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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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From carboxylates to chlorinated sulfonates: Contrasting fate and treatment prospects of GenX and F53B in WWTPs
Science
13 Oct 2025 | Science of The Total Environment
In wastewater systems, GenX was found to largely persist in the aqueous phase with minimal degradation, while F-53B partitions to sludge and undergoes limited breakdown, and advanced treatments like UV with sulfite or electrochemical oxidation outperform conventional processes, though byproducts and limited field data remain concerns.
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Advocates raise alarm over PFAS pollution from datacenters amid AI boom
News
9 Oct 2025 | The Guardian
Tech companies’ use of PFAS gas at facilities may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought.
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Long-awaited report reveals electrical fault likely caused Brunswick PFAS spill
News
6 Oct 2025 | Central Maine
A fault in an electric module likely caused Maine’s largest reported spill of toxic firefighting foam, a new report on the spill’s root cause has concluded.
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Wisconsin moves to bring PFAS limits in line with contested federal standards
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3 Oct 2025 | Wisconsin Public Radio
Environmental advocates are urging state regulators to bring Wisconsin’s PFAS standards in line with federal drinking water standards despite an ongoing legal challenge to the federal rules.
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California governor under pressure over bill to ban cookware made with PFAS
News
3 Oct 2025 | The Guardian
Gavin Newsom, the California governor, is facing intense pressure from industry, and even some celebrity chefs, as he weighs whether or not to sign a bill that bans the sale of cookware made with PFAS or “forever chemicals”.
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EU imposes limits on PFAS chemicals in fire-fighting foams
Policy
3 Oct 2025
With these restrictions, it estimates cutting the emissions and production of about 470 tonnes of this type of chemical, along with the associated risks to the environment, soil, and water.
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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.
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Illinois bans PFAS in firefighter gear
Policy
29 Sep 2025
Illinois firefighters will soon be protected by gear free of PFAS — toxic “forever chemicals” linked to cancer — under a new law signed by Gov. JB Pritzker.
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$9.7 million in settlement funding going exclusively to removing PFAS in water
News
29 Sep 2025 | KCCI
Just under $10 million will go towards mitigating forever chemicals, or PFAS, in central Iowa's water sources.
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Advancing the understanding of PFAS-induced reproductive toxicity in key model species
Science
29 Sep 2025 | Environ Sci Process Impacts
Across model species, PFAS commonly impair reproduction, in rodents they damage ovaries and testes, disrupt sex hormones, and weaken the blood-testis barrier, in fish they reveal reduced fecundity and abnormal development under chronic, environmentally relevant, transgenerational tests, and in C. elegans they cause heritable declines in fertility and locomotion.
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Health emergency declaration discussed for West Plains PFAS crisis
News
27 Sep 2025 | Range
A new task force is providing the first official county response to the ‘forever chemicals’ crisis on the West Plains of Washington state. Its leaders are considering declaring a state emergency that would mobilize response funds.
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Dangerous Forever Chemicals Found at This State’s Beaches
News
27 Sep 2025 | Newsweek
Officials have discovered toxic levels of PFAS, in sea foam along North Carolina beaches, the American Chemical Society announced this week.
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ALJ Disapproves Minnesota’s Proposed PFAS Rule Package Pending Correction
News
26 Sep 2025 | The National Law Review
An administrative law judge rejected Minnesota’s proposed PFAS reporting rule, citing procedural failures, conflicts with statutory language, and unreasonable fee structures, while offering recommendations for revisions before the rule can proceed.
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Unmasking PFAS
News
26 Sep 2025 | The National Law Review
The Aqueous Film-Forming Foam (AFFF) multidistrict litigation is using a new process that gathers data from AFFF sites to link specific PFAS-based firefighting foams and their manufacturers to alleged contamination aiming to streamline liability decisions.