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Washington state proposes new rule to regulate PFAS in 12 product categories
News
6 Jun 2025 | Toxic-Free Future
This proposed rule is part of implementation of a PFAS law intended to speed up action under Safer Products for Washington—the nation’s strongest law regulating toxic chemicals in everyday products.
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Hundreds of frustrated Torbay-area residents attend PFAS class-action lawsuit meeting
News
6 Jun 2025 | The Telegram
As lawyer Alex Templeton stood at the podium inside a muggy Torbay Commons on June 4 to provide updates on the growing class-action lawsuit against Transport Canada, all he could think about as he saw the concerned expressions on the faces of the hundreds of attendees was the number of times he turns on the tap in the run of a day.
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Michigan triples waters with ‘Do Not Eat’ warning for PFAS in fish
Policy
5 Jun 2025
The state of Michigan has tripled the list of lakes and rivers where high concentrations of toxic ‘forever chemicals’ make the fish unsafe to eat.
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The new PFAS bill is urgently needed for Michigan
News
3 Jun 2025 | The Michigan Daily
To address this prevalent problem, Michigan has started regulating the agricultural use of biosolids. However, these measures fall short because they do not ban the use of such fertilizers outright, like Maine did.
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Pre-regulatory actions as a driver for reduced PFAS emissions? Long-term trends and change points for human and environmental samples from Germany
Science
3 Jun 2025 | Environ Sci Eur
A long‑term analysis of German blood, wildlife and water samples found that levels of major PFAS chemicals peaked in the late 1990s–2000s and began dropping roughly a decade before formal bans, suggesting that early voluntary industry shifts rather than regulations triggered the first reductions and highlighting the need for swifter legal action to safeguard health and the environment.
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Ecosystem-wide PFAS characterization and environmental behavior at a heavily contaminated desert oasis in the southwestern US
Science
2 Jun 2025 | Environmental Research
Researchers discovered that decades of firefighting‑foam runoff have saturated New Mexico’s Holloman Lake and its entire food web with record‑high PFAS, tracing how the pollutants travel from highly saline water through soils and plants into insects, fish, birds and mammals—underscoring an urgent need for remediation.
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Municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plant effluent contributions to per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances in the Potomac River: A basin-scale measuring and modeling approach
Science
2 Jun 2025 | Environ Sci Technol
A Potomac‑River study finds that both city and factory wastewater plants steadily leak PFAS “forever chemicals” into the basin, enough that, during summer low‑flows, about one in six drinking‑water intakes could exceed new federal limits—showing that tackling the problem requires a whole‑watershed strategy, not just individual pipes.
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Minnesota is set to impose new PFAS reporting requirements in January. Manufacturers say they need more time.
Policy
30 May 2025
Manufacturers and trade groups are urging the state to extend the forever chemicals reporting deadline, saying they need more time to sift through complex, multitiered supply chains.
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PFAS ban on everyday household items passes IL Senate
Policy
30 May 2025
This plan would ban PFAS from being added to cosmetics, dental floss, children items and toys, menstrual products, underwear and more. State Sen. Julie Morrison (D-Lake Forest) said Illinois will lead the way in banning these products.
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Congress pressed to confront PFAS pollution threatening Great Lakes and Midwest communities
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30 May 2025 | Environmental Health Network
Communities around the Great Lakes, already reeling from widespread PFAS contamination, are pushing lawmakers to restore stricter federal standards and boost cleanup efforts amid concerns over weakened environmental protections.
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$8.5M to Garden City Compost could help the facility manage PFAS contamination
News
30 May 2025 | 8KPAX
The PFAS found at Garden City Compost come from wastewater that they use to create biosolids, which are part of the base of creating compost.
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Saint-Gobain knew Merrimack plant released toxic PFAS but shifted operations there anyway
News
29 May 2025 | Environmental Health News
A French manufacturer moved hazardous operations to New Hampshire despite knowing its Teflon plant was emitting large amounts of toxic chemicals linked to serious health problems.
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Maine House passes bill to require landlords to test for PFAS
Policy
28 May 2025
The Maine House has given initial approval to two bills that expand testing for the "forever chemicals" known as PFAS.
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YouTube Science Star Derek Muller Confronts PFAS “Forever Chemicals”—In His Own Blood
News
28 May 2025 | Scientific American
YouTube star Derek Muller built an 18-million-subscriber YouTube empire by challenging misconceptions about science. Now his own blood test and a sudden EPA reversal bring this topic into the mainstream.
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[Dissertation] Permitting pollution: The production of science, policy, and the State in Environmental Regulatory Policy on Industrial Pollution in the United States
Science
27 May 2025 | American University
Archival records and ethnographic interviews reveal that tight corporate–regulator relationships in the United States let industrial polluters steer science and policy, forcing communities in places like North Carolina and Louisiana to fight for themselves and showing that lasting environmental protection will require community‑centered, bottom‑up reforms rather than today’s permit system.