A vote in the House has not yet been scheduled, but if passed, it would make Oregon the 16th state to essentially outlaw PFAS ...

Firefighters then rinsed the trucks twice, driving them around with water sloshing in the tanks, and emptied the byproducts into the same totes as the foam. The department replaced the AFFF with ...

That is about one-tenth of the 50,000 gallons that Maine estimates can be found in the trucks, tanks and sprinkler ... Aqueous film-forming foam, or AFFF, is used to fight high-intensity fuel ...

Given the widespread contamination, persistence, and environmental impacts associated with the use of aqueous film forming foams (AFFF) containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), there is ...

Efforts to get harmful “forever chemicals” out of firefighting foam used in Oregon are closer to being realized.

Oregon was the first state to direct all airports to phase out a common PFAS-laden foam, AFFF foam, which has largely been replaced by a non-PFAS containing foam called P3, according to Karl ...