forever Chemicals'

Could UK Tap Water's 'Forever Chemicals' Lead To France-Style Bans?

Here's what two experts have to say.

Earth, Wind and Fire: PFAS

PFAS are all around us: in our cleaning products, in our cookware, in our clothing. The properties that make the forever chemicals so useful — ability to resist water and endure heat — are also what makes them difficult to…

Sheffield: Berkshire Green Drinks talk on 'forever chemicals'

Laura Orlando, senior scientist at Just Zero and Boston University adjunct professor, will speak on PFAS contamination at the Berkshire Green Drinks hybrid event on Wednesday, July 9.

How plants could help us detect, and even destroy, dangerous ‘forever chemicals'

The vision “I think a lot of people now are aware of PFAS, or concerned about it, or want to know whether it’s present in their water, their food. The whole purpose of what we’re trying to do is develop something that’s simple and cost effective to answer that question for them.” — Bryan Berger, professor of chemical engineering at the University of Virginia The spotlight Last fall, we wrote a story about how a group of researchers, together wi…

Wastewater treatment plants channel ‘forever chemicals’ into waterways nationwide • Michigan Advance

River Rouge | Susan J. DemasThis article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Harmful “forever chemicals” flow from wastewater treatment plants into surface water across the U.S., according to a new report by a clean-water advocacy group. Weekslong sampling by the Waterkeeper Alliance both upstream and downstream…

Experts befuddled as Trump moves to 'hamstring' his own health policy

One summer day in 2017, a front-page story in the StarNews of Wilmington, North Carolina, shook up the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. The drinking water system, it said, was polluted with a contaminant commonly known as GenX, part of the family of “forever” PFAS chemicals.It came from a C...