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Chemical Manufacturing Made New Jersey the ‘PFAS Toilet for the Country’

Now, the state’s top environmental regulator explains how a record settlement with DuPont will provide $1.2 billion in cleanup costs and help communities get the “forever chemicals” out of their water.

Interview by Paloma Beltran, Living on Earth

The former DuPont chemical manufacturing facility at the Repauno Port and Rail Terminal in New Jersey is being cleaned up for PFAS contamination. Credit: Office of the NJ Attorney General

Amid Federal PFAS Rollbacks, New Jersey Scores Record $2 Billion DuPont Settlement

By Rambo Talabong

The community water system in Crest Hill, Ill., was one of 47 to receive a notice by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency warning of contaminated water. Credit: City of Crest Hill

Illinois Communities Grapple With ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Their Drinking Water

By Douglas J. Guth

Wastewater Treatment Plants Channel ‘Forever Chemicals’ Into Waterways Nationwide

By Anika Jane Beamer

The Trump Administration Plans to Undo Standards on Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ in the U.S. Drinking Water Supply

By Georgina Gustin

EPA Says It Will Act on PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals.’ Advocates Raise Red Flags

By Keerti Gopal

Laurene Allen won the 2025 Goldman Environmental Prize for her activism with contaminated in her hometown of Merrimack, N.H. Credit: Goldman Environmental Prize

She Galvanized Her Community After a Company Contaminated It With ‘Forever Chemicals’

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

The Chicago skyline is seen across Lake Michigan from Whiting, Ind. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Chicago Considers New Approaches for PFAS Management

By Kacie Faith Kress

A ‘Trojan Horse’ for Toxic Chemicals

By Liza Gross

Tony and Karen Coleman stand over a plot of land where they buried a deceased calf and bull on their property in Grandview on Aug. 5. Credit: Azul Sordo for The Texas Tribune

Texas Farmers Say Sewage-Based Fertilizer Tainted With ‘Forever Chemicals’ Poisoned Their Land and Killed Their Livestock

By Alejandra Martinez, The Texas Tribune

Nonprofit Law Center Asks EPA to Take Over Water Permitting in N.C.

By Lisa Sorg

North Carolina Environmental Regulators at War Over Water Rules for ‘Forever Chemicals’

By Lisa Sorg

Texas Companies Eye Pecos River Watershed for Oilfield Wastewater

By Martha Pskowski, Dylan Baddour

Fred Stone’s Arundel dairy farm was one of more than 60 Maine farms that had to be shut down due to PFAS contamination. Credit: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

PFAS Is an Almost Impossible Problem to Tackle—and It’s Probably in Your Food

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

Petrochemicals Are Killing Us, a New Report Warns in the New England Journal of Medicine

By Liza Gross

Chemours and DuPont Knew About Risks But Kept Making Toxic PFAS Chemicals, UN Human Rights Advisors Conclude

By James Bruggers

Bisphenols, used in aluminum can linings, are synthetic estrogens that mess with fat distribution in the body. Credit: Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images

Q&A: Everyday Plastics Are Making Us Sick—and Costing Us $250 Billion a Year in Healthcare

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

$A natural gas compressor station on a hillside Septem in Penn Township, Pennsylvania. The area is situated above the Marcellus Shale, where a process called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, pumps millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals into horizontally drilled wells to stimulate the release of the gas. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images.$

Pennsylvania’s Gas Industry Used 160 Million Pounds of Secret Chemicals From 2012 to 2022, a New Report Says

By Jon Hurdle

Watchdog Finds a US Chemical Plant Isn’t Reporting Emissions of Climate Super-Pollutants and Ozone-Depleting Substances to Federal Regulators

By Phil McKenna

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