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Water sources across state contain potentially hazardous levels of toxins under new plan By Conrad Swanson This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Dozens of water sources across Colorado previously thought to be safe would now violate the federal maximum contaminant level for PFAS, or toxic “forever chemicals,” ...

City asks “forever chemical” producers pay to clean contaminated surface and groundwater  By Conrad Swanson This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Thornton filed a lawsuit Monday in South Carolina District Court against dozens of companies and people that produce PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” claiming the ...

By Carl Zimmer © The New York Times Co. A team of scientists has found a cheap, effective way to destroy so-called forever chemicals, compounds that pose a global threat to human health. The chemicals — known as PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — are found in a spectrum of products, a...

  Chemicals dumped into Sand Creek, South Platte River By Conrad Swanson The Denver Post A substantial portion of PFAS — or forever chemicals linked to cancer and birth defects — found last year in Sand Creek and the South Platte River can be traced to the Suncor Energy oil refinery, a new ...

    By Ismail Turay Jr. © The New York Times Co. DAYTON, OHIO » The Federal Aviation Administration is urging the nation’s airports to use firefighting foam that contains socalled “forever chemicals” only during emergencies. The agency wants to cut back on the foam, which is used to f...

CHEMICALS By Bruce Finley The Denver Post Toxic “forever chemicals” likely are used and discharged into water at 501 sites in Colorado and at least 29,900 across the United States, according to a new analysis by an environmental advocacy nonprofit. The Environmental Working Group unveiled th...

By The Associated Press, from The Denver Post eEdition, July 16, 2020   Colorado’s Water Quality Control Commission is putting new limits on a class of chemicals common in everything from nonstick pans to firefighting foam. Colorado Public Radio reports the commission voted unanimously Tuesda...

The New York Times, WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Thursday finalized a rule to strip away environmental protections for streams, wetlands and groundwater, handing a victory to farmers, fossil fuel producers and real estate developers who said Obama-era rules had shackled them with onerous...

From Participant (Spotlight), DARK WATERS tells the shocking and heroic story of an attorney (Mark Ruffalo) who risks his career and family to uncover a dark secret hidden by one of the world’s largest corporations and to bring justice to a community dangerously exposed for decades to deadly chemica...

Shared from the 3/7/2019 The Denver Post eEdition CHEMICALS IN WATER Costs slow reform Pentagon tells House committee that addressing toxic compounds would cost $2 billion for DOD By Ellen Knickmeyer
The Associated Press WASHINGTON» Cleaning up and protecting U.S. drinking water from a class of...