Lawmakers passed several amendments on PFAS, including one that would legally designate them as hazardous substances.
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PFAS substances linked to cancer have likely leached into drinking water that supplies metropolitan D.C.
At least eight states either have policies in place or are pursuing policies related to PFAS chemicals.
Public health watchdogs said the government must take swift action to limit human exposure to PFAS chemicals.
Common sense legislation calls for all PFAS chemicals to collectively be regulated because they are all deemed toxic.
Despite mounting evidence that PFAS are harming people’s health, the EPA has yet to regulate the chemicals.
The U.S. military generally refuses to pay for cleaning up the contamination it has caused.
These photos document the widespread fire-fighting training on military bases that is contaminating groundwater.
Studies conducted in the late 1970s and early 1980s were kept under wraps by chemical companies as pollution spread.
Everyone assumed that blood contained just one type of fluoride, a naturally occurring form that health officials added to drinking water to prevent cavities.