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Are there forever chemicals in your water? Here's the latest data.
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5 Dec 2025 | USA Today
Since the EPA last updated these records in August, over 100 additional public drinking water systems have reported yearly averages of PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, that exceed new limits the EPA approved in 2024.
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EPA approves new pesticide with PFAS, sparking health concerns
Policy
28 Nov 2025
The EPA said in its approval documents that it found “no human-health risks of concern when used as directed.” Several experts dispute that conclusion and argue that the agency’s review did not fully account for how PFAS accumulate in soil and water or how they move into food.
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The Trump administration is deregulating forever chemicals
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28 Nov 2025 | Jacobin
Just this month, the EPA moved to approve two PFAS-based pesticides for use on crops, including tomatoes, peas, and lettuce. Despite the chemicals’ known dangers, the EPA created a new web page to assure the public of the “robust, chemical-specific process” that the agency uses to approve any pesticide.
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The unintentional role of chemical regulation in regrettable substitution: The case of PFAS
Science
25 Nov 2025 | ES&P
The authors argue that regulatory systems like TSCA and REACH may unintentionally drive regrettable PFAS substitutions by allowing insufficiently assessed alternatives onto the market, highlighting the policy significance of shifting toward earlier hazard evaluation, coordinated global oversight, and mechanisms to prevent substitution with equally persistent or hazardous chemicals.
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‘Toxic Soup’: PFAS and other contaminants surged in French Broad River after Helene
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24 Nov 2025 | NC Health News
Among the chemicals detected were 11 types of PFAS, including PFOA and PFOS, which the study found at levels exceeding the Environmental Protection Agency’s maximum contaminant levels of 4 parts per trillion.
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EPA Seeks Comment in Effort To Loosen Decade of Forever-Chemical Reporting
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14 Nov 2025 | Newsweek
Specifically, if PFAS make up 0.1 percent or less of an item or mixture, the company that makes it would be exempt from the reporting requirement.
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[Public Comment] EPA Seeks Comment in Effort To Loosen Decade of Forever-Chemical Reporting
Policy
13 Nov 2025
The proposed change, announced on Monday, would loosen the reporting requirements manufacturers face when disclosing their use of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
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A dangerous chemical may be in your tap water — But the Trump admin doesn’t want you to know that
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3 Nov 2025 | The Huffington Post
The Trump administration is delaying the publication of a report about a harmful “forever chemical” known as perfluorononanoic acid, or PFNA, discovered in 28 states’ tap water.
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Trump EPA seeks to weaken scrutiny for some of US’s most toxic chemicals
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22 Oct 2025 | The Guardian
If implemented, the new rule would shorten the time it takes to review chemicals, and alter the methodology used to assess their dangers.
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Evaluating environmental health communication: The readability of factsheets about per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)
Science
20 Oct 2025 | Int. J. Hyg. Environ. Health.
Most PFAS factsheets published by government agencies are written at a college reading level, use too much complex language, and rarely include visuals or clear summaries, making them hard for the public to understand and showing the need for simpler wording, better design, and use of communication tools to improve readability.
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[Press Release] Ranking Member Pingree: Trump’s EPA is Failing to Protect Americans from ‘Forever Chemical’ Contamination
Policy
16 Oct 2025
Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Interior and Environment Subcommittee, is calling for transparency and immediate action from the EPA after it was reported the Agency is withholding a long-delayed PFAS risk assessment.
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EPA moves to allow more PFAS in drinking water
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15 Oct 2025 | Environment America
The current U.S. EPA is moving to weaken that rule—including rescinding the limits for four of those PFAS chemicals and delaying limits on the other two.
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Current knowledge about per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the atmosphere: Fate, analytical methods and research priorities
Science
13 Oct 2025 | Chemosphere
PFAS can escape into the air from factories, firefighting foams, landfills, and wastewater plants, move long distances in gases and tiny particles, cycle back through rain and sea spray, accumulate indoors, and expose people by breathing or skin contact even far from the source.
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Court dismisses lawsuit alleging EPA failed to protect farmers from PFAS in fertilizer
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2 Oct 2025 | The New Lede
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday dismissed the lawsuit on the grounds that the court does not have jurisdiction to make a ruling in the case, wrote Judge Dabney Friedrich in her opinion.
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EPA’s Move to Reduce PFAS Regs Tied Up in Courts
Policy
1 Oct 2025
The issue is now pending in the D.C. Circuit Court, with utilities, chemical companies, and community groups all weighing in on whether the EPA can legally revoke its own rule.