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More cities are seeing PFAS pollution in drinking water. Here’s what Louisville found
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1 Dec 2025 | NPR
At the Louisville Water Co., the team's calculations eventually showed that the December 2024 spike in GenX levels corresponded to publicly-available data from Chemours, about its chemical discharges into the Ohio River.
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Maine was first to ban spreading PFAS-contaminated sludge on farmland. Now sludge is filling up landfills.
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28 Nov 2025 | Sentient Health
“When we think about policy change around PFAS in commercial products and our waste stream, we tend to focus on economic impacts,” said Adam Nordell, a farmer who had to close his operations a few years ago over high PFAS contamination and who now advocates about farmland contamination risks. “But at the end of the day, it’s a story about human health.”
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PFAS pollutants found in organs of endangered leopard cats
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22 Nov 2025 | The Asahi Shimbun
High concentrations of synthetic chemicals have been detected in Tsushima leopard cats, an endangered species found only on one island between Kyushu and South Korea, a research team said.
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PFAS in firefighting foam (AFFF) and equipment: State-by-state regulations
Policy
21 Nov 2025
A detailed state-by-state snapshot of current AFFF legislation and regulations.
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Miracle-Gro class action claims organic soil and fertilizer products contain PFAS forever chemicals
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21 Nov 2025 | Top Class Actions
The Miracle-Gro class action lawsuit accuses Scotts of failing to disclose the presence of PFAS because this would influence purchasing decisions to the company’s financial detriment.
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California farms applied millions of pounds of PFAS to key crops, study finds
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19 Nov 2025 | The Guardian
California farms applied an average of 2.5m lb of Pfas “forever chemicals” per year on cropland from 2018 to 2023, or a total of about 15m lb, a new review of state records shows.
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NYC bill would phase out PFAS from FDNY gear, test firehouse water by 2028
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19 Nov 2025 | Fire Rescue 1
The legislative package also calls for free annual PFAS-exposure health screenings for active firefighters and twice-yearly exams for FDNY retirees.
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Asymmetrical contamination of anionic PFAS across global freshwater reservoirs
Science
18 Nov 2025 | Water Research
Freshwater reservoirs across Asia, North America, Europe, Africa, and Oceania show three distinct PFAS contamination stages, including PFOA-dominated, PFOA plus PFOS co-dominated, and short-chain PFBA-dominated profiles, which together point to the need for more coordinated global multi-media PFAS monitoring and governance.
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Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances contamination in dairy: A global perspective.
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17 Nov 2025 | Sci Total Environ
PFOS, PFOA, and other PFAS may contaminate milk and dairy products through polluted water, PFAS-treated feed, food-contact packaging, and fluoropolymer-coated equipment, raising concern for infant and population-wide exposure and underscoring the need for stronger global monitoring and regulatory alignment given highly variable and sometimes inconsistent contamination data.
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Swiss authorities impose ban on sale of PFAS-tainted fish
Policy
14 Nov 2025
Representative samples of the stocks showed that the Swiss federal food safety limits had been exceeded, the Lake Zug authorities declared on Friday.
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[Public Comment] EPA Seeks Comment in Effort To Loosen Decade of Forever-Chemical Reporting
Policy
13 Nov 2025
The proposed change, announced on Monday, would loosen the reporting requirements manufacturers face when disclosing their use of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
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State to offer free water filters to residents of La Cieneguilla, La Cienega for PFAS
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13 Nov 2025 | Sante Fe New Mexico
A recent study found that one in three parcels in La Cieneguilla and La Cienega were contaminated with PFAS, and almost 170 parcels had contamination levels above federal standards.
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[Video] How a small community fought for justice after finding forever chemicals in drinking water
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13 Nov 2025 | PBS News
William Brangham profiles a new book that tells the story through the eyes of one small community in Upstate New York that decided to fight for some measure of justice.
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Chemical giant blames carpet makers for north Georgia PFAS contamination
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13 Nov 2025 | Atlanta News First
The filing shows the two industries are now pointing fingers at each other in multiple pending lawsuits filed by homeowners and local governments that claim both carpet manufacturers and 3M are to blame for water contamination.
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Trump officials set to approve ‘forever chemical’ as pesticide ingredient
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10 Nov 2025 | The Guardian
The EPA’s move comes just a few months after Maha groups were outraged by the lack of action on pesticides included in the Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again Commission report.