The Trump EPA is approving pesticides classified as forever chemicals despite health warnings, while contamination from PFAS—persistent synthetic compounds linked to cancer—spreads across firefighter training sites, farms, and breast milk samples globally. Communities and states are scrambling to detect and address the environmental and health fallout.
·EPA approves new pesticide pesticides despite scientific evidence they may be forever chemicals, rejecting the classification
·Firefighter training site in Montgomery County identified as major PFAS contamination source affecting local water supplies
·PFAS detected in all breast milk samples in Dutch study, raising alarm about widespread human exposure from birth
·New EPA departures from Biden-era cancer risk assessments for PFAS-contaminated farmland under Trump administration
·North Carolina allocates $15 million to detect PFAS near fire stations where training sites have caused groundwater pollution
drawn from The Hill, WUSA9, DutchNews.nl, GeekWire · updated 13h ago