perfluorochemicals (PFCs) News

Study Warns of Volunteer Firefighters’ Levels of ‘Forever Chemicals’

Volunteer firefighters โ€” who comprise more than 65 percent of the U.S. fire service โ€” have higher levels of “forever chemicals” in their bodies than the general public. A Rutgers study, which was published in the International Journal of Environmental …

3M Says it Underreported Chemical Discharge in Tennessee River

For more than three years, 3M Co. underreported its discharge of a class of potentially toxic chemicals into the Tennessee River by a factor of 1,000, according to a letter sent by a 3M official to regulators at the Alabama …