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Forever Chemicals From a Forever Fire
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1 Apr 2024 | Inside Climate News
Community members are working with a local environmental nonprofit to facilitate the potential testing, but Alabama’s top environment regulator said prior testing for PFAS in water sources served “no purpose.”
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Birmingham suing the same chemical companies as Birmingham Water Works for PFA contamination
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3 Mar 2023 | AL.com
Like the Birmingham Water Works – the city of Birmingham has also sued more than two dozen chemical manufacturers in South Carolina federal court over accusations of contaminating drinking water.
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Spatial distribution and mass transport of Perfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in surface water: A statewide evaluation of PFAS occurrence and fate in Alabama
Science
2 May 2022 | Sci. Total Environ.
PFAS were detected in 88% of surface water samples, with short-chain PFAS accounting for the majority of the contamination.
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3M Paying $99M To Settle PFAS Lawsuits in Alabama
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19 Oct 2021 | Star Tribune
The settlement agreement ends years of contentious litigation over groundwater contamination near 3M's PFAS factory in Decatur, Ala.
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United States: PFAS Consumer Products Regulation
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13 Aug 2021 | Mondaq
An overview of enacted and proposed PFAS state laws and regulations.
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[Press Release] Detection of toxic PFAS chemicals increases to 2,790 communities
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20 Jul 2021
The latest detections are based on new testing completed in Alabama, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, South Carolina and Vermont.
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We sampled tap water across the US – and found arsenic, lead and toxic chemicals
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31 Mar 2021 | Consumer Reports and the Guardian
A nine-month investigation by the Guardian and Consumer Reports found alarming levels of forever chemicals, arsenic and lead in samples taken across the US. Almost every sample tested had measurable levels of PFAS.
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PFAS product liability cases – are the floodgates now open?
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12 Jan 2021 | National Law Review
Even companies without direct use or knowledge of PFAS use in products should consider a review of supplier materials, as those materials may have PFAS as a component, which could some day subject the company to legal liability issues.
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The battle for Decatur: PFAS contamination divides an Alabama town
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23 Aug 2020 | The Intercept
This is just one of a series of conflicts playing out throughout the United States. In countless communities where PFAS have been discovered, residents are now grappling with — and sometimes fighting over — how to force powerful companies to clean them up.
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3M strikes deal to clean Tennessee River
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19 Aug 2020 | AON
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management has struck a deal with the 3M Company to clean up chemicals that it admitted to illegally releasing into the Tennessee River over a 10-year period. The agreement requires the company to clean up the chemicals and identify affected sites.
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3M-Decatur enters into consent order with state to clean up industrial pollutants
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26 Jul 2020 | Times Daily
3M Co. has entered into a consent order with the Alabama Department of Environmental Management that requires the company to clean up "forever chemicals" from its Decatur plant and from numerous waste sites in Morgan and Lawrence counties, ADEM announced today.
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High chemical levels in water near Decatur landfill concern environmental group, ADEM
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25 Jun 2020 | Alabama Political Reporter
The most recent PFAS and PFOS tests showed 51,000 ppt levels.
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Alabama school system prepares to sue over 3M contamination
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26 Dec 2019 | AP News
News outlets reported that Decatur’s school system has filed notice saying it plans to sue over industrial toxins leaking from the one-time landfill beneath the former Brookhaven Middle School. Chemicals are leaking into a creek, groundwater and the Tennessee River, the system contends.
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EPA: 3M discharged chemicals without required permit, took years to disclose reporting errors
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26 Sep 2019 | WHNT News 19
A U.S. EPA inspection report found high levels of perfluorinated chemicals from discharge sites, noted 3M lacks a state discharge permit for a chemical that it's already been discharging and pointed out 3M waited three years to inform regulators about hundreds of instances of incorrect discharge information it had filed.
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3M to halt production of undisclosed chemicals at Decatur plant
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19 Sep 2019 | to WHNT News 19
3M indicated in a statement to to WHNT News 19: "we have elected to temporarily idle certain manufacturing processes. We will resume these processes as soon as practicable.”