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‘We’re going after’ PFAS exposure, Biden tells firefighters
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6 Mar 2023 | E&E News
President Joe Biden wants to limit the risks firefighters face from exposure to toxic chemicals in their gear and from wildfires fueled by climate change, he said Monday.
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Deep well disposal for PFAS attracts heightened interest as new regulations loom
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6 Mar 2023 | Waste Dive
Prior U.S. EPA guidance identified deep wells as a possible alternative to landfilling or incineration for these “forever chemicals,” and multiple facilities are touting their technologies.
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Directly Fluorinated Containers as a Source of Perfluoroalkyl Carboxylic Acid
Science
6 Mar 2023 | Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett.
Leaching experiments demonstrated that PFAS from fluorinated plastic containers can migrate into food, suggesting that regulatory action is warranted.
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The Forever Pollution Project
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6 Mar 2023 | The Forever Pollution Project
“The Forever Pollution Project” can now reveal that there is way more contamination all over Europe than has been publicly known.
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‘Cancer is killing firefighters’: Union pushes to remove toxic chemicals from gear
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6 Mar 2023 | Spectrum News 1
But there’s one thing in the special fabrics of the turnout gear that union officials say doesn’t belong in their equipment: toxic PFAS chemicals
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Association of perfluoroalkyl substances with pulmonary function in adolescents (NHANES 2007–2012)
Science
4 Mar 2023 | ESPR
Exposure to PFNA may affect pulmonary function among adolescents aged 12–15 years.
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Up in the air: Polyfluoroalkyl phosphate esters (PAPs) in airborne dust captured by air conditioning (AC) filters
Science
4 Mar 2023 | Chemosphere
Polyfluoroalkyl phosphate esters accounted for over 90% of PFAS in AC filters located in school campuses and homes.
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Scotland first to ban environmentally harmful anaesthetic
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3 Mar 2023 | BBC
Scotland has become the first country in the world to stop its hospitals using the anaesthetic desflurane because of the threat it poses to the environment.
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Blumenthal announces $18 million to fight PFAS contamination in Connecticut
Policy
3 Mar 2023
The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded Connecticut $18 million to fight dangerous chemicals in drinking water.
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As EPA continues to move toward identifying PFAS as Hazardous Substances, we continue to put them in the environment. Does that make sense?
Policy
3 Mar 2023
Massachusetts State Representative Kate Hogan seems to make a lot of sense when she says, about the continued widespread use of the "forever chemicals" known as PFAS, that "if we don't prevent it, all we're doing is identifying and cleaning up.
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PFAS Lurking in Textiles, Effects on Health Subject of New Study
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3 Mar 2023 | Bloomberg Law
A newly launched study on PFAS in textiles and firefighting gear could help manufacturers comply with new regulations and spark the redesign of consumer products, companies, attorneys, and advocates say.
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Birmingham suing the same chemical companies as Birmingham Water Works for PFA contamination
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3 Mar 2023 | AL.com
Like the Birmingham Water Works – the city of Birmingham has also sued more than two dozen chemical manufacturers in South Carolina federal court over accusations of contaminating drinking water.
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PFAS bills clear first hurdle, opposition emerges from coalition of companies
Policy
2 Mar 2023
A batch of bills that would limit or ban the use of PFAS chemicals in Minnesota cleared its first legislative hurdle Thursday.
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Now We Need to Worry About Harmful 'Forever Chemicals' in Our Toilet Paper Too
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2 Mar 2023 | TIME
All of that toilet paper, including major brands sold around the world, turn out to be yet another source of PFAS.
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Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ about to get their first US limits
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2 Mar 2023 | AP
The EPA is expected to propose restrictions on harmful “forever chemicals” in drinking water after finding they are dangerous in amounts so small as to be undetectable.