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Advocates Urge Mass. To Ban Food Packaging Chemicals
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8 Oct 2021 | Worcester Business Journal
Manufacturers opposed the bill as drafted, and recommended a later compliance deadline should the bill move forward.
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PFAS Contamination: Of 21 Barnstable Ponds Tested, 21 Had Contaminants, Town Report Finds
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4 Oct 2021 | Cape Cod Times
Seven samples had PFAS levels that exceeded the state drinking water standard.
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Keating: Air Force Agrees to Pay For PFAS Cleanups in Mashpee and Falmouth Wells
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17 Sep 2021 | Cape Cod Times
Voters authorized $8.4 million to design, manufacture and install PFAS filters.
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Firefighters Blast Decision to Allow Toxic PFAS Chemicals to Stay in Their Gear
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15 Sep 2021 | WGBH
Firefighters across the region are decrying a decision by a Quincy-based association that sets national fire safety standards to allow the continued use of toxic PFAS in the manufacture of protective gear.
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Toxic Firefighting Foams A Challenge to Quickly Replace
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8 Sep 2021 | State House News Service
The proposition of replacing our foam stock commonwealth-wide is daunting.
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As Barnstable Hunts for New Sources of Public Drinking Water, PFAS Contamination Rears Its Ugly Head
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3 Sep 2021 | Cape Cod Times
Contamination may once have been a deal-breaker in the search for new drinking water supplies, but is now so widespread that a supplier would be lucky to find a pristine source.
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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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[Podcast] The true cost of PFAS
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26 Jul 2021 | Whooshkaa
Alissa Cordner, an Environmental Sociologist and Associate Professor at Whitman College, discusses a recent commentary paper "The True Cost of PFAS and the Benefits of Acting Now" which was published in Environment Science and Technology Journal.
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PFAS update: Current state-by-state groundwater regulations
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21 Jul 2021 | JD Supra
States have adopted a patchwork of regulations and guidance standards which presents significant compliance challenges to impacted industries.
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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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Prospective associations of mid-childhood plasma per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and pubertal timing
Science
6 Jul 2021 | Environ Int
Higher PFAS plasma concentrations in mid-childhood were associated with the later onset of puberty in girls.
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Massachusetts and California Bills Target PFAS in Cookware
Policy
29 Jun 2021
Massachusetts and California have pending bills that would impact the use of PFAS in cookware.
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[Blog] The Chemistry Council’s PFAS disinformation campaign
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22 Jun 2021 | PEER
PEER is urging EPA to regulate PFAS as a class of chemicals, only allow essential uses of PFAS, and to classify all forms of waste contaminated with PFAS as a hazardous waste under the Resource Conservation Recovery Act.
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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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Firehouses as cancer clusters
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16 Mar 2021 | Healthy Living
Cancer is rampant among firefighters.