NC attorney general announces formal investigation into PFAS contamination
10 Aug 2020 | WECT
Attorney General Josh Stein announced a formal investigation into the manufacturers and other entities responsible for the PFAS contamination in North Carolina.
Veto keeps personal injury lawyers from making millions on no-injury cases
10 Aug 2020 | Legal Newsline
New Hampshire’s governor has vetoed legislation that would have allowed those exposed to hazardous or toxic substances such as PFAS to make a claim for medical monitoring damages.
States begin to regulate PFAS in water discharges
7 Aug 2020 | JD Surpa
These new monitoring requirements will provide additional data on the presence of PFAS.
Report: Big Mac cartons, Whopper wrappers, and other fast food packaging found to contain PFAS “forever chemicals”
7 Aug 2020 | The Counter
The new report by Mind the Store / Toxic-Free Future is the first to look at a broader range of specific fast food burger chains across 3 regions—New York State, Washington State, and the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
New state PFAS standards put Livingston Airport on cleanup list
6 Aug 2020 | WHMI
The new Michigan drinking water and groundwater standards resulted in 42 new sites being added.
In the absence of federal standards, states step in to regulate PFAS
6 Aug 2020 | JD Surpa
New state standards place greater burdens on drinking water systems that are frequently without the resources to address existing maintenance and infrastructure improvement needs.
Goodbye to some PFAS in food packaging
5 Aug 2020 | C&EN
Chemical manufacturers are planning to gradually ramp down sales of certain short-chain PFAS used as grease-proofing agents on fast food wrappers, take-out containers, and other paper-based food packaging, the FDA announced July 31.
[Blog] FDA takes an important step by phasing out paper greaseproofing agents containing a specific PFAS
4 Aug 2020 | EDF
FDA secured voluntary agreements with three companies, Archroma, Asahi Glass, and Daikin, to phase-out products based on 6:2 FTOH. The action affects 15 food contact substance notifications approved by the agency between 2006 and 2016.
FDA announces voluntary phase out of PFAS used in food packaging
3 Aug 2020 | Food Poisoning Bulletin
Three manufacturers have agreed to a 3 year phase out of PFAS by gradually eliminating their sales of compounds that contain 6:2 FTOH for use as food contact substances. This phase out will begin in 2021. It may take up to 18 months after that three year time frame to exhaust existing stocks of products.
Preliminary study: State’s highest levels of ‘forever chemicals’ found in Cape Fear’s raw water supply
2 Aug 2020 | Port City Daily
The high level was attributed to PFAS chemicals coming from discharges at the Chemours Fayetteville Works plant.
Settlement with DuPont likely on PFAS liability, Chemours says
31 Jul 2020 | Bloomberg Law
The Chemours Co. and DuPont likely will reach a settlement in a lawsuit where Chemours claims its former parent saddled it with millions of dollars to clean upper- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, in the environment, the company’s chief executive officer said Friday.
Maine looks to be first in nation with PFAS statute of limitations
28 Jul 2020 | National Law Review
The PFAS statute of limitations bill is being heard on an emergency basis after growing public outcry earlier in 2020 when a few milk farms learned that their milk was tainted with PFAS.
Toxic ‘forever’ chemicals pose risks to Rhode Islanders
27 Jul 2020 | ecoRI News
PFAS are in a significant portion of the state’s drinking water. More than 40 percent of the schools tested had levels above the new recommended standard of 20 ppt.
3M-Decatur enters into consent order with state to clean up industrial pollutants
26 Jul 2020 | Times Daily
3M Co. has entered into a consent order with the Alabama Department of Environmental Management that requires the company to clean up "forever chemicals" from its Decatur plant and from numerous waste sites in Morgan and Lawrence counties, ADEM announced today.
With ‘trepidation,’ Michigan settles Wurtsmith PFAS cleanup dispute
26 Jul 2020 | MLive
A major bone of contention has been around the Air Force’s reluctance to comply with a low, 12 ppt state cleanup threshold for PFOS at the point where contaminated groundwater vents to surface water bodies.