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EAST PROVIDENCE, RI — June 18, 2025 — The East Providence Fire Department has become the first in the United States to ...
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A new study from the San Francisco Estuary Institute revealed the ugly truth behind fish caught in the San Francisco Bay.
The East Providence Fire Department has become the first department in the country to use non-PFAS turnout gear. According to the City of East Providence, the gear is the first to fully exclude the ...
East Providence has reportedly become the first city in the country to purchase and outfit its fire department with PFAS-free turnout gear.
East Providence has become the nation’s first fire department to begin using turnout gear free of harmful PFAS chemicals, ...
But the people who knowingly assume those risks in order to save others’ lives never bargained for becoming sick from the ...
The small Yorkshire market town of Bentham found out a year ago that it has the highest known concentration of PFAS pollution in the UK. PFAS are so-called ‘forever chemicals’ – some of which can ...