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[Press Release] Study: More than 200 million Americans could have toxic PFAS in their drinking water
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16 Oct 2020 | EurekAlert
PFAS pollution is affecting even more Americans than we previously estimated. They are likely detectable in all major water supplies in the U.S., almost certainly in all that use surface water.
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Gillibrand joins letter urging management of dangerous fire suppressant chemicals that contaminated Fort Drum
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14 Oct 2020 | NNY 360
The letter details how PFAS have become a major contaminant in drinking water sources for more than 650 American military bases across the world.
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Young, Senate colleagues urge inclusion in NDAA of toxic chemical prevention provisions
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13 Oct 2020 | Ripon Advance News Service
The bipartisan group of lawmakers is requesting inclusion of several provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act that would help prevent the potential harm caused by toxic PFAS at American military bases.
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Pease Health Study on PFAS in water set to resume
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9 Oct 2020 | Seacoast Online
Thousands of people working at Pease International Tradeport, along with children and infants who attended two day cares there, were exposed to multiple PFAS chemicals from contaminated water in the city-owned Haven well until its closure in 2014. The water was contaminated by firefighting foam used at the former Pease Air Force Base.
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California law bans toxic PFAS from firefighting foam
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30 Sep 2020 | EWG
The law bans the manufacture, sale and use of firefighting foam containing PFAS from use in most applications by January 1, 2022.
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Air Force won’t follow NH’s new PFAS water safeguards
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18 Sep 2020 | Seacoastonline.com
U.S. Air Force officials said they will continue to follow the EPA’s “lifetime health advisory” for PFAS and not New Hampshire’s more protective standards.
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Judge rules for NH in 3M’s bid to block PFAS protections
Policy
8 Sep 2020
A Merrimack County judge has vacated a preliminary injunction previously granted to chemical company giant 3M, which sought to block the implementation of more protective PFAS standards.
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Vermont Agency of Natural Resource's Advance Notice on the Regulation of PFAS as a Class
Policy
26 Aug 2020
After reviewing the current peer-reviewed literature, as well as the available toxicology data for PFAS, the Agency's Review Team determined that at the current time it is not feasible to regulate PFAS as a Class, other than the five compounds presently regulated to the health-based standard.
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Thousands allowed to bypass environmental rules in pandemic
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24 Aug 2020 | Associated Press
North Carolina allowed Chemours Co., which is cleaning up PFAS in drinking water, to pause sampling of residential wells. Saint-Gobain, whose New Hampshire plant has been linked by the state to water contaminated with PFAS, has requested delaying smokestack upgrades.
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Effect of PFAS on children’s immune system studied
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17 Aug 2020 | Foster's Daily Democrat
Testing For Pease is the community partner of the Silent Spring Institute for a children’s health study looking at how PFAS impacts immune function in kids. They hope to get 60 children from the Pease community and 60 from Cape Cod for their study.
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The latest on PFAS and drinking water
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12 Aug 2020 | EHS Daily Advisor
States with adopted PFAS limits in drinking water include CA, CT, CO, MN, NC, NH, NJ, and VT, and states with proposed limits include IL, MA, MI, and NY.
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Veto keeps personal injury lawyers from making millions on no-injury cases
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10 Aug 2020 | Legal Newsline
New Hampshire’s governor has vetoed legislation that would have allowed those exposed to hazardous or toxic substances such as PFAS to make a claim for medical monitoring damages.
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Opinion: Lasting health impacts of PFAS will rival our past public-health failures
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11 Jul 2020 | ecoRI News
PFAS will one day, perhaps soon, join the long list of profitable poisons that were allowed to sicken us and damage the environment long after their dangers were first discovered.
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Bill to force chemical companies to pay for medical monitoring hits GOP resistance
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28 Jun 2020 | Concord Monitor
Some in opposition believe that the legislation is too far-reaching and should have been centered on PFAS cases, not all toxic chemical cases.
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PFAS maker 3M pays utility’s legal fees in state regulatory fight
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12 Jun 2020 | Bloomberg News
Corporate giant and PFAS maker 3M Co. is underwriting a legal fight by a New Hampshire water utility to have tough new regulatory rules thrown out, an unusual partnership that has alarmed local environmental activists.