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The Defense Department has failed to keep pace with the rising costs of PFAS cleanup at its current and former bases, where chemicals have leached into groundwater, the Environmental Working Group said in a new report.

Scientists have found  ‘extremely high levels’ of organic fluorine, a marker of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), in 18 popular types of contact lenses. PFAS are called ‘forever chemicals’ because they take a long time to break down. They are also known to cause cancer, liver damage, and reproductive problems

The American Chemical Society's Environmental Science and Technology journal recently published a study, "A Self-Collection Blood Test for PFASs: Comparing Volumetric Micro-Samplers with a Traditional

Harvard-led team finds standards don’t account for major source of drinking water contamination.

The Commonwealth has stopped short of admitting liability in a class action settlement, that will see  $132.7 million split among 30,000 claimants who have suffered from toxic PFAS contamination from firefighting foam.

The Federal Clean Water Act and EPA's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System regulations implementing the Act prohibit the discharge of pollutants. All one needs to prevail in a PFAS Clean Water Act Citizen Suit is wastewater containing a detectable concentration of PFAS.

PFAS are chemicals used in cosmetics and personal care products that can persist in the environment for a very long time. New regulations seek to ban PFAS, but Canada needs to take further actions.

SINGAPORE: The acting president of the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) apologised on Friday (May 12) after a curt response to a comment on Singapore's 7-0 defeat by Malaysia at the SEA Games.

Much larger corn crops in Argentina and the U.S. will be driving down global prices and spurring international trade in the 2023-24 marketing year, according to the USDA’s latest World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimate report.

Saint-Gobain, Honeywell to pay for PFAS damage in Hoosick Falls, with $10M for new water system, $30M for expenses, $5M for natural resource loss.