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Quick summary • 3M marketed its firefighting foams as safe and biodegradable for decades, despite knowing they contained toxic PFAS chemicals that persist in the environment. E ...

Mira Rojanasakul’s piece for The New York Times paints an overarching, albeit grim, picture of the homeowners landscape. The ...

FRIDAY, Jan. 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Sewer sludge from wastewater treatment plants appears to expose farmers and nearby ...

At UNC, if the pellets fully replaced coal, levels of some pollutants, such as sulfuric acid and fine particulate matter, ...

Exposure to food from farms that use the sewage sludge can raise a person’s risk of developing cancer or other health ...

Farm families that consume milk, eggs and beef they raise themselves face an increased risk of cancer if their fields were ...

Washington, DC – On Tuesday, EPA released a long-awaited draft report demonstrating that toxic "forever chemicals" in sewage ...

The findings are particularly relevant for northeast Illinois, where more than 777,000 tons of sludge from Chicago and Cook ...

Per- and polyfluoroalkylated substances are synthetic chemicals that are widely used in our daily lives and in industrial ...

Environmental advocates are calling for a ban the use of sewage sludge as fertilizer. An EPA draft report found that there ...

With their multiyear investigation not yet halfway complete, Maine state inspectors have identified more than 100 Maine farms and 500 residential properties contaminated by the harmful forever ...