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Some of Trump’s assaults on air and water are reversible. Not these two.
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9 Jan 2026 | The Hill
Broad-spectrum pesticides, cyclobutrifluram and isocycloseram, are likely contribute to chemical contamination in water and food consumed in many millions of households for generations to come.
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Watchdog searching for stores selling now banned products with PFAS in Maine
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7 Jan 2026 | WGME
Defend Our Health says a lot of online retailers have marked PFAS products not deliverable to Maine, while others have tried to comply, but missed a few products.
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$27M DuPont PFAS contamination class action settlement
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5 Jan 2026 | Top Class Actions
DuPont agreed to a $27 million class action lawsuit settlement to resolve claims it contaminated drinking water in Hoosick Falls, New York, with PFOA.
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Plasreco promotes PFAS-free coating solutions for packaging, leather and textiles
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1 Jan 2026 | European Coatings
The Plasreco project is developing silicon-based functional coatings applied by atmospheric plasma as an alternative to PFAS-based treatments.
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Unforeseen risks due to the use of fluorinated materials for per-and polyfluoroalkyl substance removal
Science
30 Dec 2025 | Nature
Researchers report that fluorinated materials used for PFAS removal may inadvertently release additional fluorinated compounds during production, use, or disposal, suggesting that non-fluorinated alternatives offer safer options for treatment technologies.
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Shaw Industries invents testing methodology to detect PFAS
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19 Dec 2025 | Floor Covering Weekly
“What we discovered is that drinking water testing wasn’t accurate for soaps, oils, resins and other solid materials—really anything other than drinking water. An adequate testing methodology didn’t exist, so we invented one.”
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Development and validation of an LC-MS/MS method for simultaneous determination of 39 PFAS in soil samples: applications to playgrounds in Attica, Greece
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4 Dec 2025 | Anal Bioanal Chem
An optimized research method was found to be a useful tool for environmental and public-health decision making by reliably detecting 39 PFAS in playground soils, and the results suggest that some PFAS levels may potentially exceed a precautionary child-health screening value of about 100 ng per kg of body weight per day.
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EWG to Lee Zeldin: PFAS pesticides are bad news, not ‘fake news’
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2 Dec 2025 | EWG
The EPA uses a narrow definition of PFAS that excludes PFAS pesticides it’s recently approved. Under this definition, only three currently approved pesticide active ingredients would be considered PFAS: broflanilide, pyrifluquinazon and noviflumuron.
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Lab-scale insights into the environmental fate of emerging contaminants from airport runoff
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1 Dec 2025 | J Contam Hydrol.
Laboratory evidence indicates that only some contaminants in airport runoff are naturally diminished during contact with sediments, whereas PFAS remain largely persistent, raising concerns about whether soil aquifer treatment can adequately protect groundwater from these chemicals.
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Assessing PFAS exposure in Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus canadensis nelsoni) populations adjacent to the former Rocky Flats nuclear site: A preliminary analysis.
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1 Dec 2025 | PLoS One
Preliminary analysis finds that PFOS was consistently detected in elk livers at both Rocky Flats and control sites while PFOA was not detected, suggesting that PFOS may accumulate in elk regardless of proximity to known contamination sources and highlighting potential wildlife exposure pathways and implications for game consumption.
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Officials make disturbing discovery after drawing blood from residents near US military base: 'We've had it'
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29 Nov 2025 | Yahoo!News
What was most staggering in the discovery, however, was that 26% of plume area participants had PFAS levels in the highest concentration tier, meaning they were exposed to nearly ten times the amount of the common group.
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Non-destructive surface sampling of PFAS exposure on firefighter protective gears: Potential implications for occupational exposure
Science
27 Nov 2025 | J. Hazard. Mater.
Firefighter turnout gear and self-contained breathing apparatus surfaces may contain notable levels of PFAS, particularly 6:2 FTS, indicating potential occupational exposure through skin contact and inhalation underscoring a need for improved monitoring while noting that minor PFAS signals in blanks may introduce some uncertainty.
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The EPA is embracing PFAS pesticides. These are the health risks
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26 Nov 2025 | Time
The approval of the two chemicals is part of a larger pattern by the Trump Administration to broaden the use of PFAS-containing pesticides on industrial and private farms across the country.
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Wausau Council rejects PFAS payout deal, citing losses and lack of clear plan
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26 Nov 2025 | Wausau Pilot & Review
The future payment stream of $2,037,766 would be discounted to ‘present value’ and reduced further by fees, leaving the city with a final lump-sum payment of $1,571,135.
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Toy safety: Parliament adopts new rules to enhance child health protection
Policy
25 Nov 2025
The new rules also ban the intentional use of per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) and the most dangerous types of bisphenols.