Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jeff King has served on the volunteer fire department in Corydon, Kentucky, for over 30 years. He is well aware of the dangers of ...

Fire departments across Maryland’s Eastern Shore are still storing stockpiles of banned firefighting foam years after the ...

In dark corners and supply closets in firehouses across Maryland sit gallons upon gallons of a toxic firefighting foam that ...

State Rep. Brian Munroe said his district in Warminster Township has been decimated over the years by toxins from "forever ...

Firefighting foams with PFAS are used to contain highly flammable fires like this that can't be extinguished with water. A state program meant to protect firefighters from harmful PFAS in firefighting ...

A firefighter holds a handful of SoyFoam. The firefighting foam is PFAS free, biodegradable and made with a crop that's abundant in Ohio: soybeans. Outside the Harrison Township Fire Department, in ...

Firefighters across Colorado protect people from devastating fires, but the materials sometimes used to put out the flames could hurt the very communities they're saving. Those materials we're talking ...

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 ...

WATERTOWN, S.D. — As the soybean industry continues to develop innovative soy-based products, one new partnership between the United Soybean Board and Georgia-based company, Cross Plains Solutions, ...

Jeff King has served on the volunteer fire department in Corydon, Kentucky, for over 30 years. He is well aware of the dangers of the job — including one that may be hiding in the supplies he and his ...

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