How to Use forever chemical in a Sentence

forever chemical

noun

• There are thousands of forever chemicals, but the EPA has now put standards on six of the most common and most studied.
  — USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2024
• Here’s how that approach resulted in the Newport, a hybrid shoe that’s free of forever chemicals.
  — Outside Online, 9 Sep. 2024
• Simply put, if the goal was to spread forever chemicals as broadly as possible across the nation, there would likely be no more efficient way of doing so than putting them in pesticides.
  — Nathan Donley, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2024
• California bill would ban forever chemicals by 2030, the state’s most ambitious move against the toxic substances.
  — Alan Ohnsman, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
• It is also polluted by forever chemicals that 3M once dumped upstream.
  — Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 20 May 2024
• Essentially, as many as 5,000 chemicals the rest of the world recognizes as PFAS would no longer be considered toxic forever chemicals.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Feb. 2024
• Essentially, as many as 5,000 chemicals the rest of the world recognizes as PFAS would no longer be considered toxic forever chemicals.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 12 June 2024
• With the Environmental Protection Agency setting national limits for forever chemicals in drinking water for the first time this past April, the big question is how to get rid of them.
  — Amy Feldman, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
• Organofluorine compounds—the umbrella term for forever chemicals—are everywhere: not just in clothing or other consumable commodities, but in the ocean, the soil, even the human body.
  — Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 9 Aug. 2024
• The pervasiveness of these forever chemicals have been making headlines as more are being discovered in common food and drink items, as well as personal care products.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 8 Jan. 2024
• Water systems are spending millions of dollars to filter out PFAS, the long-lasting compounds commonly known as forever chemicals, which have been linked to cancer and other health problems.
  — John Keilman, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2023
• Scientists are just beginning to understand how and to what extent forever chemicals harm human health.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 20 Apr. 2024
• The researchers plan to continue research into the potential sleep disruptions of these forever chemicals.
  — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 6 Oct. 2024
• After years of reporting on forever chemicals, ProPublica reporter Sharon Lerner had one question that still nagged at her.
  — ProPublica, 24 May 2024
• People are also exposed to these forever chemicals through food, clothing, household products, dust and several other sources.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 10 Apr. 2024
• Vermont’s experience with responding to PFAS may prove instructive as more consumers and politicians take note of forever chemicals.
  — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Apr. 2024
• And the presence of forever chemicals isn’t exactly purity.
  — Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 5 May 2024
• The drink company was humbled even more on Tuesday, after a class-action lawsuit alleged Prime contains excessive caffeine and forever chemicals.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 27 Apr. 2024
• California has recently banned the use of the forever chemicals in cosmetics, clothing, food packaging, cribs and firefighting foam.
  — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2024
• Today, how millions of Americans are exposed to forever chemicals.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2024
• This past summer, the Environmental Protection Agency disclosed that harmful forever chemicals were found in the tap water of 26 million Americans, and a class of toxic flame retardant chemicals was found in a wide sampling of breast milk.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 8 Jan. 2024
• This study also comes at the tail-end of a legislative session in which lawmakers attempted to cut protections from toxic PFAS chemicals, otherwise known as forever chemicals — though that bill did ultimately die.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Mar. 2024
• These super-strong bonds also make tracing forever chemicals difficult.
  — Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 9 Aug. 2024
• Colorado officially has a ban on forever chemicals, joining a growing list of states taking action to eliminate the chemicals linked to cancer from a wide array of products, including cosmetics, carpets and food packaging.
  — Natasha Lovato, USA TODAY, 9 May 2024
• Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita is taking a hard stance on toxic forever chemicals.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Apr. 2024
• This swap retains the water-repellant behavior of hydrocarbons while making the molecules highly resistant to breaking down through natural processes—hence the forever chemicals moniker.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Apr. 2024
• But scientists and environmentalists note forever chemicals and other toxics can persist in the fluid.
  — Janet Wilson, USA TODAY, 3 May 2024
• And Miami has previously recorded some of the highest levels of forever chemicals in the country, according to a 2020 report published by advocacy nonprofit Environmental Working Group.
  — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2024
• Related Articles Gore-Tex maker polluted some Marylanders’ drinking water with ‘forever chemicals,’ officials say.
  — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 15 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024