POESTENKILL, N.Y. (NEWS10)- The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), Department of Health, and Rensselaer County Department of Health will be holding two information meetings ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PFAS, often used in water-resistant gear, also find their way into drinking water and human bodies. (Photo by CasarsaGuru via ...

POESTENKILL – The town has received a state grant that will pay for 60 percent of the estimated $5.5 million cost to create a municipal water district that would serve the area around Algonquin Middle ...

New data reveals forever chemicals are in more tap water than previously thought - and the numbers keep climbing.

FORT PLAIN, N.Y. (NEWS10) – The Village of Fort Plain is suing numerous companies after PFOS and PFOA was discovered in a secondary water supply in 2020. The lawsuit targets companies that developed, ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on April 19 released the pre-publication final rule (Rule) designating perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) as “hazardous ...

The New York State Department of Health⁠ (NYSDOH, not the NYSDEC) recently updated its waterbody-specific fish consumption ...

Aug. 5—Fish in several bodies of water in Morgan, Lawrence and Limestone counties are contaminated with mercury and industrial chemicals that, if eaten, can harm humans, according to the annual fish ...