PFAS

A number of United States Representatives from Michigan Thursday applauded legislation that would regulate toxic chemicals in drinking water supplies.

A collection of Michigan environmental groups said Thursday that they had formed a coalition aimed at reducing the harmful effects of a group of chemicals…

A Michigan State University philosophy professor is on a federal committee charged with drafting guidance for doctors about a group of chemicals called…

All the things that go down the drain and end up at the waste water treatment plant are not removed there. Some of the industrial byproducts, agricultural…

Testing of private drinking wells near the decommissioned Marquette County Airport detected traces of PFAS in the water.The Michigan Department of…

State officials are continuing to test sites this summer at homes near Camp Grayling.This is the second summer the state officials have tested the well…

The Ecology Center and the Sierra Club had nine types of bagged fertilizer tested for PFAS. Eight had between 14 to 20 detectable kinds of PFAS. The…

Michigan’s state Department of Health and Human Services has begun testing some firefighters for PFAS in their blood.PFAS is a family of chemicals often…

U.S. Air Force officials say it will be “years” before they will consider a request by Governor Gretchen Whitmer to apply Michigan standards to the PFAS…

Health department officials suggest limiting the amount of Rainbow Smelt you eat from Lake Superior to one serving a month.These little fish are popular…