A container of a soybean-based firefighting foam is displayed during a demonstration of the product in West Fargo, North Dakota, on Sept. 10, 2024. (Jeff Beach | North Dakota Monitor) In the search ...

A bill advancing through the Iowa Senate would require fire districts and city councils in the state to consider switching to ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. Jeff King has served on the volunteer fire department in Corydon, Kentucky, for ...

(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 ...

A new soy foam is eliminating cancer-linked chemicals for firefighters.

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 ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — Pennsylvania lawmakers could soon ban a dangerous chemical present throughout the state. The State House unanimously passed a bill Tuesday that would ban per- & ...

TALLAHASSEE, FL – State lawmakers are weighing a ban on a highly effective but toxic foam widely used to suppress flammable-liquid fires that is leaking into water supplies and sickening people, with ...

MADISON, Wis. — Researchers in Wisconsin have developed a way to make Wisconsin-grown soybeans into a firefighting foam, and they want to make grants available to see if even soy can prevent wildfires ...

Firefighters spray fire suppressant foam to douse flames on a tanker truck in a simulated oil-spill fire during a drill on Wednesday, May 7, 2014, in Albany, N.Y. For about 20 years, Julie Cassidy ...

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 ...