PFAS Resources

  1. Purdue Innovation Takes Aim At Water Contamination, Powered By Industry Partnership 5/20/2025

    Professors from multiple Purdue locations, cross-disciplinary students and industry have all joined together with a singular focus: safer water.

  2. How EPA's Focus On Testing Strategies & Methodologies Are Critical For Improved Water Quality 5/16/2025

    In alignment with the recent federal initiatives, Birchtech’s RSSCT Analysis Design Center provides a practical, cost-efficient solution for utilities to enhance PFAS detection.

  3. The Uneven Fight Against PFAS In Rural vs. Urban Water Systems 5/15/2025
    Drinking water systems across America face a mounting PFAS threat with starkly different capacities to respond. Large urban utilities typically have ample resources to detect and remove these persistent chemicals from water supplies, while small rural systems operate with tight budgets, skeleton crews, and minimal technical support.
  4. New Jersey American Water And Salem City Celebrate Groundbreaking Of New Water Infrastructure And PFAS Treatment System 5/14/2025

    New Jersey American Water and the City of Salem, today, broke ground on a major new infrastructure project that will enhance water quality and public health for thousands of local residents in Salem, NJ. The event marked the start of construction on a state-of-the-art PFAS removal system at the Salem Water Treatment Plant — a critical investment to help ensure safe, clean and reliable drinking water service for communities served by the plant.

  5. EPA Announces It Will Keep Maximum Contaminant Levels For PFOA, PFOS 5/14/2025

    The EPA has announced it will uphold the current enforceable limits for PFOA and PFOS at 4 parts per trillion in drinking water. However, the agency plans to rescind regulations for four other PFAS compounds.

  6. NIH To Award $8M For New USC Superfund Center To Research And Address 'Forever Chemicals' 5/14/2025

    A team of scientists from Keck School of Medicine of USC and USC Viterbi School of Engineering has been awarded an $8M, five-year grant from one of the National Institutes of Health to launch a Superfund Research Program Center where they will study environmental contamination from “forever chemicals,” or PFAS, which are used to make multiple household items from cookware to furniture.

  7. Veolia Completes Most Comprehensive Industry Testing To Date On PFAS Waste Incineration 5/13/2025

    Veolia has published the waste management industry’s most comprehensive testing to date on the incineration of PFAS compounds. The tests demonstrated that high temperature incineration is a proven and reliable disposal solution for high concentrations of targeted PFAS, destroying greater than 99% of targeted substances, including up to 99.9999% of PFOS and PFHxS.

  8. Sealing The Future: IDTechEx Examines PFAS-Free Materials For Seals & Gaskets 5/12/2025

    Even with a new, more "industry-friendly" administration in the White House, regulator debate on "forever chemicals", or PFAS, continues to evolve across the United States.

  9. PFAS Tap Water Protections For Almost 19 Million Californians At Risk If EPA Weakens Limits 5/7/2025

    Nearly 19 million Californians could lose critical protections against the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS in their tap water if the Environmental Protection Agency rolls back its science-based PFAS drinking water standards, according to a new Environmental Working Group analysis.

  10. From Michigan To California, H2Plus Expands PFAS Destruction Breakthroughs Nationwide 5/6/2025

    H2Plus, a Colorado-based water technology company, is gaining national momentum with successful PFAS destruction projects in Michigan, Tennessee, and California. Backed by new funding and growing demand, the company is expanding deployment of its patented mobile treatment units in communities and industries seeking permanent solutions to the “forever chemicals” crisis.