When the small plane he was riding in flew over a closed textile factory several months ago, Bill Stangler saw two slime-covered waste lagoons on the edge of the Broad River north of Columbia. The ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Pollution leaking at a closed textile plant in Union County may threaten Columbia's drinking water. Thousands of Columbia residents rely on the Broad River for their drinking water.

On a placid day three decades ago, men from a local textile factory spent hours at the O’Neal family’s farm, pitching a plan they said could save money on the cost of fertilizing crops. The idea was ...

It is clear EPA is targeting industrial wastewater dischargers as the primary source of PFAS in streams and lakes throughout the United States with near-term goals of reducing PFAS loadings on those ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The City of Columbia has filed a lawsuit against dozens of companies over the amount of forever chemicals found in the city’s water supply. According to the lawsuit, more than 40 ...

Several U.S. state PFAS laws, including bans and warning label mandates, went into effect Jan. 1, with many affecting textiles.

A major textile manufacturer has pledged to permanently stop using so-called “forever chemicals” at its plant in northeast Georgia to resolve a lawsuit over pollution in Alabama’s Weiss Lake. The ...

An environmental chemistry laboratory at Duke University has solved a longstanding mystery of the origin of high levels of PFAS—so-called “forever chemicals”—contaminating water sources in the ...