Cost of dealing with PFAS problem sites ‘frightening’, says Environment Agency

Exclusive: EA warns it lacks budget to tackle England's rising number of potential forever chemicals' locations

The number of sites identified as potentially having been polluted with banned cancer-causing forever chemicals" in England is on the rise, and the Environment Agency (EA) says it does not have the budget to deal with them.

A former RAF airfield in Cambridgeshire and a fire service college in the Cotswolds have joined a chemicals plant in Lancashire and a fire protection equipment supplier in North Yorkshire on the agency's list of problem sites" for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).