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The new executive director of the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority, Dan Stevenson, says it plans to turn the aging ...

The city said the chemical manufacturers sold and distributed PFAS-containing firefighting foam to the U.S. Navy and Air ...

Despite having an initial completion date of September 2023, the tanks are still not operational due to "water intrusion" in their leak detection system. The tanks' owner-occupier, US-based ...

Efforts to get harmful “forever chemicals” out of firefighting foam used in Oregon are closer to being realized. (0 Ratings) ...

Oregon was the first state to direct all airports to phase out a common PFAS-laden foam, AFFF foam, which has largely been replaced by a non-PFAS containing foam called P3, according to Karl Koenig, ...

with Arcadis, titled "Solutions for Managing Aqueous Film-Forming-Foam- (AFFF-) Impacted Infrastructure” details the enormity of the AFFF problem, outlines the immense challenges of treating AFFF ...

While efforts to phase out the use of AFFF are ongoing, U.S. Navy bases may request waivers to continue using this toxic foam into 2026. In 1967, a fuel tank ignited and led to a series of explosions, ...

Firefighting foam, also known as aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF), is a substance used to extinguish high-intensity fires. Unfortunately, exposure to PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), which ...

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