{"id":39960,"date":"2025-08-16T14:30:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T18:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/16\/toxic-forever-chemicals-found-in-water-supply-cleanup-could-cost-millions\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T14:30:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T18:30:34","slug":"toxic-forever-chemicals-found-in-water-supply-cleanup-could-cost-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/16\/toxic-forever-chemicals-found-in-water-supply-cleanup-could-cost-millions\/","title":{"rendered":"Toxic &#8220;Forever Chemicals&#8221; Found in Water Supply \u2014 Cleanup Could Cost Millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JlPrlvBNzmA?cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Communities across the country are confronting a growing crisis involving &#8220;forever chemicals&#8221; \u2014 man-made substances linked to cancer and other serious health risks. One city is now taking legal action, alleging that manufacturers knowingly contaminated its water supply. While the water currently meets safety standards, officials say major upgrades will be required to comply with new federal regulations by 2031. Local leaders argue the cost of cleanup shouldn&#8217;t fall on taxpayers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communities across the country are confronting a growing crisis involving &#8220;forever chemicals&#8221; \u2014 man-made substances linked to cancer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":39961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upstate-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}