Read the full article by Andrei Lonescu (earth.com)
“PFAS – short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances – are so common that they’ve earned the nickname ‘forever chemicals.’ They’re in rain jackets, dental floss, and even the sticky side of a bandage. Too often, they’re also in drinking water.
For years, U.S. contamination maps showed clusters of problem spots in places like California, Michigan, and New England. But those dots didn’t necessarily reveal where PFAS actually are – they only marked where testing had happened.
Now, researchers at Northeastern University’s PFAS Project Lab have redrawn the picture. Their new analysis suggests that while roughly 2,200 sites have confirmed contamination, as many as 80,000 more are likely polluted but untested.