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Mitigating PFAS contamination in the United States: Assessing the impact of California’s legislation from 2018 to 2022 on drinking water quality
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23 Aug 2025 | JPHP
California’s 2018–2022 PFAS laws helped cut PFOA and PFOS levels in drinking water by more than half, showing that strong state policies can significantly reduce contamination and serve as a model for national action.
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Alarming levels of PFAS in blood of those living near US air force base, study finds
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23 Aug 2025 | The Guardian
Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ were found at a level 10 times higher than people who did not work in contaminated zone.
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Associations between per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and type 2 diabetes: The modifying effects of lifestyle and genetic risk
Science
23 Aug 2025 | J Hazard Mater
Certain PFAS chemicals (like PFOA, PFNA, PFBA, and PFHpA) are linked to a higher risk of type 2 diabetes and these effects are made stronger by lifestyle choices and high genetic risk.
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Carson City Supervisors approve grass-to-turf field conversions while across the country, cities ban its use due to heat, PFAS concerns
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22 Aug 2025 | CarsonNow.org
The decision to swap turf for grass has been controversial in the past due to the heat turf can absorb and put off, but staff also believes it could save around 8 millions of water each year currently used for irrigation.
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Backward and historical PFOA exposure estimation in an adult population highly exposed in the Veneto region
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22 Aug 2025 | Environments
People in Italy’s Veneto region were exposed to far higher levels of PFOA in their blood than later testing showed, with modeled peak concentrations more than double the measured values.
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Europe drafts PFAS restrictions
Policy
21 Aug 2025
ECHA, the arm of the European Commission (EC) responsible for managing the use of chemicals in the EU, has proposed a series of measures to reduce the risks posed by PFAS under the EC’s current legislation.
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PFAS: Rural York County water systems struggle with new standards for 'forever chemicals'
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21 Aug 2025 | York Daily Record
The results, as reported in the authority’s annual water quality report, weren’t good. Three of the six wells that provided water to the system’s 1,750 customers tested well above the proposed federal standard of four parts per trillion.
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Forever chemicals present in Greater Cincinnati water, EPA data shows. See where here
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21 Aug 2025 | Cincinnati Enquirer
Greater Cincinnati's amusement park, Kings Island, and another town were found to have chemicals "well over" the federally dictated levels.
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Millions More Americans Are Being Exposed to Contaminated Water
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21 Aug 2025 | Newsweek
The findings come as part of the EPA's Fifth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule, known as UCMR 5, requiring U.S. water utilities to test drinking water for 29 individual PFAS compounds.
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How to Know If Your Teflon Pans Are Safe to Use
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20 Aug 2025 | CNET
If you're not careful with your nonstick pots and pans, they can do more harm than good.
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Federal court orders Chemours to stop PFAS discharge from West Virginia facility
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20 Aug 2025 | Manufacturing Drive
The Teflon manufacturer’s Washington Works facility violated the Clean Water Act and it must “comply by any means necessary,” U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin said.
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How to destroy harmful 'forever chemicals'
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18 Aug 2025 | BBC
Currently, concentrated PFAS waste is either put in long-term storage which is expensive, or incinerated (often incompletely, leading to toxic emissions), or sent to landfills for hazardous waste.
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Socioeconomic disparities and risk of papillary thyroid cancer associated with environmental exposure to per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in Florida
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18 Aug 2025 | IJERPH
Residential proximity to PFAS-contaminated sites in Florida was linked to higher papillary thyroid cancer incidence among non-Hispanic White and Hispanic populations, with lower-income communities facing disproportionately greater exposure.
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Building collision fatalities for monitoring per-and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) in wild bird populations
Science
18 Aug 2025 | Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett.
Wild birds killed in building collisions in Chicago, were found to carry PFAS levels similar to those in free-living populations, with long-chain PFAS like PFOS and PFCAs most common, making collision sampling a useful tool for monitoring environmental contamination.
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PFAS exposure tied to greater weight regain after adolescent bariatric surgery
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18 Aug 2025 | Pharmacy Times
New research following adolescents for 5 years after they had bariatric surgery found that teens with high blood levels of PFAS before surgery tended to gain more weight back and have larger waist sizes later, compared to those with lower levels of PFAS.