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EPA focused on 4 promising treatments to destroy PFAS
12 days ago | By Wood TV
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - A report from an environmental nonprofit organization estimates between 2 and 20 million acres of American farmland are contaminated with PFAS because of sewage sludge. Now, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is researching four methods to pull the chemicals out of sewage sludge and other contaminated material in hopes to slow down PFAS pollution.
PFAS - or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances - is a giant group of chemical compounds. PFAS were first developed in the 1940s and incorporated into all sorts of products in the years that followed. You may have heard...
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