PFOA and PFOS have been found in the drinking water of 200 million Americans, including 6 out of 10 Illinoisans.

The Environmental Protection Agency says it will roll back limits on several types of what are known as forever chemicals in ...

The EPA will rescind much of the Biden administration's first nationwide drinking water standard aimed at protecting people ...

The administration said it wants to rescind and reconsider whether limits are needed for four PFAS that chemical companies ...

The Environmental Protection Agency will rescind and reconsider drinking water standards for four chemicals that have been ...

In northwest Georgia, the city of Calhoun installed temporary filters as a result of a lawsuit filed by the Southern Environmental Law Center last year. Calhoun has reported nondetectable levels of ...

Amid restructuring, the agency is likely to gut its research program for evaluating the health risks of toxic chemicals.

The Trump administration on Wednesday announced plans to rescind and postpone rules limiting “forever chemicals” in drinking ...

In part of the Trump administration’s continued push to overturn the actions of its predecessors, the Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday that it would weaken Biden-era standards limiting ...

The EPA said Wednesday it plans to weaken and reconsider federal guidelines on toxic "forever chemicals" in America's ...

The change from the federal agency does not affect the state’s efforts to continue work already underway to reduce levels of PFAS at contaminated sites, the state’s director of drinking water ...

The IRIS database is the “gold standard for health assessments ... If IRIS is eliminated, experts say, EPA research on toxic chemicals will continue—but the work will likely be siloed to ...