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Used to make coatings and products that resist heat, oil, stains, grease and water, the lab-made chemicals called PFAS can be found in thousands of industrial and consumer goods. Suspected as the caus...
04.16.2024 Bloomberg.com
Invisible, omnipresent 'forever chemicals' have been linked to a wide range of serious effects on human health, prompting growing calls for them to be banned. While there is firm evidence that at leas...
04.17.2024 Hindustantimes.com
Despite widespread understanding of the health and environmental damages caused by forever chemicals, manufacturers continue to win federal approval to synthesize new versions of the toxic compounds w...
04.18.2024 Chicagotribune.com
More than 5, 000 sites across the U. S. are polluted with the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS, creating an urgent national health and environmental crisis. The Biden administration took a cruc...
04.18.2024 Ewg.org
Editor’s Note: This excerpt is adapted from Loose of Earth: A Memoir (April 2024) with permission from University of Texas Press. The Environmental Protection Agency announced limits on PFAS in drinking water earlier this month. A blade of light glances off my grandparents’ white Lincoln. They park at the curb. A torque of despair turns in my stomach at the way Dad draws his mother into his arms. There’s a tumor in Dad’s colon. That’s all anyone knows. Mom has continued to say they’ve caught it ...
04.18.2024 Texasobserver.org and 1 sites
(CNN/WSAW) - They can be found in some makeup, sunscreen, and even pizza boxes, a large family of potentially dangerous synthetic chemicals, also known as PFAS, and with new laws being passed, we want...
04.17.2024 Wsls.com and 1 sites
As a kid, I never quite got the appeal of clogs, which my parents wore seemingly everywhere—gardening, the grocery store, work. But decades later, I know now what my parents likely knew then: that clo...
04.18.2024 Afar.com
