As state environmental and health leaders wait to learn how much of Connecticut’s money could be set aside their PFAS Action Plan, there was a push Wednesday for federal funds and guidance from Congressman John Larson. “EPA needs to step up and make a regulatory determination,” Lori Mathieu with the state Department of Public Health said. The town hall...

Town leaders from Connecticut met with Rep. John Larson on Wednesday to ask for help and to push for federal funds to deal with PFAS, a chemical that exists in some firefighting foams and other items.

  Congress has approved funding to develop new drinking water standards that would check for contamination from the chemicals known as PFAS. PFAS is short for per-and-polyfluorinated alkyl substances, a group of man-made chemicals that have been used since the 1940s across the world, including right here in the United States. There is evidence that the most-studied PFAS chemicals, PFOA…

2 p.m. Saturday June 8, 2019: It came in as an activated fire alarm call, firefighting foam containing PFAS had been discharged after a malfunction from the foam system at a Signature Flight Support hangar at Bradley International Airport. Initially, airport officials thought the foam had been contained to airport property but hours later it surfaced in the Farmington River…

PFAS is a group of man-made chemicals that have been used since the 1940s across the world, including the United States. These chemicals do not break down, and have been tied to can lead to adverse reproductive, developmental, liver and kidney effects.

PFAS chemicals found in firefighting foam can cause serious birth defects and health effects.

Six months after tens of thousands of gallons of firefighting foam spilled into the Farmington River in Windsor from Bradley, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal announced Friday a potential federal requirement to phase out firefighting foam containing PFAS at all military bases. “The United States military is going to take the lead and provide a model for the nation in...

PFAS, known as forever chemicals, have been linked to health risks ranging from developmental issues in fetuses and infants to certain forms of cancer.

Firefighters trained at Cherry Brook Primary School in Canton and sprayed foam containing the potentially harmful chemicals called PFAS.

Tests are underway to see if the water supply at a primary school in Canton was contaminated with a potentially dangerous firefighting foam.

The Connecticut Airport Authority is now working with state building officials to determine if firefighting foam systems using PFAS in certain airport hangars can be replaced with water.

The Connecticut Airport Authority held a meeting on Wednesday and talked about what is being done to minimize the use of firefighting foam containing PFAS.

The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection has spent $600,000 on the environmental cleanup following the B-17 crash.

For the first time since the firefighting foam spill in June, the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection is making it clear that it disagrees with a draft report from Signature Flight’s consultant that no drinking water wells should be tested for PFAS.

The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection has recommended testing some wells for PFAS in Windsor and Windsor Locks.

Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-New Haven) is calling for a ban on all food packing products that contain the chemical PFAS, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.

U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro is calling for a ban on all products that contain PFAS.

Gov. Ned Lamont announced Monday that the state will form a task force to look into a chemical contained in a firefighing foam at Bradley Airport that was spilled into the Farmington River.

Gov. Ned Lamont on Monday announced the formation of a state task force to examine the presence of PFAS chemicals in Connecticut.