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The chemicals in the firefighting foam are suspected to have polluted more than 700 active and former military installations as well as thousands of towns...

The chemicals in the firefighting foam are suspected to have polluted more than 700 active and former military installations as well as thousands of towns...

YAKIMA, Wash.-The Army has installed the first Point of Entry Treatment filtration system in an East Selah home.

Single use plastic has long been vilified, prompting beverage makers to swap out plastic straws for paper alternatives. But fresh research warns paper straws in Europe contain ‘forever chemicals’, and that using such straws potentially contributes to human and environmental exposure of PFAS.

Research has now linked “forever chemicals” to testicular cancer, but U.S. military personnel exposed to PFAS are wondering what to do next.

The federal government is planning much higher treatment standards for public water supplies because of chemicals known as PFAS.

My total attention this week is on the town of Thurston in Steuben County, where the town board is poised to ban spreading treated sewage — also known as “biosolids”

SELAH, Wash.- After using a fire retardant that flooded the groundwater with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), the Yakima Training Center is making amends to Selah homes by installing filtration

Gov. Mike Dunleavy has vetoed House Bill 51, which would have banned the use of firefighting foams containing PFAS, a chemical hazardous to humans, even in small amounts. The bill

Single use plastic has long been vilified, prompting beverage makers to swap out plastic straws for paper alternatives. But fresh research warns paper straws in Europe contain ‘forever chemicals’, and that using such straws potentially contributes to human and environmental exposure of PFAS.