A new MOF removes 99% of PFOA — a harmful “forever chemical” — from water in just minutes, while doubling as a real-time ...

When water flows through the material, it snags and traps PFOA molecules, effectively removing the forever chemical. In lab ...

University of Utah researchers have developed a material that addresses an urgent environmental challenge: the real-time ...

University of Utah researchers develop a dual-functional material that efficiently removes and detects PFOA from water.

University of Utah researchers have developed a material that enables the removal and real-time detection of ...

The breakthrough performance of this new material for PFOA removal was reported today in the Journal of American Chemical Society. 1 The new material, CD-PFAS, was developed in the lab of Dr.

The global health agency’s draft guidance recommends a limit of 100 parts per trillion (ppt) of either PFOA or PFOS in drinking water, and it suggests a total cap of 500 ppt for combinations of ...

EPA’s Designation of PFOA and PFOS as Hazardous Substances Under CERCLA On April 19, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) designated two per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS ...

Emissions rise from the Norlite plant on Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018, in Cohoes, N.Y. Owners of the state's only commercial hazardous waste incinerator are announcing a $30 million project to upgrade ...

COHOES – The company that was burning toxic PFOA and PFOS compounds near a housing project did so unbeknownst to the city in 2018 and most of 2019, officials said on Tuesday.