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3M is still on track to stop making PFAS by the end of the year. But it’s probably going to take longer to stop using or selling the toxic “forever chemicals” completely. The Maplewood-based ...
Scientists say that PFAS, nicknamed "forever chemicals," are building up in animals like polar bears, seals, and birds and at alarming levels in the Arctic. People living in the Arctic ...
In a historic move to address the growing health threat of “forever chemicals,” the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is enacting new regulations covering PFAS, a class of seemingly ...
But since learning about per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) — also known as forever chemicals — in area rivers, she has stopped eating the freshwater fish. "I just haven't," she said.
Until then, Meek said, he “had no idea what PFAS was.” Last year, the Environmental Protection Agency set the first federal drinking water limits for PFAS, or perfluoroalkyl and ...
State agencies collect data on three types of fish contaminants: mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls, and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as PFAS. The Minnesota Department of Health ...