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Wisconsin moves to bring PFAS limits in line with contested federal standards
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3 Oct 2025 | Wisconsin Public Radio
Environmental advocates are urging state regulators to bring Wisconsin’s PFAS standards in line with federal drinking water standards despite an ongoing legal challenge to the federal rules.
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EPA’s new agenda includes actions on PFAS, incinerators and more
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8 Sep 2025 | Waste Dive
In a calendar update, the federal agency announced timelines for many of its deregulatory priorities.
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$60M Kalamazoo project will remove ‘forever chemicals’ from drinking water supply
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5 Sep 2025 | MLive
The project will ensure the city complies with stricter federal PFAS regulations taking effect in 2029, per a Kalamazoo press release.
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PFAS treatment as an opportunity for broader drinking water improvements: evidence from US water systems
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4 Sep 2025 | ACS ES&T Water
PFAS treatment requirements can act as a catalyst for broader improvements in U.S. drinking water systems, especially for smaller or underserved communities, by encouraging upgrades in infrastructure, source water protection, and operator capacity.
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New Mexico will soon release rules for new bans of everyday products that use ‘forever chemicals’
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3 Sep 2025 | Source NM
State environment secretary plans to spend $2M to move people off wells in Curry County.
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Comparing in-home and bottled drinking water quality: regulated and emerging contaminants in rural Central Appalachia
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3 Sep 2025 | J Water Health
PFAS were present at very low levels in some in-home, spring, and bottled water, measured by LC-MS/MS with reporting limits down to 0.015 ppt, bottled water showed total PFAS up to 2.354 ppt with no individual PFAS exceeding the April 2024 EPA MCLs, and only one tap sample contained GenX at 0.136 ppt.
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Fire departments concerned about cancer risks are buying gear that is free of forever chemicals
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29 Aug 2025 | AP News
Every time he rushed out on a fire call, East Providence Lt. Thomas Votta knew he put himself at risk for cancer. There are potential carcinogens in the smoke billowing out of a house fire, but also risks from wearing his chemically-treated gear.
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Mitigating PFAS contamination in the United States: Assessing the impact of California’s legislation from 2018 to 2022 on drinking water quality
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23 Aug 2025 | JPHP
California’s 2018–2022 PFAS laws helped cut PFOA and PFOS levels in drinking water by more than half, showing that strong state policies can significantly reduce contamination and serve as a model for national action.
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PFAS: Rural York County water systems struggle with new standards for 'forever chemicals'
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21 Aug 2025 | York Daily Record
The results, as reported in the authority’s annual water quality report, weren’t good. Three of the six wells that provided water to the system’s 1,750 customers tested well above the proposed federal standard of four parts per trillion.
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Forever chemicals present in Greater Cincinnati water, EPA data shows. See where here
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21 Aug 2025 | Cincinnati Enquirer
Greater Cincinnati's amusement park, Kings Island, and another town were found to have chemicals "well over" the federally dictated levels.
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Millions More Americans Are Being Exposed to Contaminated Water
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21 Aug 2025 | Newsweek
The findings come as part of the EPA's Fifth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule, known as UCMR 5, requiring U.S. water utilities to test drinking water for 29 individual PFAS compounds.
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PFAS in Asheville, NC water? One NC site has highest 'forever chemical' levels in US
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15 Aug 2025 | Asheville Citizen Times
However, all WNC sites where PFAS were detected either had annual averages that were not over EPA limits, or contained a type of PFAS that the EPA doesn't currently limit.
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New EPA data show more towns have PFAS in their water. Is yours one?
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15 Aug 2025 | USA Today
The borough manager in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, points to a firefighter training facility as the source of contamination that averaged 32 times the federal limit over the past year.
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Navy wants to sample well water in VB for PFAS
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8 Aug 2025 | Wavy
If you live in a Virginia Beach neighborhood where you often hear the sound of freedom from the jets flying out of Naval Air Station Oceana, the U.S. Navy wants to hear from you.
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PFAS in rural U.S. well water: Using participatory science to identify and communicate results to address risks
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7 Aug 2025 | Environ. Sci. Technol.
PFAS were found in rural U.S. private wells, most often PFOA, PFOS, and PFHxS, with some exceeding the U.S. EPA’s 2023 drinking water limits even in areas with no known sources.