toxic chemicals

Settlement payments from chemical companies are helping cities pay for expensive PFAS removal technology. But local leaders say the dollars often fall short of covering the full costs to clean up drinking water.

Settlement payments from chemical companies are helping cities pay for expensive PFAS removal technology. But local leaders say the dollars often fall short of covering the full costs to clean up drinking water.

The. state's Department of Natural Resources said they will have every water system in the state tested for "forever chemicals" by the end of 2025.

The product of the reaction is fluorine, which still isn't healthy for humans, but may be easier to dispose of than PFAS.

A roundup of regional headlines from the KBIA Newsroom.

For more than twenty years, when Columbia’s pipes need to be replaced, the city has rehabilitated them instead through a method scientists now say could put workers in danger.

Meatpacking waste sludge is spread as fertilizer on farmland and can wash into waterways.

Missouri state appeals court has ruled that a jury should decide whether a former subsidiary of Monsanto that manufactured toxic chemicals is responsible…