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San Jose firefighters allege gear gave them cancer
News
11 May 2021 | San José Spotlight
A 2016 study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found firefighters are more likely to be diagnosed with cancer compared to the general public. Cancer is the leading cause of death in the profession.
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[Job Opportunity] PFAS Postdoc Position at UC Berkeley
Events
23 Apr 2021
The Alvarez-Cohen and Sedlak Labs in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley seeks a Postdoctoral Scholar to focus on combined chemical and biological remediation of PFAS.
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[Blog] CA bill to ensure safer food packaging passes in Assembly
News
22 Apr 2021 | NRDC
This bill would also require disclosure of the use of chemicals like PFAS and bisphenols (BPA, BPS, etc.) in cookware such as pots and pans.
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[Press Release] Harmful PFAS chemicals are pervasive in building materials
News
21 Apr 2021
From the floor to the roof, the average building may be rife with persistent and potentially toxic “forever chemicals” called PFAS.
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For PFAS, is environmental persistence on its own enough to trigger regulation?
Policy
18 Apr 2021
California is on the verge of setting a precedent for chemical-control policy in the US. For the first time, an agency in the state plans to treat a large group of commercial substances as a class for the purpose of regulation.
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For PFAS, is environmental persistence on its own enough to trigger regulation?
News
18 Apr 2021 | C&EN
California regulators intend to deem carpets and rugs treated with PFAS-based stain-resistant coatings as having “a hazard trait that can harm people or the environment.” That hazardous trait is persistence. Industry is pushing back against this rationale.
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[Press Release] Calif. bill would ban ‘forever chemicals’ in products for children
News
8 Apr 2021 | EWG
The bill will be heard by the Assembly Appropriations Committee next month.
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California moves on PFOA, PFOS, and other PFAS under Proposition 65
News
1 Apr 2021 | JD Supra
The other PFAS that are the focus of OEHHA’s actions include PFDA, PFHxS, PFNA, and PFUnDA.
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We sampled tap water across the US – and found arsenic, lead and toxic chemicals
News
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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CA PFAS Webinar
Events
30 Mar 2021
The American Groundwater Trust will be hosting a webinar on PFAS contamination in California.
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[Press Release] California to list notorious ‘forever chemical’ as a cause of cancer in people
News
24 Mar 2021 | EWG
The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health and Hazard Assessment, or OEHHA, said March 19 that PFOA “meets the criteria for listing as known to the state to cause cancer under Proposition 65,” based on the findings of a National Toxicology Program report last year.
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Suspect Screening, Prioritization, and Confirmation of Environmental Chemicals in Maternal-Newborn Pairs from San Francisco
Science
24 Mar 2021 | Environ Sci Technol
Methyl perfluoroundecanoate and 2-perfluorooctyl ethanoic acid were found in newborns during a critical development period.
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PFAS Water Lawsuits Expose Financial Impacts on State’s Poor Communities
Policy
22 Mar 2021
Santa Clarita, a comfortable exurb of some 213,000 residents about 30 miles northwest of Los Angeles, is one of hundreds of California communities and districts grappling with the pricey problem of drinking water that’s been tainted by PFAS.
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PFAS water lawsuits expose financial impacts on state’s poor communities
News
22 Mar 2021 | Capital & Main
California has nearly 3,000 community water systems, but only about 9% of the public drinking water wells have been tested for PFOA and PFOS, according to the State Water Board.
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UCSF study finds evidence of 55 chemicals never before reported in people
News
16 Mar 2021 | UCSF
For 37 of these chemicals we have little to no information about their sources or uses.