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[Press Release] Upcoming NY State Department of Health vote on PFAS in drinking water to take place while DOH stalls on disclosing critical public comments
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23 Jul 2020 | Earthjustice
The public and advocates are left in the dark about the basis for changes to the proposal, on which a vote will take place next week.
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A Database Framework for Rapid Screening of Structure-Function Relationships in PFAS Chemistry
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7 Jul 2020 | ChemRxiv
This paper describes a database framework that enables one to rapidly explore systematics in structure-function relationships associated with new and emerging PFAS chemistries.
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Destroying forever chemicals ignites N.Y. town’s ‘worst fears’
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26 Jun 2020 | Bloomberg Law
When Joe Ritchie was a kid growing up near an upstate New York incinerator, it wasn’t unusual to find black soot on windowsills around the house. But in the last few years, there’s been a new odor in the neighborhood, that smells as if someone has been dumping household chemicals in a tub and lighting them on fire.
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State Legislature passes legislation prohibiting incineration of AFFF with PFAS
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11 Jun 2020 | The Record
This New York state level action would solidify the one-year moratorium on incineration unanimously adopted by the Cohoes Common Council on April 28.
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These tiny, self-assembling traps capture PFAS
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27 May 2020 | University at Buffalo
The iron-based tetrahedral cages capture a subset of PFAS with chains of six or more fluorinated carbon atoms, including perfluorocarboxylic acids, sulfonic acids and fluorotelomers.
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Removal of eight perfluoroalkyl acids from aqueous solutions by aeration and duckweed
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19 May 2020 | Sci the Total Env
With duckweed, >95% of long chain PFAS at 200 ppb were removed after 2 weeks.
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Controversy over incinerator-linked PFAS in New York draws scrutiny from federal lawmakers
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14 May 2020 | Waste Dive
Norlite’s Cohoes incinerator, one of nine facilities nationwide approved to burn PFAS-laden firefighting foam, has stated it is not currently accepting the foam pending EPA research.
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Persistent organic pollutant exposure and celiac disease: A pilot study
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13 May 2020 | Environ. Res.
Females found to be at higher risk of celiac disease associated with exposure to PFOS and PFOA.
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Officials seek to prohibit incineration of firefighting foam
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3 Mar 2020 | Troy Record
Despite the fact that the safety of incineration as a method to dispose of PFAS firefighting foam is still being evaluated by the US EPA, the DOD entered into a contract with the Norlite facility in Cohoes, to incinerate PFAS firefighting foam without appropriate environmental review and was previously incinerating PFAS foam at the facility.
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Fecal Excretion of Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Pets from New York State, United States
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13 Feb 2020 | Environ Sci Technol. Let.
The estimated daily fecal excretion suggested that both dogs and cats are exposed to some PFASs at doses above the provisional minimum risk level recommended for humans.
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Clarkson University researchers & U.S. Air Force use plasma to remove PFAS
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20 Jan 2020 | WQP
The plasma zaps the water's surface, where it spreads, hitting PFAS molecules and splitting them. Once the carbon and fluorine molecules have been separated, the PFAS compound is destroyed.
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NY bans use of toxic chemical in firefighting foam
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11 Jan 2020 | NBC Universal
New York plans to restrict the use of firefighting foam that contains certain chemicals that have the potential to contaminate groundwater.
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New York moves to ban ‘forever chemicals’ in firefighting foam
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26 Dec 2019 | Bloomberg Environment
New York enacted a ban on the use, manufacture, sale, or distribution of firefighting foam and equipment containing fluorinated chemicals known as PFAS, unless no viable alternatives are available.
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Hierarchically porous polymer coatings for highly efficient passive daytime radiative cooling
Science
11 Dec 2019 | Science
PFAS were used to develop reflective coatings used to keep buildings cool.
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Clean drinking water options for Hoosick Falls considered
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21 Oct 2019 | Bennington Banner
Connecting to the existing Troy system was seen as the most expensive, at $48.5 million; connecting to a new untreated surface water source from the Tomhannock, at $34.4 million; continued filtering of existing village wells plus a remediation system for contaminants at McCaffrey Street, $10.1 million; development of a new village well water sources, at $6.9 million, and continued use of filtering alone at the existing village wells at $6.3 million. Comments on the report will be accepted until Nov. 18.