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More: Federal PFAS restrictions could help New Mexico fight pollution The man-made chemicals have turned up in water systems large and small, from those serving a few thousand customers to over ...
The federal government initially only agreed to repay costs to bring PFAS levels down to 70 ppt, though a state law introduced in 2019 by former State Rep. Todd Stephens found a way to remit the ...
The federal government in January 2019 filed a complaint in opposition to language in a state permit for Cannon Air Force Base that included demands the DOD clean up the PFAS contamination as ...
The type of PFAS remediation technology selected is often a reflection of the PFAS contamination levels and the PFAS signature (i.e. the combination of short- and long-chain PFAS substances present) in conjunction with the site-specific water chemistry and cross contaminants present in the liquid stream.
Topsoil runoff from farm, central Iowa (2011). Water pollution in the United States is a growing problem that became critical in the 19th century with the development of mechanized agriculture, mining, and manufacturing industries—although laws and regulations introduced in the late 20th century have improved water quality in many water bodies. [1]
In the United States there are no federal drinking water standards for any of the perfluorinated alkylated substances as of late 2020. [21] The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a non-enforceable health advisory for PFOA in 2016. The agency's health advisory level for the combined concentrations of PFOA and PFOS is 70 parts ...
PHOENIX — An Arizona city is suing the federal government, claiming toxic PFAS "forever chemicals" released from a nearby Air Force base are causing ongoing contamination of the city’s ...
Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) (conjugate base perfluorooctanesulfonate) is a chemical compound having an eight-carbon fluorocarbon chain and a sulfonic acid functional group, and thus it is a perfluorosulfonic acid and a perfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS). It is an anthropogenic (man-made) fluorosurfactant, now regarded as a global pollutant.