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EPA denies petition to address PFAS
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11 Jan 2021 | Coastal Review Online
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday denied the petition, by six eastern North Carolina organizations to require Chemours Co. to fund testing by independent scientists on 54 PFAS, produced at its Fayetteville Works facility.
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Chemours can skip testing 54 ‘forever chemicals,’ EPA says
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8 Jan 2021 | Bloomberg Law Review
The EPA has rejected a request from six North Carolina environmental health groups to force Chemours Co. to generate toxicity, human health, and other data for dozens of toxic PFAS chemicals.
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Biden chooses N.C. environmental chief to head EPA
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18 Dec 2020 | North Carolina Health News
The announcement followed a briefing in which scientists said “forever chemicals” could make people more vulnerable to COVID-19.
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Polymer-coated electrode detects PFAS in water
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25 Nov 2020 | C&EN
Instead of bringing water samples back to the lab for analysis, researchers would like to have a continuous field monitor. ”We knew that electrochemistry potentially would be sensitive and selective enough to detect PFAS, and it’s rather inexpensive,” Dick says.
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Duty to defend: Under North Carolina law, insurer must defend personal injury claims arising from direct exposure to AFFF despite “hazardous materials exclusion” in CGL policy
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24 Nov 2020 | Fox Rothschild
The terms “discharge,” “dispersal,” “release,” and “escape” are particular environmental terms of art in this context, and a “discharge, dispersal, release, or escape” of a pollutant must be into the environment to trigger the pollution exclusion clause and deny coverage.
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Pittsboro task force recommends “deep discounts” so poor residents can afford clean drinking water
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23 Nov 2020 | North Carolina Health News
The Pittsboro Drinking Water Task Force wants the town to provide deeply discounted reverse osmosis filtration systems to low-income residents while it continues to explore permanent solutions for a community rocked by contaminated drinking water.
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Suggestions for Improving the Characterisation of Risk from Exposures to Per and Polyfluorinated Alkyl Substances (PFAS)
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22 Nov 2020 | Environ Toxicol Chem
Here we propose methods that consider maximizing the use of disparate data streams, seeking patterns, and proposing biological-based approaches to evidence integration towards informed criteria development.
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Identifying Risk Factors for Levels of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in the Placenta in a High-Risk Pregnancy Cohort in North Carolina
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17 Nov 2020 | Environ Sci Technol
PFOS, PFHxS, PFHpS, and PFUnA were detected above the reporting limit in 99, 75, 55, and 49% of placentas, respectively.
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PFAS levels still high despite emission cuts
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26 Oct 2020 | Coastal Review
The primary source of PFAS entering the Cape Fear River is believed to come from contaminated groundwater at the Fayetteville plant, sediment between the water treatment plant intake and the facility, and air emissions.
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‘Forever chemicals’ could be found in more than 1 million NC residents’ drinking water
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24 Oct 2020 | The News & Observer
There needs to be more sampling to understand where some of the PFAS are coming from.
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PFAS chemicals reach remote oceans and accumulate in whales, dolphins, and other ocean life
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22 Oct 2020 | Massive Science
Once in the ocean, PFAS can persist for decades or longer — and travel long distances.
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[Press Release] Study: More than 200 million Americans could have toxic PFAS in their drinking water
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16 Oct 2020 | EurekAlert
PFAS pollution is affecting even more Americans than we previously estimated. They are likely detectable in all major water supplies in the U.S., almost certainly in all that use surface water.
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Toxic PFAS found in livers of Atlantic seabirds, including those in NC
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1 Oct 2020 | The Progressive Pulse
The most abundant type of PFAS found was PFOS, a chemical used in stain repellants like Scotchgard until it was phased out of production in the early 2000s.
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California law bans toxic PFAS from firefighting foam
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30 Sep 2020 | EWG
The law bans the manufacture, sale and use of firefighting foam containing PFAS from use in most applications by January 1, 2022.
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Did the White House stop the EPA from regulating PFAS?
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29 Sep 2020 | The Intercept
A proposal to designate PFOA and PFOS as hazardous substances has been sitting at the White House for more than a year.