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Guest opinion: How to expedite PFAS contamination cleanup
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13 Sep 2019 | The Intelligencer
If this national crisis isn’t important enough for the EPA to flex its muscle, what is? If it never exercises its authority, it’s as if it has none.
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Concerns rise over tainted sewage sludge spread on croplands
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12 Sep 2019 | Associated Press
Several states are examining sewage sludge for PFAS contamination and assessing potential dangers. Maine has enacted a nonbinding advisory level for PFAS in sludge and New Hampshire is working with the U.S. Geological Survey on a soil study whose results will help them set a standard. Maine also found most biosolids from more than 30 wastewater treatment plants were above the state's advisory level while neighboring New Hampshire detected PFAS in tests of sludge from two dozen permit holders. Neither state found traceable levels of PFAS in the milk tested. Based on sludge tests at 41 plants, Michigan ordered several to stop distributing it to farms.
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Companies deny responsibility for toxic ‘forever chemicals’ contamination
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11 Sep 2019 | The Guardian
The 3M Company, the Chemours Company and DuPont appeared before lawmakers over PFAS. Denise Rutherford, senior vice-president of corporate affairs for 3M, argued the chemicals pose no human health threats at current levels and have no victims, conflicting with a large body of research and 3M’s own internal documents.
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[Recording] U.S. House Subcommittee Hearing: The Devil They Knew: PFAS Contamination and the Need for Corporate Accountability, Part III
Policy
10 Sep 2019
A recording and supporting documents from September 10, 2019 U.S. House Subcommittee on Environment hearing on PFAS.
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Documents show 3M knew of dangers of PFAS chemicals, activist group says
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28 Aug 2019 | Star Tribune
The Environmental Working Group released 20 3M documents as part of a timeline that demonstrate that the company knew for decades about and hid the dangers of PFAS... The earliest document dates to 1950.
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State tightens contamination levels; SCV Water sets up testing
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23 Aug 2019 | The Santa Clarita Valley Signal
The updated state [California] guidelines lower the current notification level from 14 ppt to 5.1 ppt for PFOA and from 13 ppt to 6.5 ppt for PFOS.
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Cancer-linked forever chemicals found in more consumer products raises unanswered questions
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13 Aug 2019 | NBC Bay Area
The New Food Economy tested fiber bowls from 14 locations of eight New York City restaurants and found that they contained high levels of fluorine, which indicates intentional treatment with PFAS compounds.
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Industry cites 3M experiment that exposed cancer patients to PFAS to claim the chemicals aren’t so bad
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12 Aug 2019 | The Intercept
Defenders of the chemicals known as PFAS have seized upon an industry-funded study of cancer patients as evidence that the compounds used to make Teflon, firefighting foam, and many other products aren’t as dangerous as they seem.
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Exclusive: Maker of 'forever chemicals' cuts food packaging products
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9 Aug 2019 | Politico
Chemours has quietly stopped making some non-stick coatings used in disposable food packaging.
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Opinion: For toxic ‘forever’ chemicals, we need more than a temporary fix
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8 Aug 2019 | UNDARK
Regulators have consistently been a step behind in their attempts to control PFAS contamination. It’s time for a new strategy.
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Many eco-friendly takeout bowls contain dangerous chemicals linked to cancer and infertility
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6 Aug 2019 | Brinkwire
It means these bowls are not compostable or biodegradable – meaning they will remain on earth for several generations and beyond.
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Battelle to validate new fire suppression foams for Department of Defense
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6 Aug 2019 | Business Wire
Battelle researchers are assisting U.S. DoD environmental research programs to examine commercial, off-the-shelf, fluorine-free aqueous film forming foams to determine whether they meet military specifications for fire suppression.
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‘Radical idea’ from Delaware company could help mitigate PFAS contamination
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5 Aug 2019 | WHYY
The U.S. EPA is funding Framergy’s research into a way to remove and break down PFAS contamination.
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Blog post: FDA must abandon flawed assumptions when reviewing safety of PFAS uses in food
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5 Aug 2019 | Environmental Defense Fund Blog
All the PFAS uses allowed by FDA that we reviewed had estimated exposures exceeding the most protective minimal risk level for PFOS proposed by the CDC.
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Legacy and alternative per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in the U.S. general population: Paired serum-urine data from the 2013-2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
Science
5 Aug 2019 | Environ Int
Blood serum was found to be the best method for biomonitoring of PFAS regardless of their biopersistence.