DES MOINES, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - A bill advancing through the Iowa Senate would require fire districts and city councils in the state to consider switching to a soybean-based firefighting ...
A new soy-based firefighting foam offers a potential alternative for firefighters across the country who have long relied on specialized foams to extinguish dangerous fuel fires -- foams that often ...
A new Wisconsin bill could help fire departments purchase firefighting foam made from soybeans. This organic foam is a safer alternative to foams containing toxic "forever chemicals," or PFAS. Testing ...
New Mexico is the first state to classify aqueous film-forming foam as a hazardous waste. Monday's unanimous Environmental ...
Courtesy of the Washington Department of Ecology Firefighters sometimes use a special type of foam to put out fires caused by flammable liquids, like gases or solvents. But that foam contains “forever ...
A type of firefighting foam still kept on hand at some airports and known to contain high levels of PFAS — or “forever chemicals” — has become the target of a mandated cleanup effort in New Mexico, ...
TALLAHASSEE, FL – State lawmakers are weighing a ban on a highly effective but toxic foam widely used to suppress flammable-liquid fires that is leaking into water supplies and sickening people, with ...
Pasco Fire removed 140 gallons of PFAS-containing AFFF foam from the city. The Washington Department of Ecology runs statewide collection and 90 stations signed up. Pasco replaced the toxic foam with ...
File - A firefighter sprays foam on smoldering bush to help reduce re-flash fires after a blaze swept through Faulcombridge, 53 miles west of Sydney, in Australia Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013. (AP ...
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