Destroying forever chemicals ignites N.Y. town’s ‘worst fears’
26 Jun 2020 | Bloomberg Law
When Joe Ritchie was a kid growing up near an upstate New York incinerator, it wasn’t unusual to find black soot on windowsills around the house. But in the last few years, there’s been a new odor in the neighborhood, that smells as if someone has been dumping household chemicals in a tub and lighting them on fire.
High chemical levels in water near Decatur landfill concern environmental group, ADEM
25 Jun 2020 | Alabama Political Reporter
The most recent PFAS and PFOS tests showed 51,000 ppt levels.
PFAS bills sent to Whitmer’s desk
24 Jun 2020 | The Alpena News
It would mandate that fire chiefs report incidents in which PFAS-containing firefighting foams are used to Michigan’s pollution emergency alert system. The state environmental department would have to accept the foam concentrate free of charge and properly dispose of it.
EPA finalizes PFOA imports rule
24 Jun 2020 | Politico
The rule, issued under the Toxic Substances Control Act, is largely aimed at closing loopholes rather than enacting major new changes.
House lawmakers want NDAA to provide more oversight on military housing, vehicle crashes and PFAS
22 Jun 2020 | Stars and Stripes
The draft for the House version of the fiscal year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act requires that any spill or use of PFAS firefighting foam at any military installation be reported to Congress within 48 hours of when the deputy assistant secretary of defense for environment is notified.
EPA issues final rule giving it authority over manufacturing, sale of products containing PFAS
22 Jun 2020 | Construction & Demolition Recycling
This action means that the EPA is prohibiting companies from manufacturing, processing or importing products containing certain long-chain PFAS without prior EPA review and approval.
DOD must do more to address PFAS pollution
19 Jun 2020 | Bloomberg Law
Military service members and their families are especially at risk from forever chemicals because of the DOD’s 50-year use of fire-fighting foam made with PFAS.
Michigan collects 30k gallons of toxic PFAS firefighting foam
17 Jun 2020 | MLive
Foam is solidified into a cement-like state before disposal. It was originally headed for U.S. Ecology’s hazardous waste landfill in Belleville, but it has been re-routed to Idaho because the region receives less rainfall and landfills there do not generate as much leachate.
Hundreds of airports nationwide are still using firefighting foam linked to cancer
15 Jun 2020 | FOX56
While in 2018, Congress directed the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to stop requiring the use of fluorinated firefighting foam by 2021, but until the FAA comes out with an alternative some airports will continue to use it.
PFAS maker 3M pays utility’s legal fees in state regulatory fight
12 Jun 2020 | Bloomberg News
Corporate giant and PFAS maker 3M Co. is underwriting a legal fight by a New Hampshire water utility to have tough new regulatory rules thrown out, an unusual partnership that has alarmed local environmental activists.
State Legislature passes legislation prohibiting incineration of AFFF with PFAS
11 Jun 2020 | The Record
This New York state level action would solidify the one-year moratorium on incineration unanimously adopted by the Cohoes Common Council on April 28.
Wisconsin leads 22-state coalition on PFAS
10 Jun 2020 | Urban Milwaukee
States are urging the agency to regulate more PFAS substances and consider regulating PFAS as a class of chemicals.
PFAS cleanup backers face unexpected foe: water utilities
9 Jun 2020 | Bloomberg Law
After decades of inaction, the federal government has gotten serious about cleaning up PFAS, a class of compounds known as “forever chemicals” that have been linked to health problems and inhabit the bloodstream of nearly every American
San Francisco Bay region issues risk-based screening levels for PFAS at cleanup sites
8 Jun 2020 | JDSupra
The Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board also created a strategy for identifying and prioritizing potential sites for PFAS testing, as well as additional investigation and cleanup. Sites with industrial, manufacturing or firefighting facilities/processes that have a history of using PFAS will be prioritized.
Johnson Controls pushes back on DNR order to test more wells for ‘forever chemicals’
8 Jun 2020 | Milwaukee journal sentinel
Tyco Fire Products, a subsidiary of Johnson Controls, started testing firefighting foam with perfluorinated chemicals at the training center in Marinette in 1962 and continued the practice until late 2017 when testing was moved indoors, where the chemicals could be captured and transported to a different site for disposal.