(WLUK) -- Some departments are starting to fight fires with soybean-based foam as an alternative to chemical-based products. It's also helping Wisconsin farmers. “It's a new concept for firefighting ...
DES MOINES, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - A bill advancing through the Iowa Senate would require fire districts and city councils in the state to consider switching to a soybean-based firefighting ...
Jeff King has served on the volunteer fire department in Corydon, Kentucky, for over 30 years. He is well aware of the dangers of the job — including one that may be hiding in the supplies he and his ...
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - Soybeans could soon have a promising new market as a safer firefighting solution, replacing traditional foam that relies on toxic chemicals that don’t break down. PFAS from ...
Courtesy of the Washington Department of Ecology Firefighters sometimes use a special type of foam to put out fires caused by flammable liquids, like gases or solvents. But that foam contains “forever ...
A type of firefighting foam still kept on hand at some airports and known to contain high levels of PFAS — or “forever chemicals” — has become the target of a mandated cleanup effort in New Mexico, ...
Efforts to get harmful “forever chemicals” out of firefighting foam used in Oregon are closer to being realized. The state Senate voted nearly unanimously Tuesday to pass Senate Bill 91 and ban ...
A firefighter holds a handful of SoyFoam. The firefighting foam is PFAS free, biodegradable and made with a crop that's abundant in Ohio: soybeans. Outside the Harrison Township Fire Department, in ...
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