CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Okinawa prefecture again wants to sample soil and water on Marine Corps Air Station Futenma after detecting PFOS at a neighboring elementary school in December. Tests by the ...

PFAS are a family of thousands of synthetic chemicals that show up in everyday products and environments. From non-stick ...

ALBANY -- As yet another community in the Capital Region has discovered contaminants in its drinking water, advocates are urging the state Department of Health to abandon a plan to allow delays in ...

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it will keep maximum contaminant levels (MCL) in drinking water for two of the PFAS chemicals thought to be the most egregious of the "forever ...

Designation as a hazardous substance under the Superfund law doesn’t ban the chemicals, known as PFOA and PFOS. But it requires that releases of the chemicals into soil or water be reported to federal ...

A recent University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center study sheds light on how the environmental pollutant perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) may affect our intestines and possibly increase the risk ...

Funds will support excavation, demolition, and remediation efforts at the Fire Station No. 2 site, where PFOS contamination ...

The Hawaii Department of Health today said trace levels of Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid – or PFOS — were recently detected in water samples collected from the Kipapa Acres water system in Central Oahu ...