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Sustainable PFAS removal from electronics wastewater through a cost-health trade-off framework
Science
6 Feb 2026 | Environ. Sci. Technol.
Upstream treatment of PFAS in electronics and semiconductor wastewater could substantially reduce projected human toxicity at costs that appear modest relative to industry market value, although trade-offs vary by region and removal stringency as manufacturing growth may drive increasing releases.
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PFAS regulation and enforcement accelerate in Germany
Policy
30 Jan 2026
Germany is transposing EU drinking water rules into national law, introducing binding PFAS limits and tighter monitoring, while EU restrictions on firefighting foams and broader class-based controls advance.
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Timeline of PFAS cleanup near Fairchild quietly pushed back 6 years
News
30 Jan 2026 | KXLY
"Well, it's been so long since 2017 of talking about it investigating, discussing but yet not a drop of PFAS has yet been scooped up out of the ground or at the water," said John Hancock, president of the West Plains Water Coalition and a resident whose home is impacted by the contamination in Washington State.
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Lithium helps reduce PFAS to reusable fluorine
News
29 Jan 2026 | C&EN
They found that lithium indeed helps break 95% of the strong carbon-fluorine bonds in perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), a common PFAS.
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New filtration technology could be gamechanger in removal of PFAS ‘forever chemicals
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23 Jan 2026 | The Guardian
“We’re going to need as many technologies as we can possibly find to deal with PFAS in drinking water, and if this works to scale on wastewater, then it would be really something to pay attention to,” said Laura Orlando, a PFAS researcher with the Just Zero non-profit and a civil engineer who works on waste-management design.
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NT town of Katherine home of Australia's best tasting tap water, nine years after PFAS detected
News
9 Jan 2026 | ABC News
After years of delays, the plant started running last year – prompting Power and Water to enter Katherine's tap water into the WIOA competition for the first time.
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[Opinion] Chemists must learn from PFAS to avoid similar mistakes
News
6 Jan 2026 | C&EN
Chemists now face a reckoning over how persistence is defined, rewarded, and regulated and how lessons from PFAS are carried forward into future chemical design.
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Unforeseen risks due to the use of fluorinated materials for per-and polyfluoroalkyl substance removal
Science
30 Dec 2025 | Nature
Researchers report that fluorinated materials used for PFAS removal may inadvertently release additional fluorinated compounds during production, use, or disposal, suggesting that non-fluorinated alternatives offer safer options for treatment technologies.
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U.S. military rejects Okinawa access requests over PFAS findings
News
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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Tokyo says no to Okinawa’s funding request for ‘forever chemical’ cleanup
News
14 Nov 2025 | Stars and Stripes
State Minister Masahisa Miyazaki said the ministry cannot pay for plant maintenance, including filter replacement, under the current legal framework
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Chemical giant blames carpet makers for north Georgia PFAS contamination
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13 Nov 2025 | Atlanta News First
The filing shows the two industries are now pointing fingers at each other in multiple pending lawsuits filed by homeowners and local governments that claim both carpet manufacturers and 3M are to blame for water contamination.
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NJ Residents to Receive $4.9 Million Settlement for PFAS Contamination in Drinking Water
News
31 Oct 2025 | Inside Climate News
The case could become a template for other communities whose water has been contaminated with the chemicals.
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How is California Phasing Out the Use of Forever Chemicals?
News
24 Oct 2025 | Sustainability Magazine
The move, led by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, sets science-based limits for PFAS in drinking water and complements new legislative measures to phase out their use in consumer products.
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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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Regenerable water remediation platform for ultrafast capture and mineralization of per‐and polyfluoroalkyl substances
Science
25 Sep 2025 | Adv Mater.
Researchers report that an engineered layered mineral may enable rapid capture of PFAS from water and partial conversion of the bound compounds into more stable mineral forms, suggesting a potentially scalable approach that links removal with destruction.