Learn more. The Maine Board of Environmental Protection (BEP) held a public hearing on Jan. 16 on a proposed rule regarding the unavoidable use of intentionally added PFAS in products. The rule ...

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The executive summary section of the report details at length how the Air Force has worked to treat and/or monitor the presence of PFAS — known as forever chemicals — at multiple locations on ...

A technical article with an austere title ("Grouping of PFAS for human health risk assessment"). Signed by an "independent panel of experts." Published in a peer-reviewed journal belonging to the ...

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York 13699, United States Institute for a Sustainable Environment, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York 13699, ...

He became the first Maine farm to close due to PFAS. In 2022, Maine banned sludge spreading, and is now investigating PFAS in retail products and landfills. With hundreds of sludge sites left to ...

"The issue with them is that they don't destroy the PFAS molecule," Professor O'Carroll said. "It just concentrates them on the activated carbon or the ion exchange resin, and then you have to do ...

Fertilizers that contain treated sewage tainted with toxic PFAS chemicals can be spread on farmland and pose a health risk to people who consume milk, eggs and beef, the agency says. Audio ...

Eighty years ago, scientists did not know how to manufacture PFAS. Now, we cannot get rid of them. Almost every PFAS molecule ever synthesised is still out there. Some do break down — but into new ...

As such, almost every PFAS molecule ever synthesized is still thought to be in the environment. Short-chain and ultrashort-chain PFAS such as trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) are small enough to bypass most ...

This article was originally published as 'PFAS: UK Regulatory Snapshot' in March 2023. It was last updated in January 2025. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) – so-called 'forever chemicals' – ...

Freshwater turtles in Australia exposed to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, experienced changes to their metabolic functions, environmental biochemist David Beale and colleagues ...