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Maine lawmakers enact series of bills to tackle pollution from ‘forever chemicals’
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23 Jun 2021 | Press Herald
One of the bills signed into law this week by Gov. Janet Mills gives Maine one of the nation's strictest standards for PFAS in drinking water.
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[Press Release] PFAS Action Act clears House energy committee
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16 Jun 2021 | EWG
The legislation would create a national drinking water standard for select PFAS chemicals, designate PFAS as hazardous substances, limit industrial discharges and provide $200 million annually to assist water utilities and wastewater treatment facilities.
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Officials push for national PFAS drinking water standard
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9 Jun 2021 | AP News
Setting a national drinking water standard will be important in addressing contamination at military bases and communities throughout the U.S.
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NMED investigates size of PFAS plumes
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7 Jun 2021 | NM Political Report
The investigation will look into where public and private water sources could be contaminated and how wildlife may be impacted by the chemicals in Curry and Roosevelt counties, New Mexico.
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Firefighters denied coverage by veterans affairs after exposure to PFAS firefighting foam
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5 Jun 2021 | The Intercept
The VA and insurers have rejected claims from firefighters despite evidence linking PFAS foam and disease.
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Unsaturated PFOS and Other PFASs in Human Serum and Drinking Water from an AFFF-Impacted Community.
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31 May 2021 | Environ Sci Technol
PFAS exposure levels decreased over time for all PFAS except PFPeS.
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Avoid surface water foam while recreating outdoors, health officials warn
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28 May 2021 | MLive
The “avoid foam” warnings in Michigan have been posted in communities with known PFAS contamination, such as near the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Oscoda, Lake Margrethe near Camp Grayling, the Rogue River near the former Wolverine World Wide tannery in Rockford, the Thornapple River downstream of Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids, and the Huron River from Oakland County to Lake Erie.
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PFAS blood tests in Newburgh show high levels of five chemicals
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28 May 2021 | Times Herald-Record
Participants were randomly selected from households that until 2016 received drinking water suspected to have been contaminated with firefighting foam used at the New York Stewart Air National Guard base.
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Source allocation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) with supervised machine learning: Classification performance and the role of feature selection in an expanded dataset
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24 May 2021 | Chemosphere
Supervised machine learning based on composition can identify patterns that can be used to distinguish PFAS sources.
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FluoroMatch 2.0-making automated and comprehensive non-targeted PFAS annotation a reality
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24 May 2021 | Anal Bioanal Chem
Using the newly developed FluoroMatch Flow 2 software, 1,000 individual PFAS were found in firefighting foam, including previously undescribed compounds.
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Distribution, behaviour, bioavailability and remediation of poly- and per-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in solid biowastes and biowaste-treated soil
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18 May 2021 | Environ Int
In this review, the distribution, bioavailability, and remediation of PFAS in soil receiving solid biowastes, which include biosolids, composts, and manure, are presented.
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The Case for Direct Measures of Soil-to-Groundwater Contaminant Mass Discharge at AFFF-Impacted Sites
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4 May 2021 | Environ Sci Technol
This perspective provides a rationale for why alternative approaches are critically necessary and proposes a practical solution to accurately assess PFAS transport within unsaturated vadose zone soils.
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Committee recommends stricter water standards for ‘forever chemicals’
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30 Apr 2021 | Press Herald
The proposal would set an interim standard of 20 ppt for PFAS in Maine's drinking water, in line with several other New England states and lower than the current federal health advisory level.
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[Opinion] Urgent action needed to protect Alaskans’ health, drinking water
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14 Apr 2021 | Anchorage Daily News
PFAS have been found at over 100 individual sites in nearly 30 locations across Alaska and it is likely that the number of communities with contaminated water will grow as more sampling is conducted throughout the state.
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In-Vitro and In-Silico Assessment of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Aqueous Film-Forming Foam (AFFF) Binding to Human Serum Albumin
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13 Apr 2021 | Toxics
Carboxylic acid and sulfonic acid-containing PFAS were found to bioaccumulate the most readily in human blood.