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California governor under pressure over bill to ban cookware made with PFAS
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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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[Video] How an at-home device could help you detect PFAS in your drinking water
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2 Oct 2025 | CBS News
Researchers with the University of Chicago have teamed up with Argonne National Labs in Lemont to detect the smallest chemicals in our water in an effort to make it safer and healthier for all.
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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.
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Maine PFAS Fund opens second round of agricultural research grants
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1 Oct 2025 | NEWS CENTER Maine
The funding is the second round from the state’s PFAS Fund, created to help farmers manage contamination. The program supports research aimed at helping farmers maintain operations and protect food safety despite PFAS exposure.
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3M might just escape its toxic chemical legacy
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30 Sep 2025 | Businessweek
Decades of selling PFAS left the iconic American manufacturer mired in legal liabilities. A new CEO is hoping to spark a turnaround.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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New Hampshire receives first PFAS settlement payment of nearly $8 million from 3M company
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25 Sep 2025 | WMUR
The payment is the first installment of a $56 million settlement with the state over PFAS contamination in water, soil, and other natural resources.