As the world phases out use of PFAS-based foams in firefighting for the safer but less effective fluorine-free foams (F3), a ...
Barrels of firefighting foam were collected around New Hampshire and sent to Ohio. Last month, remnants of the foam returned ...
Brunswick airport’s toxic foam spill highlighted the need to transition to safer alternatives. A Brunswick legislator is ...
They’re called “forever chemicals” but the program destroying PFAS in New ... cancer in some fire departments. In 2019, New Hampshire banned the use of the foam, known as AFFF or “A3F ...
The spill of firefighting foam containing PFAS at the former Brunswick Naval Air station last summer is prompting a closer ...
Toxic, potentially cancer-causing firefighting foam, like what spilled in Brunswick last year, is still being used in some ...
A new Alaska state law bans using the per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) based firefighting foams. The law, adopted ...
Before treatment, the firefighting foam, known as Aqueous Film-Forming Foam or AFFF, was great at fighting ... of our fire departments about liability,” he said. Destroying the PFAS in that ...
Like many states, Maine is struggling to determine how to dispose of its stockpile of toxic aqueous film-forming foam, or AFFF ... and fighting fuel fires. But even trace amounts of some PFAS ...
“From the standpoint of PFAS-free products, the DoD has accelerated development of alternative fire-fighting foams (F3 – Fluorine Free Foam) to replace aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF), which ...
Like many states, Maine is struggling to determine how to dispose of its stockpile of toxic aqueous film-forming foam, or AFFF ... and fighting fuel fires. But even trace amounts of some PFAS ...