Full PFAS documentary coming this fall
26 Mar 2025 | International Association of Fire Fighters
The makers of BURNED: Protecting the Protectors will release a new documentary later this year that takes a deeper look at the dangers of PFAS. It’s called GENX: the Saga of Forever Chemicals.
Residue from human waste has long wound up as farm fertilizer. Some neighbors hate it
26 Mar 2025 | AP
The state’s Department of Environmental Quality has rules that require any biosolids used as fertilizer to meet certain criteria on levels of heavy metals and pathogen reduction requirements, but the agency acknowledged they aren’t currently testing for PFAS.
Two new families of PFAS-free solvents for next-generation batteries
26 Mar 2025 | Tech Xplore
The Amanchukwu Lab at UChicago PME wants to flip that script. In two recent papers, the team designed two new families of PFAS-free solvents that make ideal components for next-generation batteries.
NC State researcher finds high PFAS concentrations in sea foam along local beaches
25 Mar 2025 | Port City Daily
An expert panel discussion on Cape Fear region water contamination included new research finding high levels of PFAS in local sea foam samples.
‘This is dangerous’: New rule proposes PFAS changes, wouldn’t punish polluters
24 Mar 2025 | WECT 6
A new rule proposed by the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Environmental Management Commission would require companies to test for PFAS pollution and submit plans to reduce it, but wouldn’t create pollution limits or enforce penalties for contamination.
Even as French Island makes progress on safe drinking water, effects of PFAS contamination remain
24 Mar 2025 | Wisconsin Public Radio
Residents say they loved the taste of French Island water, look forward to drinking tap water again after new well comes in 2027.
PFAS bill protecting utilities companies passes in Indiana House and Senate
24 Mar 2025 | Great Lakes Now
According to earlier reporting from Indiana Public Broadcast News, Justin Schneider with Indiana American Water, said when customers sue utilities, the cost of those lawsuits gets passed back on to water utility customers.
Pilot study finds fiber helps reduce PFAS levels in the body
21 Mar 2025 | Environmental Health News
A Canadian clinical trial published in the journal Environmental Health, found some reductions of PFAS concentrations in people taking dietary fiber supplements for 4 weeks.
We put Minnesota’s new PFAS law to the test. Not everyone passed.
20 Mar 2025 | Minnesota Star Tribune
The Star Tribune used a screening test similar to what the MPCA would. Some results were above the level that could trigger a state inquiry.
Bennington region has the most severe PFAS contamination problem in the state, and new research finds it is getting worse
20 Mar 2025 | VTDigger
“We’re trying to give the community the best science so they can make sense of the issue and they can come together to seek reasonable solutions,” said a Bennington College professor.
What we know about newly discovered PFAS near Ann Arbor
19 Mar 2025 | Michigan Live
A recent discovery of forever chemicals linked to health problems is suspected to have originated from a decades-old manufacturing site near Ann Arbor.
Base acknowledges PFAS levels exceed EPA standards
19 Mar 2025 | Dayton Daily News
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is acknowledging that recent testing for PFAS chemicals show levels that exceed new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency maximum allowed levels.
Officials issue urgent warning about health risks of eating area's local fish — and the risks are greater than expected
18 Mar 2025 | Yahoo!News
If you enjoy fishing in the Potomac or Anacostia rivers, you may want to think twice before cooking up and eating your catch.
A New Report Found Heavy Metals and PFAS in Baby Formulas — Here’s What to Know
18 Mar 2025 | Food & Wine
In the report, the nonprofit reviewed 41 different powdered infant formulas and found potentially harmful levels of arsenic and lead. They also found PFAS in nearly all infant formulas tested, with one product containing both BPA and acrylamide.
Michigan's newest PFAS threat: Contamination from household septic systems
17 Mar 2025 | Bridge Michigan
But a state analysis of water from 70 neighboring wells told another story: Some residents, schools and businesses may have unwittingly tainted their own drinking water, through years of flushing common household products down the drain and into septic systems that allowed tainted sewage to quietly infiltrate the aquifer.