{"id":128932,"date":"2021-10-13T11:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T18:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/study-finds-tens-of-thousands-of-forever-chemical-sites-in-us"},"modified":"2021-10-13T11:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T18:22:17","slug":"study-finds-tens-of-thousands-of-forever-chemical-sites-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/study-finds-tens-of-thousands-of-forever-chemical-sites-in-us","title":{"rendered":"Study finds tens of thousands of \u2018forever chemical\u2019 sites in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-finds-tens-of-thousands-of-forever-chemical-sites-in-us.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Toxic chemicals known as PFAS exist in almost 42,000 sites around the U.S., according to <a href=\"https:\/\/awwa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/epdf\/10.1002\/aws2.1252\">research<\/a> released on Tuesday by the Environmental Working Group.<\/p>\n<p>The research published in the American Water Works Association\u2019s journal Water Science found tens of thousands of potential point sources for per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances contamination around the country. Researchers analyzed data collected between August 2016 and March 2021. They found numerous previously unknown PFAS sites in samples of water downstream from manufacturing facilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t as of yet have great information on how frequently these different sources are contributing to the PFAS contamination we\u2019re finding in surface water and drinking water,\u201d lead study author David Andrews told The Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toxic chemicals known as PFAS exist in almost 42,000 sites around the U.S., according to research released on Tuesday by the Environmental Working Group. The research published in the American Water Works Association\u2019s journal Water Science found tens of thousands of potential point sources for per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances contamination around the country. Researchers analyzed data [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}