News Briefs: California Finds Widespread PFAS Contamination in Wells

Recent news out of California is serving as another part of a growing concern nationwide surrounding per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), as the state recently learned nearly 300 drinking water wells and other water sources have traces of the chemicals. The state tested more than 600 wells this year and found pockets of contamination in 86 water systems serving approximately 9 million Californians. “This has the potential of being an enormously costly issue both on the health side as well as on the mitigation and regulatory side,” Kurt Schwabe, an environmental policy professor at UC Riverside, tells Los Angeles Times.