The Brown Daily Herald9d
New bill proposes to extinguish PFAS chemicals in firefighter protective gear by 2027
On March 6, the Rhode Island House of Representatives passed a new bill aiming to ban “the manufacture, sale or distribution” ...
Badger Herald2y
DNR, DATCP kick off program to collect, dispose of PFAS-containing firefighting foam
The Appleton Fire Department doesn’t have a good replacement for the PFAS-containing firefighting foam yet. Firefighters use the foam in Class B incidents, or petroleum-based fires, which are rare.
Portland Press Herald24d
Bills to find and destroy Maine’s toxic firefighting foam win over legislative committee
The Environment and Natural Resources Committee unanimously endorsed bills to catalog, collect and dispose of Maine's stockpike of toxic firefighting foam. Spurred on by last year’s Brunswick ...