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An Industry Insider’s Changes at the E.P.A. Could Cost Taxpayers Billions
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28 Aug 2025 | The New York Times
A Trump appointee has proposed rewriting a measure that requires companies to clean up “forever chemicals,” documents show. The new version would shift costs from polluters.
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Detection and Quantitation of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in North Carolina Sea Foam and the Corresponding Sea Water
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27 Aug 2025 | Environ Sci Technol
Sea foam along the North Carolina coast contains extremely high levels of PFAS, sometimes millions of times above drinking water limits, making it a major reservoir of these harmful chemicals and a potential risk to people and ecosystems.
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Integrating ultrashort-chain compounds into the comprehensive analysis of per- and polyfluorinated substances in ready-to-feed liquid milk samples
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25 Aug 2025 | Journal of Chromatography Open
Across the 24 American milk samples tested, PFAS were found in every type, including dairy, plant-based, and infant formula, with ultrashort-chain compounds like trifluoroacetic acid, trifluoromethanesulfonic acid, and short-chain PFAS such as PFBA and PFHpA being the most widespread.
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The landscape of PFAS contamination in the United States: sources and spatial patterns
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24 Aug 2025 | Environ. Sci. Technol.
PFAS contamination is widespread across the United States, with groundwater detections exceeding health limits at nearly all tested sites, especially around military bases, airports, and firefighting foam users, while industrial and waste facilities account for most likely sources and drive regional hotspots that raise major water safety and environmental justice concerns.
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Mitigating PFAS contamination in the United States: Assessing the impact of California’s legislation from 2018 to 2022 on drinking water quality
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23 Aug 2025 | JPHP
California’s 2018–2022 PFAS laws helped cut PFOA and PFOS levels in drinking water by more than half, showing that strong state policies can significantly reduce contamination and serve as a model for national action.
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PFAS: Rural York County water systems struggle with new standards for 'forever chemicals'
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21 Aug 2025 | York Daily Record
The results, as reported in the authority’s annual water quality report, weren’t good. Three of the six wells that provided water to the system’s 1,750 customers tested well above the proposed federal standard of four parts per trillion.
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Forever chemicals present in Greater Cincinnati water, EPA data shows. See where here
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21 Aug 2025 | Cincinnati Enquirer
Greater Cincinnati's amusement park, Kings Island, and another town were found to have chemicals "well over" the federally dictated levels.
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Millions More Americans Are Being Exposed to Contaminated Water
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21 Aug 2025 | Newsweek
The findings come as part of the EPA's Fifth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule, known as UCMR 5, requiring U.S. water utilities to test drinking water for 29 individual PFAS compounds.
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Federal court orders Chemours to stop PFAS discharge from West Virginia facility
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20 Aug 2025 | Manufacturing Drive
The Teflon manufacturer’s Washington Works facility violated the Clean Water Act and it must “comply by any means necessary,” U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin said.
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Socioeconomic disparities and risk of papillary thyroid cancer associated with environmental exposure to per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in Florida
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18 Aug 2025 | IJERPH
Residential proximity to PFAS-contaminated sites in Florida was linked to higher papillary thyroid cancer incidence among non-Hispanic White and Hispanic populations, with lower-income communities facing disproportionately greater exposure.
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PFAS in Asheville, NC water? One NC site has highest 'forever chemical' levels in US
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15 Aug 2025 | Asheville Citizen Times
However, all WNC sites where PFAS were detected either had annual averages that were not over EPA limits, or contained a type of PFAS that the EPA doesn't currently limit.
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New EPA data show more towns have PFAS in their water. Is yours one?
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15 Aug 2025 | USA Today
The borough manager in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, points to a firefighter training facility as the source of contamination that averaged 32 times the federal limit over the past year.
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Are turf fields safe to play on? Critics have PFAS, heat and injury-related concerns
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14 Aug 2025 | WECT
Advocates say the fields help reduce maintenance costs, are more durable and lend themselves to year-round use. Critics, though, say turf fields are dangerous to play on.
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PFAS Exposure and Postoperative Weight Regain in Adolescents After Bariatric Surgery: Findings From the Teen-LABS Study
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14 Aug 2025 | Obesity (Silver Spring)
Adolescents with higher pre-surgery blood levels of certain PFAS chemicals were more likely to regain weight and waist size in the years after bariatric surgery, potentially reducing the procedure’s long-term health benefits.
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Court Dismisses Cookware Group’s Case Against Minnesota PFAS Law
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13 Aug 2025 | Bloomberg Law
A federal district court has dismissed a trade association’s lawsuit opposing Minnesota’s ban of PFAS in consumer products.