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Landmark class action over PFAS contamination in Australia announced by Erin Brockovich
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29 Sep 2019 | ABC News
It's the largest class action Australia has ever seen — four times larger than the Black Saturday class action of 2009 — and involves people across the country.
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Hazardous PFAS chemicals in Georgia’s drinking water
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16 Sep 2019 | Journ of Sci. Policy & Gov.
Policy memo recommends the state of Georgia adopts a maximum contaminant level for PFAS of 27 ppt, in water.
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Evaluation of perfluoroalkyl substances in field-cultivated vegetables
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16 Sep 2019 | Chemosphere
Different PFAS accumulate in various types of vegetables.
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Concerns rise over tainted sewage sludge spread on croplands
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12 Sep 2019 | Associated Press
Several states are examining sewage sludge for PFAS contamination and assessing potential dangers. Maine has enacted a nonbinding advisory level for PFAS in sludge and New Hampshire is working with the U.S. Geological Survey on a soil study whose results will help them set a standard. Maine also found most biosolids from more than 30 wastewater treatment plants were above the state's advisory level while neighboring New Hampshire detected PFAS in tests of sludge from two dozen permit holders. Neither state found traceable levels of PFAS in the milk tested. Based on sludge tests at 41 plants, Michigan ordered several to stop distributing it to farms.
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PFAS toxins found in drinking water throughout Southern California
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3 Sep 2019 | The Orange County Register
Wells of nearly two dozen Southern California water agencies have reportable levels of PFAS, a chemical family increasingly linked to cancer, liver and kidney damage, thyroid disease, high cholesterol, low fertility, low birth weight and ulcerative colitis.
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Germany, Southeastern Bavaria: PFOA and ADONA releases from 3M/Dyneon fluropolymer plant
Policy
29 Aug 2019
Available resources on PFOA and ADONA releases from 3M/Dyneon fluropolymer plant around Gendorf/Altötting, Germany
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Plant Uptake of PFAAs Under a Maximum Bioavailability Scenario
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20 Aug 2019 | Environ. Toxicol. Chem.
PFAS accumulation in radish, carrots, and alfalfa found to be a potential source of human dietary exposure.
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Can biochar and designer biochar be used to remediate per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) and lead and antimony contaminated soils?
Science
13 Aug 2019 | Science of Total Envionment
Coconut based biochars linked to efficient PFAS remediation in soils.
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Germany, Central and North Baden: PFAS in paper sludge & agriculture
Policy
7 Aug 2019
Information on PFAS contamination of agricultural land and drinking water resources in Germany by paper sludge application.
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New Mexico Governor says EPA abandoned state in fight against toxic 'forever chemicals'
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7 Aug 2019 | The Hill
New Mexico sued the Air Force for PFAS contamination in March, and Lujan Grisham’s letter criticizes EPA for reneging on a promise from Wheeler to help the state “with legal and technical assistance in a confidential manner.” “Providing fact sheets and offering webinars are not meaningful,” she wrote.
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Michigan: PFAS & biosolids
Policy
5 Aug 2019
Information on the first case of PFAS biosolids contamination in Michigan and their Industrial Pretreatment Program's guidance.
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Notes from the Field: Targeted Biomonitoring for GenX and Other Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Following Detection of Drinking Water Contamination - North Carolina, 2018
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26 Jul 2019 | MMWR Morb. Mortal. Wkly. Rep.
Biomonitoring of 837 private well and select owners for the presence of GenX and 17 other common PFAS, due to exposure by manufacturing facilities.
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What consumers can do as regulators weigh ‘compounds’ risk
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20 Jul 2019 | Associated Press
It’s probably impossible to avoid all exposures, says Leonardo Trasande, a children’s environmental health specialist and vice chair for research at New York University’s pediatrics department, and a PFAS expert. But there are “safe and simple steps to limit exposure based on what we know.”
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Angry with PFAS delays, Oscoda residents give the state an earful
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17 Jul 2019 | MLive
People in Oscoda, MI are fed up. One by one, they filed to the microphone Tuesday night and gave a panel of state health and environmental specialists an earful. The U.S. Air Force — the polluter, which contaminated the area by using chemical-based firefighting foam at Wurtsmith Air Force Base — was absent from the meeting.
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Study examines PFAS data from 3 states
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17 Jul 2019 | Coastal Review Online
North Carolina, Colorado and Michigan, three states with PFAS water contaminated are the focus of a three-year study to better understand the extent of contamination, the routes of exposure for the affected communities, and how these man-made chemicals move in the environment.