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Baltimore sues companies over ‘forever chemical’ pollution in waterways and water system
News
7 Nov 2022 | The Baltimore Banner
Baltimore sued a slew of chemical companies Friday, accusing them of “knowingly” allowing hazardous PFAS chemicals to contaminate its waterways and water system.
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Baltimore’s water system contains PFAS chemicals at levels above new EPA health advisory
News
24 Jun 2022 | The Baltimore Sun
Baltimore’s water system, which serves 1.8 million homes and businesses in the city and Baltimore County, contains measurable levels of so-called ‘forever chemicals’ that the federal Environmental Protection Agency said last week pose health risks even at minute levels.
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Putting the Brakes on Toxic “Forever Chemicals” in Maryland
Policy
10 May 2022
On April 21, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan signed into state law SB0273/HB0275, the George “Walter” Taylor Act, which curtails the introduction of new PFAS into the environment.
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Maryland Issues First Fish Consumption Advisory Because of PFAS
News
17 Oct 2021 | Baltimore Sun
It’s the first time the state has issued such an advisory as a result of elevated levels of PFAS in seafood.
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Maryland to Resume Use of Pesticide After EPA Testing Doesn’t Detect PFAS
News
3 Oct 2021 | The Baltimore Sun
EPA tested several Permanone 30-30 samples for 28 different varieties of PFAS using a new method called the “oily matrix” test.
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Forever Chemicals’ From Navy Lab Flowing Into the Chesapeake Bay
News
30 Aug 2021 | The Southern Maryland Chronicle
On the base, the Navy reported that shallow monitoring wells in the fire suppression testing area detected up to a 175,000 ppt combination of PFOS, PFOA and one other compound.
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Officials Work to Keep ‘Forever Chemicals’ Out of Baltimore’s Water
News
24 Aug 2021 | Baltimore Magazine
New Abell Foundation report shows a mixed bag for city drinking water.
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United States: PFAS Consumer Products Regulation
News
13 Aug 2021 | Mondaq
An overview of enacted and proposed PFAS state laws and regulations.
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[Press Release] Detection of toxic PFAS chemicals increases to 2,790 communities
News
20 Jul 2021
The latest detections are based on new testing completed in Alabama, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, South Carolina and Vermont.
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New study finds PFAS in bottled water, as lawmakers call for federal limits
News
17 Jun 2021 | Consumer Reports
'Purified' bottled water was less likely than 'spring' water to contain the potentially dangerous compounds
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We sampled tap water across the US – and found arsenic, lead and toxic chemicals
News
31 Mar 2021 | Consumer Reports and the Guardian
A nine-month investigation by the Guardian and Consumer Reports found alarming levels of forever chemicals, arsenic and lead in samples taken across the US. Almost every sample tested had measurable levels of PFAS.
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‘Forever chemicals’ found in Chesapeake seafood and Maryland drinking water
News
17 Nov 2020 | Bay Journal
States like New Jersey urged its anglers to limit consumption of recreationally caught fish with comparable PFOS levels to what was found in the Potomac River striped bass.
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[Press Release] MDE releases report on sampling for PFAS in St. Mary’s River surface water and oysters
News
5 Oct 2020 | EIN Presswire
The Maryland study found no detections of PFAS in oysters. Surface water concentrations ranged from 2.3 to 13.5 ng/L. Starting this year, MDE will begin to sample for PFAS in recreationally fish.
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Navy causing widespread contamination of oysters, fish and crabs
News
15 Apr 2020 | LA Progressive
New Jersey became the first state to issue advisories for the consumption of fish containing PFAS chemicals in 2018 and several states have followed suit.
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Comparative analysis of the toxicological databases for 6:2 fluorotelomer alcohol (6:2 FTOH) and perfluorohexanoic acid (PFHxA)
Science
25 Feb 2020 | Food Chem. Toxicol.
This article summarizes a comparative analysis of the toxicological effects of PFHxA and 6:2 FTOH and finds that 6:2 FTOH is significantly more toxic than PFHxA.