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Texas Farms Detail PFAS Contamination in Lawsuit Over Biosolids Fertilizer
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26 Feb 2024 | Progressive Farmer
With regulation of sewage-sludge fertilizer mostly unsettled nationally, a pair of Texas farms are suing the waste recycling and biosolids company Synagro for selling fertilizer that the farmers allege has affected their health, contaminated their water supply and left their fields and livestock with dangerous testing levels of "forever chemicals."
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Personal injury firms look for people exposed to PFAS from Joint Base Cape Cod
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26 Feb 2024 | wbur
Across the country, more than 10,000 people — many veterans and firefighters — have joined a lawsuit over exposure to toxic PFAS chemicals.
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EPA proposes to enable states to require ‘forever chemical’ cleanup, giving substances ‘hazardous’ label
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2 Feb 2024 | The Hill
The EPA has proposed to designate nine toxic “forever chemicals” as “hazardous constituents” under the nation’s law for cleaning up ongoing pollution, in a move that would enable states to require cleanups if the substances are released.
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EPA Releases List Of Known PFAS Chemicals Covered By New Reporting Rules
Policy
1 Feb 2024
The US EPA published on January 26, 2024, a list of specific PFAS that trigger reporting requirements under EPA’s recently promulgated Toxic Substances Control Act Section 8(a)(7) PFAS reporting rule.
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EPA to Release List of Known PFAS That Companies Must Report
Policy
25 Jan 2024
The EPA will post on Friday a list of known PFAS that must be reported to the agency under a regulation requiring companies to submit more than 10 years of production, use, worker exposure, health, and other data.
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Elevated levels of serum per-and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in contact lens users of US young adults
Science
16 Jan 2024
Analysis of NHANES data revealed that contact lens users in the U.S. young adult population, particularly females, exhibit higher serum concentrations of PFAS such as PFOA and PFOS, suggesting that contact lens use may contribute significantly to PFAS body burden and pose a potential public health concern.
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EPA Takes Steps to Limit the Use of Certain PFAS
Policy
10 Jan 2024
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will implement a rule under the Toxic Substances Control Act requiring companies to notify and obtain approval from the EPA before manufacturing, importing, or processing more than 300 PFAS listed on the TSCA Inventory, even if they are labeled as "inactive."
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Maine Begins PFAS Essential Use ID Process to Permit Sales
Policy
8 Jan 2024
Companies and industrial sectors that claim PFAS are essential for the goods they produce have until March 1 to notify a Maine agency as the first step to help continue selling those products in the state.
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Overview of PFAS Regulations in the United States and What Japanese Companies and Their U.S. Subsidiaries Need to Know
Policy
2 Jan 2024
This article provides an overview of PFAS regulation in the United States, emphasizing its relevance to various Japanese businesses, including those in specialty chemicals, manufacturing, oil and gas, and trading, due to the widespread use of PFAS in commercial products, potential liability risks, and recent multi-billion dollar settlements in PFAS contamination lawsuits.
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‘Forever chemicals’ found in freshwater fish, yet most states don’t warn residents
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29 Dec 2023 | Brudge Michigan
With no federal guidance, what is considered safe to eat varies significantly among states, most of which provide no regulation.
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[Press Release] Dingell, Fitzpatrick, Ryan Introduce PFAS Action Act
Policy
14 Dec 2023
Representatives Debbie Dingell, Brian Fitzpatrick, and Pat Ryan, along with 13 additional members of Congress, introduced comprehensive, bipartisan legislation to protect Americans and the environment from harmful forever chemicals known as PFAS.
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Backlash forces EPA to pause toxic PFAS waste imports to US from Netherlands
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22 Nov 2023 | The Guardian
North Carolina residents push back against environmental agency bringing 4m lbs of ‘forever chemical’ waste to the region.
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Supreme Court won't review $40 million DuPont PFAS verdict tied to cancer
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20 Nov 2023 | Reuters
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to review a $40 million verdict against E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co, preserving a legal win for an Ohio man who said toxic "forever chemicals" released by the company into drinking water caused his cancer.
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US industry disposed of at least 60m pounds of PFAS waste in last five years
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17 Nov 2023 | The Guardian
The estimate in the new EPA analysis is probably ‘dramatic’ undercount because ‘forever chemical’ waste is unregulated in the US.
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Hawaii relaxes PFAS standards in drinking water
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23 Oct 2023 | Military Poisons
The Hawaii Department of Health has made compliance a lot easier by relaxing regulatory standards for PFAS concentrations in drinking water.