SACRAMENTO – Tap water tasting or smelling a little different recently? The City of Sacramento says it's probably nothing to worry about. City of Sacramento Utilities staff say around this time of ...
The manufacturer Solvay Specialty Polymers USA has been emitting unregulated PFAS chemicals at a New Jersey facility for more than two decades and contaminating water supplies, state regulators allege ...
New federal drinking water standards, which the Environmental Protection Agency will implement on June 25, could save thousands of lives across the Midwest and drastically curtail Americans’ exposure ...
Update: On Nov. 10, the state of New Jersey filed a lawsuit against Solvay Specialty Polymers USA, alleging in part that the company has been using replacement PFAS at its manufacturing facility for ...
No level of two common PFAS compounds is safe in drinking water over a lifetime of exposure, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday as it revised drinking water health advisories ...
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Worried about plastic pollution in your tap water? Try boiling in it, a new study suggests. Boiling tap water can destroy at least 80 percent of three of the most common plastic compounds that can be ...
In the wake of cancer-causing chemicals found in groundwater nearby, and a looming visit by famed activist Erin Brockovich, tap water at three beachside schools again found a compound at extremely low ...