A firefighter holds a handful of SoyFoam. The firefighting foam is PFAS free, biodegradable and made with a crop that's abundant in Ohio: soybeans. Outside the Harrison Township Fire Department, in ...

Firefighting foam, used at airports and military bases, has been identified as a source of toxic PFAS chemicals. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Fire Administration via Iowa Capital Dispatch) Buy Photo The ...

Cal Fire is offering free firefighter camps for girls ages 15 to 17 again this summer and applications are due by Jan. 31. The four-day camps are scheduled June 22-25 in Redding and June 29-July 2 in ...

BLACKSBURG, Va. (WDBJ) - In recent years, PFAS—also known as “forever chemicals”—have gained attention due to new bans and growing awareness of their health impacts. What you might not know is that ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. Jeff King has served on the volunteer fire department in Corydon, Kentucky, for ...

ATLANTA, Dec. 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc. (PESI) (the “Company”) today announced a joint distribution agreement with Enforcer One, LLC (“Enforcer One”), a ...

As the world phases out use of PFAS-based foams in firefighting for the safer but less effective fluorine-free foams (F3), a new Charles Darwin University (CDU) project is aiming to increase the ...

Jeff King has served on the volunteer fire department in Corydon, Kentucky, for over 30 years. He is well aware of the dangers of the job — including one that may be hiding in the supplies he and his ...