When Lawrence and Penny Higgins of Fairfield, Maine, learned in 2020 that high levels of toxic chemicals called PFAS tainted ...

Many clinicians remain unaware of the health risks linked to PFAS, short for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, ...

Maine was among the first states to begin extensive water and soil testing and to try to limit further public exposure to ...

The rapid growth of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) litigation in the United States is forcing courts, regulators, ...

A lawsuit filed by the Penobscot Nation and conservationists pushes back against the DEP’s approval to add 12 million cubic ...

The "Safer Beauty Bill Package" would ban the most toxic ingredients in everyday cosmetics and create protections for the ...

Tribal leaders and the Conservation Law Foundation are opposing the state's public benefit determination of the proposed ...

"Will doom us to decades or even hundreds of years more of exposure." Scientists outraged as US cuts threaten food supply and ...

The new law adds additional permit application requisites for prospective new landfills and expansions for existing dumps, ...

Researchers at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health found that certain kinds of ...

University of Maine researchers are creating a low-cost PFAS testing tool for farmers that delivers faster results via ...

Vivien Leigh and photojournalist Derek Thayer share some of the most recent research and studies to better understand PFAS chemicals and their impacts.