When the UK joined the EU in the 1970s it was known as the 'dirty man of Europe'. The i Paper looks at the data to see if anything has changed ...

After elevated levels of “forever chemicals” or PFAS were found in the water at Rountree jail, a new water filtration system is expected.

The University does bale and sell cardboard directly to paper mills, Environmental Services Director Bill Nelligan wrote to ...

Perpetua Resources, the mining company planning to dig in the mountains outside McCall, promises to clean up the site — including the damage done by decades of previous mining.

The manmade chemicals, which are tied to a host of health ailments, have contaminated sources of drinking water across ...

Proposed legislation on chemical contamination does not consider what might be exorbitant future costs for treatment and remediation.

the contamination crisis continues to grow partly due to the toxins’ staying power in the environment and the inadequacy of U.S. chemical regulations. When one PFAS came under scrutiny ...

PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” are toxic substances that break down very slowly in the environment. North Carolina has some of ...

THE COST OF CLEAN WATER:With new 'forever chemical' standards set, how will NC utilities clean up their water? Efforts at the state level in North Carolina to deal with the contamination also are ...

The study, published in Nature, found that people living in areas with water contaminated by forever chemicals (also known as PFAS, meaning per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances) had up to a 33% ...