Forever Chemicals

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Making use of some common and inexpensive reagents, scientists have successfully devised a method to get rid of two major classes of "forever chemicals". Called PFAS or perfluoroalkyl…

How embryonic exposure to certain common pollutants may put people at risk for diabetes and other metabolic health conditions later in life is examined by researchers at the University of…

WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — Five years after the state's initial investigation of GenX turning up in the Cape Fear River, Gov. Roy Cooper and his environmental chief unveiled a…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina state regulators would set maximum acceptable levels of “forever chemicals” — like those discharged for decades into the Cape Fear River…

The chemicals, called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), are a group of man-made chemicals present in a wide range of consumer and industrial products. PFAS are sometimes called…

(no scientific estimate of their half-life/ time taken for 50% of the chemical to disappear) and rather serve to bioaccumulate in bodies over time. This, in turn, contributes to certain ,…