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Larval amphibians rapidly bioaccumulate poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances
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22 Jul 2019 | Ecotox. & Enviro. Safety.
Toxic frogs lead to bioaccumulation in predator species.
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Cationic polymer for selective removal of GenX and short-chain PFAS from surface waters and wastewaters at ng/L levels
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22 Jul 2019 | Water Research
Efficient removal of short and long-chain PFAS, including GenX was accomplished using a cationic polymer in surface and wastewaters, as a potential PFAS control technique.
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Federal PFAS hearing to focus on ‘widespread industrial contamination’
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22 Jul 2019 | MLive
PFAS pollution across a 25-square mile swath of West Michigan traced to Wolverine World Wide’s manufacturing over decades raises questions of federal policy, state action and corporate responsibility… Sandy Wynn-Stelt’s home is just yards from a former Wolverine dump that is poisoning her water. Her blood tested at 750 times the…
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“Forever chemical” replacements on the rise in the Great Lakes
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22 Jul 2019 | Environmental Health News
Yet another game of toxic whack-a-mole—this time with PFAS chemicals. Phased-out compounds are decreasing in the Great Lakes, but replacements keep showing up.
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Acute and chronic effects of perfluoroalkyl substance mixtures on larval American bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana)
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22 Jul 2019 | Chemosphere
The developmental effects of PFOS and PFOA as a mixture were worse than effects caused by either single chemical.
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North Carolina: Soil samples to be taken as part of GenX agreement
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20 Jul 2019 | The Fayetteville Observer
Chemours, the company that makes GenX has agreed to take soil samples. The company is also to pay a $12 million penalty and $1 million in investigative costs to the state, submit monthly reports about its GenX emissions, and provide drinking water to homes near the plant that have elevated levels of GenX.
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What consumers can do as regulators weigh ‘compounds’ risk
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20 Jul 2019 | Associated Press
It’s probably impossible to avoid all exposures, says Leonardo Trasande, a children’s environmental health specialist and vice chair for research at New York University’s pediatrics department, and a PFAS expert. But there are “safe and simple steps to limit exposure based on what we know.”
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San Diego company awarded EPA grant to develop water quality test technology
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19 Jul 2019 | City News Service (Scripps Media Inc.)
The US EPA announced that it awarded a $100,000 contract to 2W iTech, a San Diego-based technology company, to develop a low-cost method to identify trace amounts of perfluoroalkyl substances in water at a rate as small as 10 ppt.
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Iowa officials launch PFAS Working Group to address risks to drinking water
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19 Jul 2019 | Iowa Public Radio
Local, state and federal officials are coming together to more proactively address PFAS contamination in Iowa. High levels of the chemicals have been found near military bases in Des Moines and Sioux City.
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N.H. approves unprecedented limits for PFAS chemicals in drinking water
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19 Jul 2019 | NHPR
New Hampshire adopted the country’s most sweeping limits for PFAS chemical contamination in drinking water. It makes New Hampshire the first state to require local water systems, landfills and wastewater plants to routinely test and treat for four chemicals classified as PFAS.
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Angry with PFAS delays, Oscoda residents give the state an earful
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17 Jul 2019 | MLive
People in Oscoda, MI are fed up. One by one, they filed to the microphone Tuesday night and gave a panel of state health and environmental specialists an earful. The U.S. Air Force — the polluter, which contaminated the area by using chemical-based firefighting foam at Wurtsmith Air Force Base — was absent from the meeting.
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Study examines PFAS data from 3 states
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17 Jul 2019 | Coastal Review Online
North Carolina, Colorado and Michigan, three states with PFAS water contaminated are the focus of a three-year study to better understand the extent of contamination, the routes of exposure for the affected communities, and how these man-made chemicals move in the environment.
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Perfluoroalkyl substances in older male anglers in Wisconsin
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15 Jul 2019 | Envionment International
Exposure to PFAS leads to endocrine disruption in adult fishermen.
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3M could face huge cleanup costs over substance in Scotchgard
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15 Jul 2019 | Star Tribune
New federal laws will soon address a national chemical pollution problem and could put 3M and other producers of PFAS into a multibillion-dollar financial bind.
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What’s next, now that N.H. officials have proposed among the strictest PFAS limits in the country?
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15 Jul 2019 | The Exchange (NHPR)
After intense pressure from community activists, New Hampshire officials have proposed some of the lowest PFAS limits in the country. Find out what's in store now, in terms of testing, following the health effects of these chemicals, and more.