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More cities are seeing PFAS pollution in drinking water. Here’s what Louisville found
News
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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2025 Great Lakes PFAS Summit
Events
1 Dec 2025
Join the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) for the annual virtual Great Lakes PFAS Summit December 2 – 4, 2025.
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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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EPA approves new pesticide with PFAS, sparking health concerns
Policy
28 Nov 2025
The EPA said in its approval documents that it found “no human-health risks of concern when used as directed.” Several experts dispute that conclusion and argue that the agency’s review did not fully account for how PFAS accumulate in soil and water or how they move into food.
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The Trump administration is deregulating forever chemicals
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28 Nov 2025 | Jacobin
Just this month, the EPA moved to approve two PFAS-based pesticides for use on crops, including tomatoes, peas, and lettuce. Despite the chemicals’ known dangers, the EPA created a new web page to assure the public of the “robust, chemical-specific process” that the agency uses to approve any pesticide.
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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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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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‘Toxic Soup’: PFAS and other contaminants surged in French Broad River after Helene
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24 Nov 2025 | NC Health News
Among the chemicals detected were 11 types of PFAS, including PFOA and PFOS, which the study found at levels exceeding the Environmental Protection Agency’s maximum contaminant levels of 4 parts per trillion.
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TSCA PFAS reporting- implications of EPA’s new statutory interpretation on articles
Policy
24 Nov 2025
EPA rationalizes that Congress “could have said so” if it desired the reporting requirements to extend to those who import articles containing PFAS.
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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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Washington adopts new PFAS protections to safeguard public health and prevent pollution
Policy
21 Nov 2025
For each product category, Ecology had the option to restrict PFAS, require reporting, or take no action based on the availability of safer solutions.
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Michigan: We can’t afford to look for all PFAS. Homeowners on their own
News
21 Nov 2025 | Bridge Michigan
The Michigan PFAS Action Response Team doesn’t have a certain dollar figure at which it decides to pull the plug on a source investigation. Rather, it depends on the data they’re able to collect and whether that data points investigators in a direction worth pursuing.
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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.