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PFAS Contamination in Drinking Water May Be Underestimated, New Study Suggests

Researchers found that treating PFAS measurements below laboratory reporting limits as “zero” may underestimate how widespread the chemicals are in U.S. drinking water.

By Alissa de Chassey

 A new study that reanalyzed federal monitoring datafound that estimated PFAS concentrations in U.S. drinking water could be more than twice as high as calculations that treat results below laboratory reporting limits as zero suggest. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images.
A canoer passes along the Hillsborough River among the office buildings downtown in Tampa, Florida, on Jan. 22, 2012. Credit: Linda Davidson/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Researchers Find Widespread PFAS Contamination in Florida Waterways

By Amy Green
Nicole Williams’ home was built on land that once belonged to the farm behind her, which has been identified as the source of PFAS in her well. Credit: Ben Seal/Inside Climate News

The Specter of ‘Forever Chemicals’ Looms Over Pennsylvania’s Rural Communities

By Ben Seal
The crop duster spraying a field is flying low in the direction of the photographer

Industry Interests Spent Big Money to Stop California From Banning PFAS Pesticides

By Liza Gross
A woman shops for dairy products at a grocery story in New York City on April 9. Credit: Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images

No One Knows All the Toxic Chemicals You’re Eating

By Liza Gross
Visitors swim in the water at the Cenote Xkeken near Chichén Itzá in Yucatán, Mexico. Credit: Sebastian Kahnert/dpa via Getty Images

Mexican Cenotes Are in Danger

By Andrés Muedano
Mike Watters stands in a granular activated carbon filtration system that Chemours was required to give him after his well in Grays Creek was contaminated with several types of PFAS. Credit: Mehmet Demirci/Inside Climate News

A Key Forever Chemicals Lawsuit Settles Out of Court in North Carolina

By Lisa Sorg
Members of the Lumberton Alumnae Chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and Las Amigas Incorporated march along Britt Road on April 18 in St. Pauls, N.C., against the Robeson County Landfill expansion. Credit: Morgan Casey

‘We Just Want Clean Water’: Residents Sue a North Carolina County Over Landfill Contamination

By Morgan Casey, Lisa Sorg
An aerial view of the Brookhaven landfill in New York. Credit: Steve Pfost/Newsday RM via Getty Images

Troubled by Spreading Landfill Pollution, a Long Island Community Demands Action

By Lauren Dalban
Pipes divert raw sewage into the C&O Canal around a broken section of the Potomac Interceptor on Feb. 16 in Cabin John, Md. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Sewage and Fuel Leaks Contaminate the Potomac River, Source of Drinking Water for More Than 5 Million People

By Aman Azhar
A close-up of the foam on a reflective surface

Severe Exposure to ‘Forever Chemicals’ During Pregnancy Could Lead to Childhood Asthma

By Keerti Gopal
A farmworker harvests strawberries in a field on March 31 near Oxnard, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

California Bill Aims to Keep Toxic PFAS off Its Crops

By Liza Gross
Water quality expert Bob Bowcock tests a creek for cancer-causing PFAS “forever chemicals” at a property in Dalton, Ga., on June 12, 2025. Credit: Issam Ahmed/AFP via Getty Images

Former EPA Staff Detail Expanding Pollution Risks Under Trump

By Liza Gross
The Port of Wilmington on the Cape Fear River handled about 7 million tons of cargo in 2022. Credit: NC Ports

The Army Corps of Engineers Wants to Dredge the Cape Fear River. Environmentalists Tally the Costs.

By Lisa Sorg
Fred the handyman at the Shiloh Commons installs a new water filter in a residence January 21, 2016 in Flint, Michigan. The city's water supply had been contaminated by lead after a switch from Lake Huron to the Flint river as a source in April 2014. Credit: Sarah Rice/Getty Images

Michigan’s Other Water Crisis: PFAS’s Prevalence in Private Wells

By K.R. Callaway
Jane Hoppin, an environmental epidemiologist at N.C. State, was part of a research team that analyzed archived samples of blood and drinking water for forever chemicals. Credit: Cornell Watson/Inside Climate News

Scientists Say the Forever Chemical TFA Could Cause Irreversible Harm. In Eastern North Carolina, It’s Everywhere.

By Lisa Sorg
Piles of compost and mulch sit at the Hawk Ridge compost facility in Unity Township, Maine. Credit: Sydney Cromwell/Inside Climate News

Maine Was First To Ban Spreading PFAS-Contaminated Sludge on Farmland. Now Sludge Is Filling up Landfills.

By Sydney Cromwell
A view of the Everglades on Miccosukee land in Florida. Credit: Lisette Morales McCabe/The Washington Post via Getty Images

‘Forever Chemicals’ Represent New Environmental Threat for Florida’s Fragile Everglades

By Amy Green
The settlement payout compensates customers for expenses in avoiding drinking water tainted with a “forever chemical” in October 2021. Credit: Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images

NJ Residents to Receive $4.9 Million Settlement for PFAS Contamination in Drinking Water

By Jon Hurdle

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