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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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Perfluorooctanoate and changes in anthropometric parameters with age in young girls in the Greater Cincinnati and San Francisco Bay Area
Science
15 Jul 2019 | Int J Hyg Environ Health
PFOA is associated with decreased Body Mass Index and waist/height ratio in young girls.
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Associations of Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances With Incident Diabetes and Microvascular Disease
Science
15 Jul 2019 | Diabetes Care
PFAS in blood plasma was associated with diabetes and microvascular disease.
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How toxic ‘forever chemicals’ made their way into your food
News
14 Jul 2019 | The Hill
While the use of clean human or animal waste for fertilizing fields is logical and ecologically sensible, spreading sludge known to be contaminated with chemicals that don’t break down and are absorbed by plants and farm animals is not.
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A new drinking water crisis hits US military bases across the nation
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13 Jul 2019 | CNBC
The Department of Defense has spent more than $550 million on PFAS investigations and responses including providing bottled water and in-home water filtration systems. But DOD has not come up with a plan to actually clean up the PFAS contamination across the country, something the Pentagon roughly estimated could cost $2 billion. CNBC went to some of the communities near military bases to see how PFAS contamination is playing out today. Watch the video to hear from impacted citizens, veterans and military officials.
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House measure would declare PFAS chemicals hazardous under Superfund law
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12 Jul 2019 | The Detroit News
The U.S. House approved in a 220-197 vote a defense authorization bill that would designate all toxic fluorinated chemicals as hazardous substances under the Superfund program within a year and phase out military fire-fighting foam containing PFAS by 2025, rather than 2029 as called for in the underlying National Defense Authorization Act.
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Trump promises to veto a bill banning the military from using toxic products with PFAS
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11 Jul 2019 | Pacific Standard
US President Donald Trump threatened to veto a defense spending bill with an amendment that restricts the use of a toxic chemical compound found in firefighting foams. Several provisions in the bill, introduced in the House of Representatives, would require the United States Department of Defense to switch to safer foams without PFAS... The bill would also require the military to pay to clean up sites where its activities have contaminated the water, including farms and watersheds, and classify the areas as Superfund sites.
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A vote this week may help launch changes to federal PFAS oversight
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10 Jul 2019 | MLive
Congress is looking at a wave of proposed PFAS legislation, including several amendments added to the military spending bill for 2020. If the U.S. House of Representatives votes as expected this week on its version of the National Defense Authorization Act for 2020, environmental proponents say, they’re likely to include measures that would strengthen PFAS requirements for the federal government and military...
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House gearing up for PFAS in defense bill
Policy
9 Jul 2019
The U.S. House of Representatives takes up work this week on what could become its own version of major PFAS legislation attached to the National Defense Authorization Act.
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PFAS sleuths seek ‘forever chemical’ fingerprints
News
9 Jul 2019 | Bloomberg Environment
Scientists push to identify sources of PFAS contamination. Stronger evidence could bolster hundreds of lawsuits, regulatory cleanup...
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3M stock is the biggest loser in the Dow today. This is why
News
5 Jul 2019 | Barron’s
3M has hit a rough patch, facing new environmental liabilities at the same time that global economic growth is slowing. The concerns have led investors to sell 3M stock (ticker: MMM), driving down its price by more than 20% from its 52-week high.
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Farmers losing everything after ‘forever chemicals’ turned up in their food
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2 Jul 2019 | BuzzFeed News
’Forever chemicals’ linked to cancer are turning up in farm produce across the country, leading farms to lay off workers, incinerate cranberry harvests, kill cows, and dump thousands of gallons of dairy milk. Such long-lived "fluorinated" compounds have been measured in the drinking water in over 600 locations in 43 states, near factories or military bases that use them in firefighting foams…
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Chemours says DuPont lowballed environmental liabilities
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1 Jul 2019 | Washington Post
Chemours, a spinoff of DuPont’s Performance Chemicals unit, filed a recently unsealed lawsuit against DuPont, claiming that the maximum liability exposure figures that DuPont certified prior to the spinoff have proven to be “systematically and spectacularly wrong.”
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Senate vote requires military, EPA to deal with harmful 'forever chemicals'
News
27 Jun 2019 | The Hill
The Senate passed the 2020 Defense Spending Bill including a bipartisan amendment that would commission the U.S. Geological Survey to track PFAS contamination nationwide and require public utilities to test drinking water for PFAS. The House is expected to vote on this legislation in July.
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Senate vote requires military, EPA to deal with harmful 'forever chemicals'
Policy
27 Jun 2019
The Senate passed the 2020 Defense Spending Bill including a bipartisan amendment that would commission the U.S. Geological Survey to track PFAS contamination nationwide and require public utilities to test drinking water for PFAS. The House is expected to vote on this legislation in July.