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PEER Files Request for Correction Regarding Verification Analysis for PFAS in Pesticide Products
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31 May 2024 | The National Law Review
According to PEER, “[i]n an effort to protect its reputation,” EPA issued false statements that the pesticides it tested contained no detectable PFAS.
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Non-Targeted PFAS Suspect Screening and Quantification of Drinking Water Samples Collected through Community Engaged Research in North Carolina's Cape Fear River Basin
Science
31 May 2024 | Toxics
A community-engaged research approach in North Carolina discovered that drinking water samples from the Cape Fear River basin contained several PFAS compounds, including PFOA and PFOS levels that exceeded the EPA's limit of 4 ng/L, and these results were shared with local residents to help them reduce their exposure.
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New bill could bail out US farmers ruined by ‘forever chemical’ pollution
Policy
30 May 2024
The bipartisan proposal that would remediate farms affected by toxic PFAS contamination is gaining speed in Congress.
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Alarming levels of ‘forever chemicals’ found in water near Bangladesh garment factories
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29 May 2024 | The Guardian
Study confirms huge concentrations of potentially dangerous PFAS in rivers, lakes and taps in Dhaka.
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EPA accused of ‘egregious’ misconduct in PFAS testing of pesticides
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28 May 2024 | The Guardian
US agency found PFOS and other types of PFAS in pesticides but failed to disclose those results, watchdog group alleges.
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Machine learning–enhanced molecular network reveals global exposure to hundreds of unknown PFAS
Science
24 May 2024 | Sci Adv
Using machine learning, an automatic PFAS identification platform accurately identified unknown PFAS chemicals in environmental samples, offering improved performance over current methods and revealing numerous previously undetected PFAS in wastewater and other global samples.
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San Francisco bans PFAS from firefighter gear to combat cancer risk
Policy
24 May 2024
San Francisco has become the first major U.S. city to ban PFAS chemicals from its firefighters' protective gear, aiming to reduce the elevated cancer risk among firefighters.
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Maine Amends Its PFAS Statute, Exempting Certain Product Categories from the Sales Prohibition and Eliminating the General Notification Requirement
Policy
24 May 2024
The legislation also creates new sales prohibitions for products with intentionally added PFAS with varying effective dates, expands the exemption of certain product categories from the prohibitions, and establishes a new reporting program for those product categories that receive a currently unavoidable use determination from MDEP.
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EPA announces $18.9M in funding to address PFAS contamination in New Mexico
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24 May 2024 | New Mexico Political Report
While the funding announced on Thursday will help water utilities, including mutual domestics, communities that rely on well water such as La Cienega and La Cieneguilla will not benefit from this round of funding despite having had wells test positive for PFAS contamination.
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Current understanding on the transformation and fate of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances before, during, and after thermal treatment of biosolids
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24 May 2024 | J. Chem. Eng.
Thermal treatment methods like incineration, pyrolysis, and gasification can potentially destroy PFAS in biosolids, but optimizing treatment conditions and understanding the complete process remains challenging.
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Kalamazoo focuses on 2 pump stations to meet new federal PFAS standards
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24 May 2024 | Wood TV
Kalamazoo is asking the state for $51 million to help get rid of PFAS from its water on the city’s east side.
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Closed West Tisbury landfill called PFAS source
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23 May 2024 | MV Times
The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection has labeled the closed and capped West Tisbury landfill as a source of PFAS, the latest confirmed contamination on the Island of chemicals that are associated with a variety of health effects.
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BASF settles PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ water contamination lawsuit for $316.5 million
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21 May 2024 | Fast Company
The money provided by the settlement, which must be approved by a federal judge, will help cities, towns and other public water systems remediate contamination of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS.
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A multi-platform approach for the comprehensive analysis of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and fluorine mass balance in commercial ski wax products
Science
21 May 2024 | Analytica Chimica Acta
The fluorine content of ski waxes was tested, finding that while traditional analytical methods identified only a small fraction of fluorine as extractable organic fluorine, the majority remained unidentified, suggesting the presence of other PFAS not detected by standard techniques, which highlights the need for more comprehensive analysis methods in assessing PFAS exposure risks in consumer products.
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‘Forever chemicals’ entering Great Lakes through precipitation and air: Study
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20 May 2024 | The Hill
Toxic “forever chemicals” are entering the Great Lakes through both precipitation and the air — reaching cities of all sizes along the U.S. and Canadian shores, a new study has found.