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Carson City Supervisors approve grass-to-turf field conversions while across the country, cities ban its use due to heat, PFAS concerns
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22 Aug 2025 | CarsonNow.org
The decision to swap turf for grass has been controversial in the past due to the heat turf can absorb and put off, but staff also believes it could save around 8 millions of water each year currently used for irrigation.
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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 Exposure and Postoperative Weight Regain in Adolescents After Bariatric Surgery: Findings From the Teen-LABS Study
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14 Aug 2025 | Obesity (Silver Spring)
Adolescents with higher pre-surgery blood levels of certain PFAS chemicals were more likely to regain weight and waist size in the years after bariatric surgery, potentially reducing the procedure’s long-term health benefits.
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PFAS contamination and its rising toll on food security: A hidden global threat
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11 Aug 2025 | Food Control
Widespread PFAS contamination from industrial, agricultural, and packaging sources has been found to accumulate in global food systems, compromising food safety, disrupting ecosystems, and posing significant long-term health risks.
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Multi-site study of communities with PFAS-contaminated drinking water: Methods, demographics, and PFAS serum concentrations
Science
11 Aug 2025 | Environ. Int.
In eight PFAS-affected U.S. communities, blood tests of 5,826 adults and 710 children from 2019 to 2023 found higher PFHxS and PFOA in adults and higher PFHxS only in children.
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Groundbreaking $2 Billion Environmental Settlement Makes History and Holds Polluters Accountable for Contamination in New Jersey
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8 Aug 2025 | The National Law Review
Monday, August 4, the State of New Jersey announced a landmark settlement with DuPont and related companies (“DuPont Defendants”) valued at more than $2 billion, the largest environmental recovery for a single State – and one of the top-20 largest settlements of any kind – in U.S. history.
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Breaking the bonds of PFAS: Airport launches new removal effort
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8 Aug 2025 | The Inquirer and Mirror
Nantucket Memorial Airport will soon be on the front lines of testing a new system called HALT, which claims to break down and destroy a wide range of PFAS compounds in water– rendering them inert – using high heat, pressure and a chemical compound like sodium hydroxide.
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Thermal decomposition of organic components in spent lithium-ion batteries: Stagewise evaluation and kinetic analysis
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5 Aug 2025 | Ind. Eng. Chem. Res.
In spent lithium-ion battery recycling, adding oxygen during heat treatment breaks down PVDF more completely around 550 °C with much less energy, leaving far fewer PFAS-like fluorinated residues than inert-gas pyrolysis.
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Seamounts create local hotspots of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances in the oligotrophic open ocean
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4 Aug 2025 | Progress in Oceanography
Scientists discovered that waters above Pacific seamounts hold per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances at concentrations about 40 % higher than nearby open ocean, with the mid-depth mesopelagic layer especially rich in newer short-chain PFAS, showing these undersea mountains act as unexpected hotspots.
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Minnesota’s PFAS ban will exempt youth powersports products
Policy
31 Jul 2025
An exemption carved out by Minnesota lawmakers will allow powersports dealerships to resume selling vehicles that have been sitting in showrooms for more than six months now.
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High-resolution mass spectrometry for extended PFAS surveillance in food: Combining suspect and non-targeted approaches
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29 Jul 2025 | Food Chemistry: X
Using high-resolution mass-spectrometry, scientists examined 58 foods from Europe and North Africa and detected 17 known PFAS plus four previously overlooked fluorinated compounds, including the short-chain PFPrA found in almost half the samples.
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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance concentrations during pregnancy and at birth and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia
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25 Jul 2025 | Environ Res
Researchers analyzing blood samples from California newborns and their mothers found that babies with high levels of MeFOSAA, and to a lesser degree mothers with elevated pregnancy levels, faced roughly double the risk of developing childhood leukemia.
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Deadline extended for reporting PFAS in products in Minnesota, proposed Minnesota PFAS reporting rule under administrative review
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23 Jul 2025 | The National Law Review
The MPCA has proposed a rule to implement this PFAS reporting requirement, and in connection with that rulemaking the agency announced on July 23, 2025 that it will delay the reporting deadline by six months. With the delay, reports will not be due until July 1, 2026.
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Scientists warn of toxic ‘forever chemicals’ in reusable period products
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22 Jul 2025 | The Hill
“Since reusable products are on the rise due to their increased sustainability compared to single-use products, it’s important to ensure that these products are safe,” co-author Marta Venier, an associated professor at Indiana University, said in a statement.
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Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances in reusable feminine hygiene products
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22 Jul 2025 | Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett.
59 reusable menstrual products from North America, South America, and Europe were found to contain PFAS in all items, with period underwear and reusable pads most often intentionally treated. Availability of PFAS-free options suggests thatPFAS aren’t necessary. More research is needed on dermal exposure.