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The Environmental Protection Agency says its designating two “forever chemicals” used in cookware, carpets and firefighting foams as hazardous substances

WASHINGTON: The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday designated forever chemicals that have been used in cookware, carpets and firefighting foa...

The designation means releases of long-lasting chemicals known as PFOA and PFOS at or above a certain quantity would have to be reported

PFOA and PFOS remain in the environment because they do not degrade over time.

The EPA is designating some toxic industrial compounds used in cookware, carpets and firefighting foams as hazardous substances under the so-called Superfund law.

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“This is a giant uncontrolled experiment on the public,” Leo Trasande, a researcher at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

Routine testing is rare and most people don’t know how much PFAS is coursing through their circulatory system.

Something as simple as drinking tap water is exposing millions of Illinoisans to toxic chemicals that build up in human blood, cause cancer and other diseases and take years to

Two of the most studied PFAS are so toxic there is effectively no safe level of exposure, the U.S. EPA declared last month.