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PFAS regulation and enforcement accelerate in Germany
Policy
30 Jan 2026
Germany is transposing EU drinking water rules into national law, introducing binding PFAS limits and tighter monitoring, while EU restrictions on firefighting foams and broader class-based controls advance.
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Timeline of PFAS cleanup near Fairchild quietly pushed back 6 years
News
30 Jan 2026 | KXLY
"Well, it's been so long since 2017 of talking about it investigating, discussing but yet not a drop of PFAS has yet been scooped up out of the ground or at the water," said John Hancock, president of the West Plains Water Coalition and a resident whose home is impacted by the contamination in Washington State.
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Paper company named responsible for PFAS pollution offers bottled water to Stella
News
25 Jan 2026 | Wisconsin Public Radio
“I do commend them. They are doing something now that they’ve been told they have to,” Crump said. “Something is better than nothing, which is what they were doing before. We just need to make sure that something is…what’s going to help our citizens the most.”
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New filtration technology could be gamechanger in removal of PFAS ‘forever chemicals
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23 Jan 2026 | The Guardian
“We’re going to need as many technologies as we can possibly find to deal with PFAS in drinking water, and if this works to scale on wastewater, then it would be really something to pay attention to,” said Laura Orlando, a PFAS researcher with the Just Zero non-profit and a civil engineer who works on waste-management design.
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NT town of Katherine home of Australia's best tasting tap water, nine years after PFAS detected
News
9 Jan 2026 | ABC News
After years of delays, the plant started running last year – prompting Power and Water to enter Katherine's tap water into the WIOA competition for the first time.
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[Opinion] Chemists must learn from PFAS to avoid similar mistakes
News
6 Jan 2026 | C&EN
Chemists now face a reckoning over how persistence is defined, rewarded, and regulated and how lessons from PFAS are carried forward into future chemical design.
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U.S. military rejects Okinawa access requests over PFAS findings
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19 Dec 2025 | The Japan Times
The reply says that inspections could be considered only if there were agreed upon environmental standards enabling both sides to properly assess sampling results and clear scientific evidence identifying U.S. facilities as the pollution source.
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Regenerable water remediation platform for ultrafast capture and mineralization of per‐and polyfluoroalkyl substances
Science
25 Sep 2025 | Adv Mater.
Researchers report that an engineered layered mineral may enable rapid capture of PFAS from water and partial conversion of the bound compounds into more stable mineral forms, suggesting a potentially scalable approach that links removal with destruction.
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EPA issues enforcement order for Maine corporation related to release of PFAS at Brunswick Landing
News
11 Sep 2025 | WMTV
The U.S. EPA announced Thursday that it has reached an agreement with the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority that addresses last year's accidental release of "forever chemicals" in Brunswick.
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USAF testing PFAS levels from former base operations
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5 Sep 2025 | The Sun
The "plume" near fuel storage areas in New York state has shrunk considerably, with aeration treatment and soil cleaning procedures that began decades ago.
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$60M Kalamazoo project will remove ‘forever chemicals’ from drinking water supply
News
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
Science
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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Tampa Bay Water awarded $21 million in settlement
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25 Jul 2025 | WMNF
Tampa Bay Water is working on plans with the settlement money to ensure water quality in Hillsborough, Pinellas, and Pasco Counties.
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Enhanced immobilisation of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) using a combination of sorbents and plants: A controlled rainfall simulation study
Science
23 Jun 2025 | Sci. Total Environ.
Lab tests show that mixing PFAS-tainted soil with powdered activated carbon and planting hardy ryegrass on top prevented about 90% of the PFAS from being washed away by heavy rain, pointing to a simple, inexpensive way to keep PFAS out of nearby waterways.
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Stantec to design largest PFAS treatment system in Northwestern U.S.
News
2 May 2025 | WFM
The City of Vancouver, Washington, has selected Stantec to design a treatment system to remove PFAS from a high-volume water station — with the goal of providing cleaner, more reliable drinking water for the community.