or offer for use fire-fighting foam that contains an intentionally added PFAS substance. Use and Discharge: A person, municipality, or state agency must not discharge or use AFFF for training ...

A new Alaska state law bans using the per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) based firefighting foams. The law, adopted ...

The FAA ended 2024 by issuing a National Part 139 CertAlert (No. 24-11) concerning Output Based Testing After Completion of Fluorine Free Foam ...

They’re called “forever chemicals” but the program destroying PFAS in New Hampshire firefighting foam shows that a better ...

The Battelle lab is testing a variety of different materials, including cow liver, pasta, and fishing line, for PFAS ...

Discover what Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF) is and its dangers, including environmental impact and health risks due to PFAS chemicals. Learn about its use and safety concerns in fire suppression.

Refineries process and produce large volumes of flammable materials. In order to mitigate the risk of fires, many rely on ...

they gave some AFFF (made to military specifications, high in PFAS) to municipal departments around the state. “Smaller departments always had access to that ‘mil-spec’ foam,” one fire ...

Firefighting foam with PFAS was ... rekindle following live fire training.” Given the property’s history of AFFF use and the many health risks associated with PFAS, Osgood was concerned ...

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 ...

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 ...

That’s a question New Hampshire officials have been trying to answer for years, as they looked to dispose of thousands of gallons of old firefighting foam filled with PFAS – so-called “forever ...