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A University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food and Environment graduate is helping the people of New Orleans. Chastity Adkins is a technical manager for Propex, a geotextiles company whose products helped secure the area's levees. Adkins’ work helped keep Hurricane Ida, which is already projected to be on the top 10 list of costliest hurricanes, from doing further damage.
Firefighters face hurdles in quest for PFAS-free gear By Ariel Wittenberg | 07/13/2021 5:50 PM GMT Firefighters who want to wear protective gear without toxic chemicals face complicated hurdles. Claudine Hellmuth/E&E News (illustration); Jay Heike/Unsplash (left photo); Tobias Rehbein/Unsplash (right photo); Clean and Healthy New York (text); National Academies Press (chemical compound) Firefighters want the option to wear protective gear that doesn’t contain toxic chemicals. The only problem? The very garment manufacturers whose gear contains PFAS sit on the standard-setting committee t...