PFAS

When landowners spread sludge, PFAS can wash off fields into nearby rivers, leach into the groundwater, be absorbed by plants and pollute local drinking water.

PFAS is an umbrella term for a group of about 12,000 substances called “forever chemicals” that repel oil and water and do not break down in the environment.

PFAS chemicals have been found throughout the Ohio River. The Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet found the chemicals in 90% of rivers and lakes they sampled and in every fish they tested.

The same chemicals found in non-stick pans and fire-fighting foam have permeated the environment in Kentucky. These so-called “forever chemicals” have been found in lakes and rivers across the state, in fish, and in drinking water and are associated with adverse health impacts.

In June 2020, Kentucky’s Department for Environmental Protection sent an inspector to investigate a Teflon recycling company in western Kentucky. The…

Back in May of 2020, a food producer was looking at the city of Henderson for a $100 million investment in a city-owned industrial site near the Ohio…

High levels of PFAS chemicals have contaminated a plastics recycling company in Henderson, Kentucky, spreading through the air and water and likely…

Scientists are designing a new study to test for PFAS, so-called “forever chemicals”, along the entire length of the Ohio River. Concerns are mounting…

New testing by the Environmental Working Group has identified the presence of toxic fluorinated chemicals, broadly known as PFAS, in the tap water of…

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