The town of Camden and Mid-Coast Solid Waste Corporation are suing manufacturers of toxic firefighting foam for creating and ...

The Pentagon is expected to request an extension to an Oct. 1 deadline set by Congress to stop using firefighting foam that contains hazardous "forever chemicals" at more than 1,500 facilities and in ...

Alan Robidas was grateful as his team prepared containers of firefighting foam at the New Hampshire Fire Academy to be collected and destroyed. The foam, long used by firefighters nationwide to ...

The rental car facilities have fire suppression equipment that must be removed because it contains toxic "forever chemicals." ...

Revive Environmental CEO David Trueba holding samples of AFFF (pictured right) and the result after processing the the PFAS annihilator (pictured left): water. An Ohio company is the first in the U.S.

Pasco Fire removed 140 gallons of PFAS-containing AFFF foam from the city. The Washington Department of Ecology runs statewide collection and 90 stations signed up. Pasco replaced the toxic foam with ...

Airports are often tied to PFAS exposure because of Aqueous Film Forming Foam, which was frequently used in firefighting ...

The 2005 test of a fire suppression system at Ellsworth Air Force Base installed by Rapid Fire Protection did not release firefighting foam containing chemicals linked to cancer, thyroid disease, ...

OSCODA, Mich. -- The wind-whipped water on Michigan's Van Etten Lake washes up daily reminders of an environmental tragedy set into motion decades ago and still unfolding. Foamy suds on the surface ...

In 2021, Connecticut passed a law banning fluorinated firefighting foams, known as aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF), that contains large quantities of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The ...

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) – For decades, fire departments across Illinois used a firefighting foam, known as Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF), which turned out to be toxic and linked to cancer. The use of ...