Drinking water contamination from perfluorinated chemicals is a known concern for communities near industrial sites in the U.S. where the chemicals were once produced. Contamination that extends ...

Dublin, May 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Perfluorinated Type Plastic Optical Fiber Market by Transmission Mode (Multi-Mode Fibre, Single-Mode Fibre), Type (Diffusion Type, Extrusion Type), ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is strengthening regulation of perfluorinated polymers that contain perfluoroalkyl sulfonates (PFAS), perfluoroalkyl carboxylates (PFAC), fluorinated alcohols ...

A sign at Clark's Marsh in the Huron National Forest south of the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Oscoda Township warns of consuming native fish species like bass, bluegill and perch. The marsh has ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... FOUNTAIN — The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday unveiled a national plan for dealing with two of the hundreds of toxic chemicals that have ...

Perfluorinated compounds are environmental toxins that are found in fire extinguishing foam and water-repellent textiles and, for example. In a new study, a research team led from Uppsala University ...

Engineers now report selective breakdown of a particularly stubborn class of PFAS called fluorinated carboxylic acids (FCAs) by common microorganisms. Under anaerobic conditions, a carbon-carbon ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced five perfluorinated chemicals used as greaseproofing agents have been voluntarily removed by their manufacturers. Following recent studies the ...

Researchers have discovered a new organic reaction that selectively converts only a specific carbon-fluorine (C-F) bond in perfluorinated compounds to other functional groups. This is expected to lead ...

In a new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2021.200041 , Xuezhi Zhang, Boyue Yang, Junfeng Jiang, Kun Liu, Xiaojun Fan, Zhaozhu Liu, Min Peng, Guanlong Chen and Tiegen Liu ...