WASHINGTON Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (NY) and Rep. Dan Kildee (MI-5) introduced the PFAS Firefighter Protection Act into the Senate and the House this week. The bill aims to ban firefighting foams made with a class of toxic chemicals commonly referred to as PFAS.
everything in plastic bags to containers. if that turned up in the foam on marshall s boots but not in the foam at the crime scene, wouldn t that exclude marshall as a suspect? the detective protested phthalates must have gotten in the boots because they were stored in a plastic container all those years. but to the scientists, facts are facts, those two pieces of foams did not share the same chemical signature. to hear her say one has phthalates and one doesn t, i have to tell you, it was devastating. not your best day. not the best day. because it was the piece we needed to do something more than we had from 1984. without that connection to the boot, i don t think we have a case. coming up, investigators make one last-ditch efforts to talk to their suspect. they track him down here leading a surprising life when dateline continues. dateline continues
While foam is certainly desirable in the bathtub or on beer, preventing foam - for example in industrial processes - is a much-discussed topic. Often, oils or particles are added to liquids to pre .
(Photo courtesy of Bohol PDRRMO) MANILA - The number of confirmed deaths due to Typhoon Odette has climbed to 75, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) reported on Friday. In its New Year's Eve update, the NDRRMC also confirmed that 74 were injured and 12 went missing due to the typhoon. Eight of the confirmed dead were from Mimaropa, 46 from Western Visayas, two from Central Visayas, 15 from Eastern Visayas, and four from Northern Mindanao. Still undergoing validation are reports of 330 deaths, 1,073 injured, and 70 missing. "Odette"-affected families were placed at 1,139,148, which is equivalent to 4,457,846 persons residing in 6,526 barangays in Mimaropa, Bicol, Western Visayas, Central Visayas, Eastern Visayas, the Zamboanga Peninsula, Northern Mindanao, the Davao Region, Soccsksargen, Caraga, and the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). Meanwhile, 1,325 evacuation centers are sheltering and aiding 83,960 families whi