Tag: PFAS
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Firefighting foam linked to water contamination across Massachusetts
State environmental officials are tracking an emerging threat to drinking water across Massachusetts linked to a firefighting foam used at military installations and airports. “Back in 2012, 2013 we started showing these contaminates” said Dan Santos, director of the Barnstable Department of Public Works. Testing revealed toxic levels of chemicals in the soil at the…
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First blood tests in Bucks, Montco show above-average contamination after tainted water
Residents in Bucks and Montgomery Counties who participated in a blood-testing program because their drinking water was contaminated by chemicals on nearby military bases have a dramatically higher presence of some chemicals in their blood than the general U.S. population — in the case of one chemical, five times more than the typical American. The…
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Erin Brockovich is warning about an emerging drinking-water crisis in the USA
Here’s how she recommends you protect yourself. Erin Brockovich, who some of you know as the woman who fought against California’s Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) in 1996 and later had a movie made about her, is a fierce supporter of clean water. And because of her work over the last couple of decades, when…
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Businesses discharging PFAS into Michigan’s waterways
Michigan businesses are discharging high levels of PFAS that move into the state’s waterways on a daily basis. An MLive investigation found that manufacturing sources are sending one version of the “forever chemicals” at up to 20,000 times the allowed amount into wastewater systems that discharge it into the state’s lakes, rivers and, ultimately, threatening…
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‘What did we do?’ Families anxious about chemicals found in tap water
Photo: Emergency response teams hand out bottled water to residents at Parchment High School. (CNN)It’s been about three weeks since Tammy Cooper last drank water from her tap. That’s when she saw a warning on Facebook for residents of her small Western Michigan town to stop drinking the water. In Michigan, water main breaks aren’t…
