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Colorado water officials create first-ever regulations for ‘forever chemical’ PFAS
News
14 Jul 2020 | CPR News
The state’s Water Quality Control Commission voted unanimously to enact a policy to put new limits on PFAS.
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New contamination at an infamous N.J. chemical plant has scientists worried
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12 Jul 2020 | NJ News
Along the Delaware River in South Jersey, where heavy industry has long contributed to polluted water, air and ground, scientists have raised the alarm over a new contamination.
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Opinion: Lasting health impacts of PFAS will rival our past public-health failures
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11 Jul 2020 | ecoRI News
PFAS will one day, perhaps soon, join the long list of profitable poisons that were allowed to sicken us and damage the environment long after their dangers were first discovered.
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Will Congress finally address toxic 'forever chemicals?'
Policy
30 Jun 2020
The haunting folk song refrain, “When will we ever learn?” could apply well to the reckless manufacture of a class of harmful chemicals called PFAS.
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Filling gaps in science exposes gaps in chemical regulation
Policy
24 Jun 2020
The regulation of chemicals should protect public health and the environment from undue risk of harm, should promote the development and use of safer alternatives to more hazardous chemicals, and should provide the public with sufficient information to understand how well chemical risks are being managed.
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PFAS maker 3M pays utility’s legal fees in state regulatory fight
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12 Jun 2020 | Bloomberg News
Corporate giant and PFAS maker 3M Co. is underwriting a legal fight by a New Hampshire water utility to have tough new regulatory rules thrown out, an unusual partnership that has alarmed local environmental activists.
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Strategies for grouping per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to protect human and environmental health
Science
11 Jun 2020 | Environ Sci Process Impacts
This assessment provides the necessary context for grouping strategies such that they can be adopted as they are, or built on further, to protect human and environmental health from potential PFAS-related effects.
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New PFAS chemical contamination discovered in New Jersey
Policy
10 Jun 2020
Government scientists suspected that the factory was releasing a dangerous PFAS chemical, and they had good reason to think so.
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Per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) current status and research needs
Science
10 Jun 2020 | Environ. Tech. & Inn.
This paper is intended to capture the shared information, comments, and current thinking related to PFAS challenges and research needs as identified by the group of expert participants; the write up is not intended to be a complete dissertation on the science and work that has been carried out.
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PFAS cleanup backers face unexpected foe: water utilities
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9 Jun 2020 | Bloomberg Law
After decades of inaction, the federal government has gotten serious about cleaning up PFAS, a class of compounds known as “forever chemicals” that have been linked to health problems and inhabit the bloodstream of nearly every American
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[Science Selection] PFAS in Food Packaging: A Hot, Greasy Exposure
Science
2 Jun 2020 | EHP
Recent scientific publications regarding PFAS in food contact materials are discussed.
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Orange County: Sue the military for PFAS contamination!
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28 May 2020 | LA Progressive
California water districts are considering a massive lawsuit over PFAS contamination of the water supply, although they’re not likely to target the largest polluter – the US military. Instead, they’ll probably go after 3M and DuPont and a handful of other companies that manufacture PFAS products.
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Orange County water districts consider massive lawsuit over PFAS contamination
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22 May 2020 | The Orange County Register
The "forever chemical" is forcing the closure of dozens of wells and increased use of more expensive imported water.
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Avoid the foam on Battle Creek, pollution officials say after tests find chemicals
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1 May 2020 | TwinCities Pioneer Press
Officials haven’t determined whether the Battle Creek contamination is related to the 3M Oakdale dumpsite.
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EPA is abandoning those suffering from toxic PFAS pollution
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26 Apr 2020 | The Hill
A year ago, the EPA promised Congress that, after years of stalling, it would finally move forward on regulation of two notorious ‘forever chemicals,’ PFOA and PFOS. The notice that eventually appeared in the Federal Register on March 10, 2020, however, is not a regulation; it is merely a proposal to consider regulation.