Brunswick airport’s toxic foam spill highlighted the need to transition to safer alternatives. A Brunswick legislator is ...
Refineries process and produce large volumes of flammable materials. In order to mitigate the risk of fires, many rely on aqueous film forming foam or AFFF. This "fire fighting foam" is stored onsite ...
Barrels of firefighting foam were collected around New Hampshire and sent to Ohio. Last month, remnants of the foam returned ...
and environmental impacts associated with the use of aqueous film forming foams (AFFF) containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), there is a need to develop fluorine-free foam alternatives ...
Toxic, potentially cancer-causing firefighting foam, like what spilled in Brunswick last year, is still being used in some ...
Before treatment, the firefighting foam, known as Aqueous Film-Forming Foam or AFFF, was great at fighting tough fires ... term concerns on the part of our fire departments about liability ...
Last summer, 10,000 gallons of collected AFFF was shipped from New Hampshire ... Much of the initial work involves fire-fighting foam from fire departments, including huge stockpiles of the ...
Dan Ankeles, D-Brunswick, said the Aug. 19 fire suppression system malfunction that flooded the Brunswick Landing community with 51,450 gallons of AFFF foam is ... a decade fighting Clean Harbors ...
A new Alaska state law bans using the per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) based firefighting foams. The law, adopted ...
January is firefighter cancer awareness month. Discover the health risks firefighters face from exposure to asbestos and ...
Dan Ankeles, D-Brunswick, said the Aug. 19 fire suppression system malfunction that flooded the Brunswick Landing community with 51,450 gallons of AFFF foam is ... a decade fighting Clean Harbors ...