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Disaster Risks and PFAS Remediation Will Shape Environmental Policy
19 May 2025 | NCSL
States face ongoing challenges around disaster mitigation and resilience, PFAS remediation and foreign ownership of U.S. agricultural land.
Trump officials want to cut limits of PFAS in drinking water – what will the impact be?
15 May 2025 | The Guardian
The EPA is attempting actions that violate the law, some say, and Biden administration’s progress can’t be fully undone.
3M to pay New Jersey up to $450M in landmark ‘forever chemical’ settlement
14 May 2025 | The Hill
3M will pay the state of New Jersey up to $450 million over the next 25 years, resolving claims regarding widespread contamination from “forever chemicals.”
EPA will weaken rule curbing ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water
14 May 2025 | The Washington Post
The Environmental Protection Agency said it will reconsider drinking water standards for four chemicals that have been linked to a range of illnesses.
They drove to the Capitol to testify on a bill and got a grueling lesson in Texas democracy
9 May 2025 | The Texas Tribune
The group from Johnson County waited 18 hours to testify at a hearing that started at 1 a.m. on a bill to limit toxic chemicals in fertilizer.
PFAS breakthrough: ‘forever chemical’ banned under global treaty
8 May 2025 | SwissInfo
International negotiations in Geneva have led to a major breakthrough: the addition of a new "forever chemical" to the Stockholm Convention's blacklist. It marks another crucial step in the global effort to regulate what many now call the "poison of the century”.
Sewage sludge fertilizer from Maryland? Virginians say no thanks.
8 May 2025 | The New York Times
To protect its food and drinking water, Maryland has started restricting the use of fertilizer made from sewage sludge. At the same time, a major sludge-fertilizer maker, Synagro, has been applying for permits to use more of it across the state border, on farms in Virginia.
Map Shows Where Beers Are Most Contaminated With Chemicals: Study
7 May 2025 | Newsweek
A new study by researchers at RTI International has found that several American beers contain measurable levels of "forever chemicals," with the source traced primarily to municipal drinking water used in the brewing process.
Toxic PFAS detected in groundwater around NC landfills
7 May 2025 | WRAL News
New data from the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality shows PFAS “forever chemicals” are turning up in groundwater around landfills across the state, sometimes at levels thousands of times higher than the federal drinking water limit.
States Step In On PFAS Drinking Water Regulations
5 May 2025 | The National Law Review
To prepare for further regulatory rollbacks from the EPA that could impact PFAS regulation, states have begun looking to introduce laws that would put in place PFAS protections that could protect the state’s waters against any potential federal rollbacks.
For Trump, Chemicals in Straws Are a Crisis. In Water, Maybe Less So.
5 May 2025 | The New York Times
An administration document aimed at eradicating paper straws highlights the dangers of PFAS chemicals. Their presence in tap water nationwide hasn’t gotten the same attention.
Navy addressing 'forever chemicals' leaking from Pensacola-area bases to private water wells
5 May 2025 | Pensacola News Journal
In response to new national drinking water standards, the U.S. Navy is preparing to address PFAS in private drinking water wells near Naval Air Station Pensacola, Corry Station and Saufley Field beginning in May.
EPA plan on PFAS cleanup may let polluters off the hook
2 May 2025 | Environmental Health News
The Trump administration's new PFAS roadmap is raising red flags among public health experts who fear it could weaken protections and slow the cleanup of toxic chemicals in drinking water.
Stantec to design largest PFAS treatment system in Northwestern U.S.
2 May 2025 | WFM
The City of Vancouver, Washington, has selected Stantec to design a treatment system to remove PFAS from a high-volume water station — with the goal of providing cleaner, more reliable drinking water for the community.
Chemical makers knew the harms. It didn’t matter.
2 May 2025 | The Washington Post
In “They Poisoned the World,” investigative journalist Mariah Blake writes about the campaign to hide the dangers of forever chemicals.