PFCs are extremely stable and persistent in the environment and migrate easily. They have been found globally (even in remote locations) in water, soil and air, as well as in food, breast milk, umbilical cord blood, and human blood serum. They also concentrate in the food chain. […]
Scientists are concerned that the allowable levels of toxic PFAS – known as “forever chemicals” – in drinking water are too high. […]
PFAS are a family of thousands of human-made substances – nicknamed “forever chemicals” because they do not break down in the environment – that have been widely used since the 1940s in a huge range of everyday consumer products and industrial processes. […]
Two men have been told to pay more than £240,000 for running an illegal scheme which saw raw sewage, abattoir washings and other substances “injected” into the Cornish countryside. […]
A quarry company has been fined after part of a tributary of the River Bann was polluted by discharge from one of its pipes. […]
Magistrates have ordered the company to pay £34,000 in the case brought by the Environment Agency […]
Persimmon Homes has been fined more than £430,000 after pleading guilty in relation to several river pollution incidents in Monmouthshire, South Wales, in 2019. […]
Somerset councilors have called for rivers to be cleaned-up after reports of “poo islands” forming in waterways. […]
Raw sewage was dumped into England’s open waters 372,533 times in 2021, according to new figures released by the Environment Agency […]
The international coffee company says it will eliminate PFAS from all US packaging by the end of 2022, and in stores abroad in 2023. […]
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