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Europe’s growing PFAS reckoning tests industry and regulators alike
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27 Jun 2026 | EUToday
Regulators increasingly argue that addressing them individually is both impractical and ineffective. Industry groups counter that a broad-brush approach risks sweeping away materials that currently have no viable alternatives.
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Senate Democrats press Hegseth on ‘forever chemical’ cleanup delays
Policy
26 Jun 2026
The lawmakers’ letter, sent Thursday, follows a report by NOTUS that found the Pentagon significantly pushed back cleanup schedules for the chemicals known as PFAS at nearly 200 sites, and posted the changes online without a public announcement.
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PFAS levels in sewage sludge put New York’s dairy and meat industry at risk
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25 Jun 2026 | Sentient
According to the EPA’s risk assessment models, just one application of PFAS-contaminated sludge to farmland may expose humans to unsafe levels of PFAS when they eat some foods produced at those sites, such as beef, eggs, milk, fish, fruits and vegetables.
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Nationwide monitoring of seabirds reveals species- and site-specific legacy PFAS contamination in French coastal areas
Science
24 Jun 2026 | Environ Int
The first large-scale survey of PFAS in French seabirds found widespread, species- and site-specific legacy contamination, with PFOS dominating, the highest levels in ocean-feeding gannets, kittiwakes, and Scopoli’s shearwaters, and elevated burdens near estuaries that may indicate contamination hotspots needing further wildlife health monitoring.
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Elephant seal pups rack up PFAS while nursing
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19 Jun 2026 | C&EN
“Everything that is being studied here is also relevant for human beings,” says Carrie McDonough, an environmental chemist at Carnegie Mellon University who wasn’t part of the work. “We do maternal offloading. Our babies, before they’re even born, have PFAS in them. Our breast milk has PFAS accumulated in it as well.”
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New research links prenatal exposure to PFAS to later development of PMOS
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19 Jun 2026 | The Guardian
This link to polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS) “is another piece that fits in that larger body of evidence of these specific harms, like hormonal disruption,” said Tasha Stoiber, a senior scientist with the Environmental Working Group non-profit who reviewed the study.
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Toothed whales reveal growing scale of PFAS contamination in the world’s oceans
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18 Jun 2026 | Innovation News Network
The findings position toothed whales as valuable indicators of ocean pollution and provide new evidence that forever chemicals are becoming increasingly widespread throughout marine food webs.
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MaineHealth receives $1.1 million federal grant to study effects of PFAS exposure in children
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17 Jun 2026 | Maine Public
"I hope that the work that we do will put some additional data behind that, so that we can make sure that we're monitoring for all the correct conditions in kids who know that they've been exposed," says Dr. Abby Fleisch is a pediatric endocrinologist.
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Per‐and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) exposure profiles and their predictors in a study of us volunteer firefighters
Science
14 Jun 2026 | Am J Ind Med
Among 550 U.S. volunteer firefighters, higher PFAS levels were linked more to age, sex, income, education, geography, and health behaviors than to most firefighting factors, but the authors note that the findings may not apply to professional firefighters who have different call times, work schedules, and occupational exposure patterns.
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PFAS in Delaware River fish are rising faster than the water can dilute them
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13 Jun 2026 | Yahoo!News
The report is one part of a three-part effort based on more than 20 years of PFAS research in the basin, which supplies drinking water to more than 14 million people in Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York.
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Maine uses PFAS fund to cover blood tests for exposed residents
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11 Jun 2026 | WGME
It screens for nine of the most common PFAS compounds and gives a final score so a physician can gauge a person's risk factor for PFAS-associated conditions.
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New York state Legislature passes bill limiting PFAS in drinking water
Policy
10 Jun 2026
If signed into law by the Gov. Kathy Hochul, it would set requirements for drinking water to have levels below four parts per trillion for PFOA and PFOS, and below 10 ppt for three other types of PFAS, including PFNA, HFPO-DA known as GenX chemicals, and PFHxS.
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Individual and joint association between per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and skeletal muscle among 6-9 years old children in China
Science
9 Jun 2026 | Int J Hyg Environ Health
In a snapshot study of 422 young children in Guangzhou, higher exposure to several longer-chain PFAS was associated with lower measures of skeletal muscle mass, with mixture analyses showing similar negative trends.
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Maine CDC updates fish consumption advisory after elevated PFAS found in local waterways
Policy
8 Jun 2026
The CDC advises not to eat any fish caught in the Sandy Stream from Stevens Road in Unity to the confluence with Halfmoon Stream.
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Legacy and emerging per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in glacial meltwater from Mt. Everest
Science
8 Jun 2026 | Environ. Sci. Technol.
PFAS were detected in Mt. Everest glacial meltwater, where short-chain compounds such as PFBA dominated, meltwater flow appeared to drive PFAS release, and nontarget analysis identified emerging hydrogen-substituted PFAS not previously reported in glacial meltwater.