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$27M DuPont PFAS contamination class action settlement
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5 Jan 2026 | Top Class Actions
DuPont agreed to a $27 million class action lawsuit settlement to resolve claims it contaminated drinking water in Hoosick Falls, New York, with PFOA.
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Popular Imported Fish Carry Human Health Risks, Study Reveals
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31 Dec 2025 | Newsweek
Researchers found that imported fish brought into regions with relatively low environmental pollution contained significant levels of PFAS, raising concerns about food safety worldwide.
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State officials move to ban paper straws at restaurants, citing 'concerning health risks'
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31 Dec 2025 | Fox News
Researchers found PFAS chemicals in 27 of 39 different straw variants, concluding the chemicals were most likely used as a water-repellent coating in Florida.
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How global seafood trade is moving ‘forever chemicals’ from contaminated waters to dinner plates
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19 Dec 2025 | The Independent
Fish from parts of Asia and Oceania, including Saudi Arabia, Thailand, and Australia’s eastern coast, showed the highest PFAS concentrations relative to the global average, while fish from Africa and North America had the lowest.
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U.S. military rejects Okinawa access requests over PFAS findings
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19 Dec 2025 | The Japan Times
The reply says that inspections could be considered only if there were agreed upon environmental standards enabling both sides to properly assess sampling results and clear scientific evidence identifying U.S. facilities as the pollution source.
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Reevaluating PFAS exposure risks from marine fish
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18 Dec 2025 | Science
A global modeling analysis finds that legacy PFAS exposure from marine fish may now be low for most countries due to production phaseouts, yet remains higher in places with very high seafood intake such as Greenland and Denmark, offering important insight for refining fish consumption guidance and noting where potential risk persists.
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Mark Ruffalo-produced documentary chronicles 8-year PFAS fight
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17 Dec 2025 | Port City Daily
Documentary “GenX: The Saga of Forever Chemicals,” directed by Wilmingtonian Elijah Yetter-Bowman and produced by well-known actor and environmental activist Mark Ruffalo, takes a comprehensive look at the contamination that has plagued the Cape Fear region for decades.
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Determination of analytical interferences for 4:2 fluorotelomer sulfonic acid in multiple agricultural matrices
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16 Dec 2025 | J Agric Food Chem
Naturally occurring oxidized fatty acids in crops were found to generate the same mass-spectrometric signals as 4:2 FTS, which could lead to potentially inaccurate PFAS measurements in agricultural products and may warrant careful method evaluation before results are reported.
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PFAS Action group announces interactive map collecting ‘Eat Safe Fish’ guidelines for Michigan
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11 Dec 2025 | Michigan Advance
On Tuesday, the group launched its 'Eat Safe Fish' mapping tool, which it developed in collaboration with the Ecology Center, collecting the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services 2025 'Do Not Eat' and consumption limitation advisories into an interactive map.
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A Dominating Role of Functional Groups in Short-Chain Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance (PFAS) Accumulation by Fruiting Plants
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11 Dec 2025 | Environ Sci Technol
Tomato plants were found to preferentially move short-chain PFAS with carboxylic acid groups into fruits while sulfonic acid PFAS are largely retained in roots and leaves, which could influence potential dietary exposure and guide crop choices in contaminated areas.
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Synthetic chemicals in food system creating health burden of $2.2tn a year, report finds
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10 Dec 2025 | The Guardian
Scientists have issued an urgent warning that some of the synthetic chemicals that help underpin the current food system are driving increased rates of cancer, neurodevelopmental conditions and infertility, while degrading the foundations of global agriculture.
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Occurrence and risk assessment of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in wastewater and drinking water in Colombia
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8 Dec 2025 | ACS ES&T Water
Several PFAS, particularly PFHxA and PFHpA, may present potential health concerns in Colombian drinking water since their estimated intake levels surpassed the United States Lifetime Health Advisory screening level for mixtures.
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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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EWG to Lee Zeldin: PFAS pesticides are bad news, not ‘fake news’
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2 Dec 2025 | EWG
The EPA uses a narrow definition of PFAS that excludes PFAS pesticides it’s recently approved. Under this definition, only three currently approved pesticide active ingredients would be considered PFAS: broflanilide, pyrifluquinazon and noviflumuron.
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More cities are seeing PFAS pollution in drinking water. Here’s what Louisville found
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1 Dec 2025 | NPR
At the Louisville Water Co., the team's calculations eventually showed that the December 2024 spike in GenX levels corresponded to publicly-available data from Chemours, about its chemical discharges into the Ohio River.