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A PFAS water treatment plant is seen in Villa Park, Calif. Credit: Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images

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

By Georgina Gustin
The settlement stems from 3M’s supply of PFAS to the Chambers Works facility in Salem County, N.J. Credit: Tim Larsen/Office of New Jersey Attorney General

In a Landmark PFAS Payout, 3M to Pay New Jersey $450 Million

By Rambo Talabong
Nearly half of the tap water in the U.S. is contaminated with toxic PFAS. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

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
After the Winston Weaver fertilizer plant caught fire, the facility's owners shipped thousands of gallons of fire suppressant water to a dairy farm in Yadkin County. That material contained toxic PFAS. Credit: Winston-Salem Fire Department

EPA Weighs N.C. Environmental Harms From Sewage Sludge Used as Fertilizer

By Lisa Sorg
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
The Waste Energy plant would process plastics sourced from throughout the East Coast using pyrolysis, which breaks down materials at very high temperatures in the oxygen-free furnace. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Does N.C. Need Another Polluting Plant to Turn Plastic Waste Into Diesel Fuel?

By Lisa Sorg
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
The Cape Fear River has been contaminated with forever chemicals, such as PFAS and 1,4-Dioxane from industrial dischargers upstream. Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

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

By Lisa Sorg
Chemours supports the EPA’s proposed rule to rescind drinking water standards for GenX and several other PFAS compounds. Credit: Chemours

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

By Lisa Sorg
Fish from Seneca Lake have been found to be contaminated with PFOS at levels 1,000 times higher than the New York State limit for drinking water. Credit: John Greim/LightRocket via Getty Images

EPA Urges US Army to Test for PFAS in Creeks Flowing Out of Former Seneca Army Depot

By Peter Mantius
A view of an oil well adjacent to the Red Bluff Reservoir in Reeves County, Texas on Feb. 24, 2020. NGL Water Solutions Permian has proposed to discharge treated produced water into the reservoir. Credit: Justin Hamel

Texas Companies Eye Pecos River Watershed for Oilfield Wastewater

By Martha Pskowski, Dylan Baddour
Residents near the Moody unauthorized dump site continue to worry about health impacts caused by the underground fire. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Forever Chemicals From a Forever Fire

By Lee Hedgepeth
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
Steam rises from a petroleum processing tower at an oil refinery near Salt Lake City, Utah. Credit: Jon G. Fuller/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

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

By Liza Gross
The ocean stores much of the emissions released by human activities, but it is reaching a tipping point, research shows. Credit: Brendon Thorne/Getty Images

Singapore to Build World’s Largest Facility that Sucks Carbon From the Sea

By Kiley Price
A sculpture with "karibuni," the word "welcome" in Swahili, at United Nations Office in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2018. Credit: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images.

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

By James Bruggers
Plastic additives called bisphenols are found in a dizzying array of products—like canned food linings. Credit: Li Jianguo/Xinhua via Getty Images

More Than 900 Widely Used Chemicals May Increase Breast Cancer Risk

By Liza Gross

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