Tag: PFAS
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Pennsylvania winery delivers water to help save sick horses in East Palestine
Photo: The Murphy family says since the train derailment, their animals have been sick. EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — While the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency says no animals or wildlife have died since the train derailment, residents who live in East Palestine tell 10TV they are concerned for their health and for their pets. The Murphy…
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Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to EPA’s Latest Plan for Regulating PFAS Discharges
Points to New Great Lakes Study as Reason for More Urgency Waterkeeper Alliance is responding to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) release of its latest plan for controlling PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) discharges under the Clean Water Act in United States waterways. Shared nine months after the agency’s self-imposed deadline, the Alliance is…
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Why limiting PFAS in drinking water is a challenge in the US
Andrea Amico (center) joined with Michelle Dalton (left) and Alayna Davis to form a community group seeking tests of those who drank PFAS-polluted water, including their children, at a redeveloped Air Force base. Credit: AP The EPA faces legal and other hurdles as it attempts to regulate PFOA and PFOS An article in the local…
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Scientists: new way to get ‘forever chemicals’ linked to cancer out of our water
Photo: Clarkson University professors Tom Holsen and Selma Mededovic in front of a plasma reactor. Clarkson University They’re in the bloodstreams of 99% of Americans. More than 70 years ago, a group of chemicals known as PFAS promised to make people’s lives easier and more efficient. The category of chemicals — whose full name is…
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Pain, cancer, death: Michigan families devastated by toxic chemicals in their water
Sandy Wynn-Stelt at home in Belmont. ‘I’m sitting here full of this stuff and not knowing what it’s going to do to me five years, 10 years from now.’ Photograph: Tom Perkins In the years before 2017, Sandy Wynn-Stelt and her husband had suspicions about the water they drew from a well on their House…
