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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.
Wausau Council rejects PFAS payout deal, citing losses and lack of clear plan
26 Nov 2025 | Wausau Pilot & Review
The future payment stream of $2,037,766 would be discounted to ‘present value’ and reduced further by fees, leaving the city with a final lump-sum payment of $1,571,135.
‘Toxic Soup’: PFAS and other contaminants surged in French Broad River after Helene
24 Nov 2025 | NC Health News
Among the chemicals detected were 11 types of PFAS, including PFOA and PFOS, which the study found at levels exceeding the Environmental Protection Agency’s maximum contaminant levels of 4 parts per trillion.
PFAS pollutants found in organs of endangered leopard cats
22 Nov 2025 | The Asahi Shimbun
High concentrations of synthetic chemicals have been detected in Tsushima leopard cats, an endangered species found only on one island between Kyushu and South Korea, a research team said.
Michigan: We can’t afford to look for all PFAS. Homeowners on their own
21 Nov 2025 | Bridge Michigan
The Michigan PFAS Action Response Team doesn’t have a certain dollar figure at which it decides to pull the plug on a source investigation. Rather, it depends on the data they’re able to collect and whether that data points investigators in a direction worth pursuing.
Miracle-Gro class action claims organic soil and fertilizer products contain PFAS forever chemicals
21 Nov 2025 | Top Class Actions
The Miracle-Gro class action lawsuit accuses Scotts of failing to disclose the presence of PFAS because this would influence purchasing decisions to the company’s financial detriment.
California farms applied millions of pounds of PFAS to key crops, study finds
19 Nov 2025 | The Guardian
California farms applied an average of 2.5m lb of Pfas “forever chemicals” per year on cropland from 2018 to 2023, or a total of about 15m lb, a new review of state records shows.
NYC bill would phase out PFAS from FDNY gear, test firehouse water by 2028
19 Nov 2025 | Fire Rescue 1
The legislative package also calls for free annual PFAS-exposure health screenings for active firefighters and twice-yearly exams for FDNY retirees.
EPA Seeks Comment in Effort To Loosen Decade of Forever-Chemical Reporting
14 Nov 2025 | Newsweek
Specifically, if PFAS make up 0.1 percent or less of an item or mixture, the company that makes it would be exempt from the reporting requirement.
Tokyo says no to Okinawa’s funding request for ‘forever chemical’ cleanup
14 Nov 2025 | Stars and Stripes
State Minister Masahisa Miyazaki said the ministry cannot pay for plant maintenance, including filter replacement, under the current legal framework
State to offer free water filters to residents of La Cieneguilla, La Cienega for PFAS
13 Nov 2025 | Sante Fe New Mexico
A recent study found that one in three parcels in La Cieneguilla and La Cienega were contaminated with PFAS, and almost 170 parcels had contamination levels above federal standards.