The Appleton Fire Department doesn’t have a good replacement for the PFAS-containing firefighting foam yet. Firefighters use the foam in Class B incidents, or petroleum-based fires, which are rare.

harmful class of compounds known as PFAS. The foam is common in fire departments across Maine. The Portland Fire Department is in the midst of that transition, having swapped AFFF in two of three ...

Efforts to get harmful “forever chemicals” out of firefighting foam used in Oregon are closer to being realized.

HAWTHORNE — The borough has settled part of a class-action lawsuit with a leading manufacturer of firefighting foam, and the ...

Residents of Brunswick Landing, the site of Maine's worst toxic firefighting foam spill, joined environmental groups to urge lawmakers to quantify the amount of foam in Maine and fund a voluntary ...

Efforts to get harmful “forever chemicals” out of firefighting foam used in Oregon are closer to being realized. The state Senate voted nearly unanimously Tuesday to pass Senate Bill 91 and ...