Trump’s First EPA Promised to Crack Down on Forever Chemicals. His Second EPA Is Pulling Back.

Saint-Gobain completes demolition of Merrimack facility embroiled in PFAS pollution scandal • New Hampshire Bulletin

Pastics manufacturer Saint-Gobain, based in Paris, has finished demolishing its facility in Merrimack, which the state has long blamed for contaminating the air and water in Merrimack and nearby communities. (Photo by Jean-Luc Ichard | Getty Images Plus)Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics, the multi-national corporation widely blamed for contaminating southern New Hampshire’s air and water with dangerous levels of PFAS chemicals, has finished demo…

Trump’s first EPA promised to crack down on forever chemicals. His second EPA is pulling back.

Maine has been a leader in regulating perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances — including being the first state to pass a rule requiring manufacturers to report intentionally added PFAS in products. (Photo by Getty Images) This story was originally published by ProPublica.  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 syst…

EPA Has Terminated Over $15 Million in Funding for “Forever Chemicals” Research

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 Chemours plant in Fayetteville, near the winding Cape Fear River. Few knew about the… Source

Trump’s first EPA promised to crack down on ‘forever chemicals.’ His second EPA Is pulling back.

A 3M plant in Cottage Grove that manufactured PFAS as of 2022. (Photo by Chad Davis)This story was originally published by ProPublica. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one. 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 o…

Wastewater treatment plants channel ‘forever chemicals’ into waterways nationwide

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…

Trump’s First EPA Promised to Crack Down on Forever Chemicals. His Second EPA Is Pulling Back.

The agency has delayed enforcement of its standards, slashed its staff and terminated over $15 million in PFAS research grants.