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Although useful, PFAS or highly fluorinated chemicals are associated with serious health harm and can remain in the environment forever.
Latest News
More cities are seeing PFAS pollution in drinking water. Here’s what Louisville found
1 Dec 2025 | NPR
At the Louisville Water Co., the team's calculations eventually showed that the December 2024 spike in GenX levels corresponded to publicly-available data from Chemours, about its chemical discharges into the Ohio River.
Officials make disturbing discovery after drawing blood from residents near US military base: 'We've had it'
29 Nov 2025 | Yahoo!News
What was most staggering in the discovery, however, was that 26% of plume area participants had PFAS levels in the highest concentration tier, meaning they were exposed to nearly ten times the amount of the common group.
The Trump administration is deregulating forever chemicals
28 Nov 2025 | Jacobin
Just this month, the EPA moved to approve two PFAS-based pesticides for use on crops, including tomatoes, peas, and lettuce. Despite the chemicals’ known dangers, the EPA created a new web page to assure the public of the “robust, chemical-specific process” that the agency uses to approve any pesticide.
Maine was first to ban spreading PFAS-contaminated sludge on farmland. Now sludge is filling up landfills.
28 Nov 2025 | Sentient Health
“When we think about policy change around PFAS in commercial products and our waste stream, we tend to focus on economic impacts,” said Adam Nordell, a farmer who had to close his operations a few years ago over high PFAS contamination and who now advocates about farmland contamination risks. “But at the end of the day, it’s a story about human health.”
The EPA is embracing PFAS pesticides. These are the health risks
26 Nov 2025 | Time
The approval of the two chemicals is part of a larger pattern by the Trump Administration to broaden the use of PFAS-containing pesticides on industrial and private farms across the country.
Latest Science
Lab-scale insights into the environmental fate of emerging contaminants from airport runoff
1 Dec 2025 | J Contam Hydrol.
Laboratory evidence indicates that only some contaminants in airport runoff are naturally diminished during contact with sediments, whereas PFAS remain largely persistent, raising concerns about whether soil aquifer treatment can adequately protect groundwater from these chemicals.
Non-destructive surface sampling of PFAS exposure on firefighter protective gears: Potential implications for occupational exposure
27 Nov 2025 | J. Hazard. Mater.
Firefighter turnout gear and self-contained breathing apparatus surfaces may contain notable levels of PFAS, particularly 6:2 FTS, indicating potential occupational exposure through skin contact and inhalation underscoring a need for improved monitoring while noting that minor PFAS signals in blanks may introduce some uncertainty.
Arsenic, Cadmium, Lead, Mercury, and PFAS Exposure During Pregnancy or Lactation and Respective Concentrations in Human Milk: Systematic Review
26 Nov 2025 | Environ Res
Evidence from 46 studies suggests that higher maternal exposure to lead, mercury, PFOA, and PFOS may be linked with higher concentrations of the same contaminants in human milk, potentially exposing infants during critical development windows.
Nationwide occurrence and flux estimates of PFAS in leachate from waste-to-energy sector: An emerging reservoir linked to short-term waste storage
25 Nov 2025 | Water Res
Chinese municipal solid waste incinerators leachates may act as a concentrated source of short-chain PFAS, particularly PFBA and PFBS, although membrane treatment removes most PFAS, the persistence or even increase of compounds like GenX suggests potential limitations that are important for environmental monitoring and policy decisions.
Bone marrow accumulation of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) predicts post-transplant relapse in acute myeloid leukemia patients and associated with T-cell dysregulation
25 Nov 2025 | Ecotoxicol Environ Saf
Higher early post-transplant levels of PFOA, PFOS, 9Cl-PF3ONS, and PFUnDA in the bone marrow of leukemia patients were linked to patterns of T-cell disruption associated with relapse, pointing to a potential environmental influence on immune recovery after a transplant.
Latest Policy
[Job] Policy Advocate
1 Feb 2026
NRDC is seeking a Policy Advocate to work with the Toxics team in any of our offices, preferably San Francisco or Washington, D.C.
EPA approves new pesticide with PFAS, sparking health concerns
28 Nov 2025
The EPA said in its approval documents that it found “no human-health risks of concern when used as directed.” Several experts dispute that conclusion and argue that the agency’s review did not fully account for how PFAS accumulate in soil and water or how they move into food.
Toy safety: Parliament adopts new rules to enhance child health protection
25 Nov 2025
The new rules also ban the intentional use of per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) and the most dangerous types of bisphenols.
[Public Comment] Prohibition of the use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, excluding fluoropolymers, in firefighting foams in Canada
25 Nov 2025
The main purpose of this consultation document is to inform interested parties and solicit comments on the proposed regulatory approach to prohibit the manufacture, import, use and sale of PFAS in firefighting foams for those PFAS that are not already regulated.
TSCA PFAS reporting- implications of EPA’s new statutory interpretation on articles
24 Nov 2025
EPA rationalizes that Congress “could have said so” if it desired the reporting requirements to extend to those who import articles containing PFAS.
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[Public Comment] EPA Seeks Comment in Effort To Loosen Decade of Forever-Chemical Reporting
Posted: 13 Nov 2025
The proposed change, announced on Monday, would loosen the reporting requirements manufacturers face when disclosing their use of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
[Job] Policy Advocate
Posted: 1 Feb 2026
NRDC is seeking a Policy Advocate to work with the Toxics team in any of our offices, preferably San Francisco or Washington, D.C.
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