Per and polyfluorinated alkyl substances, or PFAS, are chemicals that linger in the body and are linked to health issues like cancer, obesity, liver damage, decreased fertility, thyroid disease, high ...

Health experts have only recently begun to explore the harmful — and potentially carcinogenic — properties of PFAS.

PFAS destruction startup Aquagga has appointed Dhileep Sivam, a former executive at Intellectual Ventures, as its new CEO.

Many states have enacted laws this year to restrict the use of PFAS — often called “forever chemicals” — in a wide array of ...

A University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign study is the first to describe an electrochemical strategy to capture, concentrate ...

(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, file ... The department said in a statement that it sampled wildlife in the area and found they ...

The National Health and Medical Research Council is aiming to play down the major health risks posed by the presence of PFAS ...

"These theories ... are commonly characterized as the exposure, manifestation, injury-in-fact, and continuous trigger ...

The department warned that organs and other parts of the wildlife from the affected communities are not safe to eat. It said ...

The city of Montpelier has shelved an ambitious but expensive plan to upgrade its wastewater treatment plant with technology ...

States face uncertainty about their authority under a federal waste law to order PFAS waste cleanups, especially as those orders apply to federal agencies, but pending regulations and an ongoing court ...

Two researchers at UMass Amherst have been working on an easier, less expensive way to detect per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in water. Exposure to PFAS, a class of man-made chemicals ...