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With ‘trepidation,’ Michigan settles Wurtsmith PFAS cleanup dispute
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26 Jul 2020 | MLive
A major bone of contention has been around the Air Force’s reluctance to comply with a low, 12 ppt state cleanup threshold for PFOS at the point where contaminated groundwater vents to surface water bodies.
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House Democrats add some 'forever chemicals' provisions to defense bill after spiking major amendment
Policy
21 Jul 2020
House Democrats added several amendments aiming to regulate a class of cancer-linked chemicals called PFAS to a defense spending bill Monday.
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PFAS Task Force secures $200M to clean up chemicals at former military bases
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14 Jul 2020 | UpNorthLive
This funding will help to clean up PFAS contamination in communities such as former Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Oscoda, MI.
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Why limiting PFAS in drinking water is a challenge in the US
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13 Jul 2020 | C&EN
An article in the local newspaper caught Andrea Amico’s eye in May 2014. It reported that one of the three drinking-water wells at a sprawling business and industrial park nearby was shut down because of high levels of chemical contamination.
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Serum Half-Lives for Short- and Long-Chain Perfluoroalkyl Acids after Ceasing Exposure from Drinking Water Contaminated by Firefighting Foam.
Science
13 Jul 2020 | Environ. Health Perspect.
Branched PFOS isomers had shorter half-lives than linear PFOS isomers in contaminated human blood.
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Whitmer signs bills regulating PFAS foam use at Michigan fire stations
Policy
8 Jul 2020
Fire departments would have 48 hours to tell state regulators about the use of a chemical-based firefighting foam type that’s caused drinking water contamination around Michigan under legislation signed into law
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Michigan lawmakers make another push to crack down on PFAS
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1 Jul 2020 | Michigan Advance
A top priority: Requiring the U.S. EPA to create a national enforceable drinking water standard for certain types of PFAS within two years and list them as hazardous substances under the nation’s Superfund law.
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Will Congress finally address toxic 'forever chemicals?'
Policy
30 Jun 2020
The haunting folk song refrain, “When will we ever learn?” could apply well to the reckless manufacture of a class of harmful chemicals called PFAS.
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Environmental Assessment of Various End-Of-Life Pathways for Treating Per- And Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Spent Fire-Extinguishing Waters
Science
25 Jun 2020 | Environ Toxicol Chem
This study investigates the environmental impacts emanating from the proper treatment of spent fire-extinguishing water with three end-of-life treatment scenarios.
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Another Pathway for Firefighter Exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances: Firefighter Textiles
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23 Jun 2020 | ES&TL
Textiles used as firefighter turnout gear were found to have high levels of total fluorine, and individual PFAS were identified and measured on new and used firefighting turnout gear.
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DOD Must Do More to Address PFAS Pollution
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19 Jun 2020 | Bloomberg Law
Military service members and their families are especially at risk from forever chemicals because of the DOD’s 50-year use of fire-fighting foam made with PFAS.
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Michigan collects 30k gallons of toxic PFAS firefighting foam
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17 Jun 2020 | MLive
Foam is solidified into a cement-like state before disposal. It was originally headed for U.S. Ecology’s hazardous waste landfill in Belleville, but it has been re-routed to Idaho because the region receives less rainfall and landfills there do not generate as much leachate.
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Nontargeted mass-spectral detection of chloroperfluoropolyether carboxylates in New Jersey soils
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10 Jun 2020 | Science
The historical legacy-PFAS fingerprint for sources in New Jersey was developed.
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Per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) current status and research needs
Science
10 Jun 2020 | Environ. Tech. & Inn.
This paper is intended to capture the shared information, comments, and current thinking related to PFAS challenges and research needs as identified by the group of expert participants; the write up is not intended to be a complete dissertation on the science and work that has been carried out.
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Foam Transition: Is it as simple as "foam out/foam in"?
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5 Jun 2020 | The Catalyst
As an increasing number of drinking water supplies are discovered to be impacted with PFASs above levels deemed to be safe, numerous impacted communities are instigating litigation against end users and manufacturers of aqueous film forming foams and fluoroprotein foams.