By John-Michael Dumais Exposure to PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” is associated with an increased risk of mortality from cardiovascular disease, kidney cancer and testicular cancer,…
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The U.S. Department of Defense, which acknowledged it has a big mess to clean up, has spent years trying to grasp the scale of the…
Eating a single serving of freshwater fish can be the equivalent of drinking water contaminated with high levels of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS,…
By Tom Perkins Studies collectively examined nearly 30,000 samples over the past five years in ‘disturbing’ findings. Toxic PFAS chemicals were detected in every umbilical cord…
By Common Dreams By Kenny Stancil The World Health Organization’s (WHO) draft drinking water guidelines for two “forever chemicals” reveal a “striking and inappropriate disregard of the best…
By Megan Redshaw A new peer-reviewed Danish study found that pregnant women exposed to toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), or “forever chemicals,” during early pregnancy were associated…
New Detections of ‘Forever Chemicals’ in New York, D.C., Other Major Cities By Sydney Evans, David Andrews, Ph.D., Tasha Stoiber, Ph.D., and Olga Naidenko, Ph.D. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2020…