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UMass Amherst study: PFAS move from mom to fetus at higher rate in women with gestational diabetes
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17 Jul 2019 | American Association for the Advancement of Science
A University of Massachusetts Amherst environmental epidemiologist studying the presence of PFAS compounds in new mothers and their babies found that women with gestational diabetes had a ‘significantly higher’ rate of transferring the synthetic chemicals to their fetus.
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Perfluoroalkyl substances in older male anglers in Wisconsin
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15 Jul 2019 | Envionment International
Exposure to PFAS leads to endocrine disruption in adult fishermen.
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Evaluation of the airborne pollution by emerging contaminants using bitter orange (Citrus aurantium) tree leaves as biosamplers
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15 Jul 2019 | Science of The Total Environment
Citrus tree leaves used to collect airborne pollutants such as PFAS.
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Screening of textile finishing agents available on the Chinese market: An important source of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances to the environment
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15 Jul 2019 | Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering
Testing shows that long-chain PFAS are used in the manufacturing of textiles in levels above European Chemical Agency guidelines.
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The Air Force polluted 4 SC bases with a toxic firefighting foam, didn’t tell neighbors
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13 Jul 2019 | The Post and Courier
Four Air Force bases in South Carolina are severely contaminated with chemicals that scientists continue to investigate for possible links to thyroid disease, pregnancy complications, and kidney and testicular cancers.
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Trump promises to veto a bill banning the military from using toxic products with PFAS
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11 Jul 2019 | Pacific Standard
US President Donald Trump threatened to veto a defense spending bill with an amendment that restricts the use of a toxic chemical compound found in firefighting foams. Several provisions in the bill, introduced in the House of Representatives, would require the United States Department of Defense to switch to safer foams without PFAS... The bill would also require the military to pay to clean up sites where its activities have contaminated the water, including farms and watersheds, and classify the areas as Superfund sites.
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Mediation proposed for Wolverine PFAS municipal water dispute
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11 Jul 2019 | MLive
Wolverine World Wide will enter ‘structured, confidential’ mediation under proposed settlement discussions with the state of Michigan and two Kent County townships, which want the shoemaker to pay for extending municipal water to areas where its tannery waste has contaminated the groundwater.
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Accumulation of perfluoroalkyl substances in lysimeter-grown rice in Japan using tap water and simulated contaminated water
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8 Jul 2019 | Chemosphere
PFAS accumulation in rice linked to high exposures due to human consumption and use of the rice plant for animal feed and organic fertilizer.
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3M to test for more chemicals leaking into river in Decatur
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8 Jul 2019 | Alabama Media Group
3M has agreed to test three closed landfills near its Decatur plant on the Tennessee River to see whether they may still be releasing PFOA and PFOS into the river or groundwater.
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Occurrence of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in a large number of wild and farmed aquatic animals collected in the Netherlands
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8 Jul 2019 | Chemosphere
Wild caught and farm raised marine fish meant for human consumption contained detectable levels of PFOS.
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3M stock is the biggest loser in the Dow today. This is why
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5 Jul 2019 | Barron’s
3M has hit a rough patch, facing new environmental liabilities at the same time that global economic growth is slowing. The concerns have led investors to sell 3M stock (ticker: MMM), driving down its price by more than 20% from its 52-week high.
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Chemours says DuPont lowballed environmental liabilities
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1 Jul 2019 | Washington Post
Chemours, a spinoff of DuPont’s Performance Chemicals unit, filed a recently unsealed lawsuit against DuPont, claiming that the maximum liability exposure figures that DuPont certified prior to the spinoff have proven to be “systematically and spectacularly wrong.”
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Occurrence and Distribution of Organic and Inorganic Pollutants in Groundwater
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22 Jun 2019 | Water Environ. Res.
A comprehensive review of studies published in 2018, dealing with groundwater and pollution.
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PFAS chemical contamination will cost Alaska millions
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20 Jun 2019 | Juneau Empire
“PFAS contamination is a widespread problem in Alaska and the U.S., and addressing it is going to be costly. ... This fiscal year, two state departments... have so far spent almost $1 million collectively on PFAS-related costs, according to department figures. About 10 times that could be spent around the state over the next five years…
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Dr. Linda Birnbaum on “forever chemicals”
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17 Jun 2019
From the 2nd Annual National PFAS Conference - Linda Birnbaum, Ph.D. of the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences. Excerpt from the upcoming documentary "GenX: A Chemical Cocktail" which outlines the worst pollution crisis in global history. Specifically, the decades long contamination of food, air and water by chemicals called "PFASs".