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American Chemistry Council Uses Disinformation to Target PFAS Safeguards
News
8 Aug 2022 | The Equation
In its statement about the petition, the ACC claimed to support the development of drinking water standards for the PFAS chemicals PFOA PFOS, PFBS, and GenX. But it speciously charged that EPA was failing to ensure “the scientific integrity of its process.”
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Shaheen, Collins & Bipartisan Group of Senators Call on EPA to Ensure Funding from Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Helps Address PFAS Contamination in Private Wells
Policy
5 Aug 2022
U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Susan Collins led a bipartisan group of Senators calling on the EPA to ensure funding allocated in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to combat PFAS contamination in small and underserved communities is available to address contamination in residential wells.
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‘They all knew’: textile company misled regulators about use of toxic PFAS, documents show
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5 Aug 2022 | The Guardian
A French industrial fabric producer that poisoned drinking water supplies with PFAS “forever chemicals” across 65 sq miles of southern New Hampshire misled regulators about the amount of toxic substance it used.
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Coupling a pathway-oriented approach with tailor-made monitoring as key to well-performing regionalized modelling of PFAS emissions and river concentrations
Science
4 Aug 2022 | Sci Total Environ
A model was developed to assess PFAS emission pathways to rivers, and revealed the dominant PFOS contamination source was municipal wastewater treatment plants.
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Pollution: 'Forever chemicals' in rainwater exceed safe levels
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2 Aug 2022 | BBC
New research shows that rainwater in most locations on Earth contains levels of chemicals that "greatly exceed" safety levels.
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Outside the Safe Operating Space of a New Planetary Boundary for Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)
Science
2 Aug 2022 | ES&T
PFAS have been detected at unsafe levels in rain globally, leading to the conclusions that the spread of PFOS, PFOA, PFHxS, and PFNA in the atmosphere has exceeded levels of concern for chemical pollution and that PFAS uses and emissions should be rapidly restricted.
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Rhode Island PFAS Regulations Become Law
Policy
1 Aug 2022
On June 27, 2022, Rhode Island passed two new laws into effect that regulate six types of PFAS in food packaging, drinking water, ground water, surface waters, and landfills.
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Leveraging Systematic Reviews to Explore Disease Burden and Costs of Per and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance
Science
1 Aug 2022 | Exposure and Health
This study identified at least $5.5 billion in annual disease burden and social costs due to long-chain PFAS exposure, demonstrating that regulatory actions to limit PFAS use and remediate contaminated water may produce substantial economic benefits.
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Doctors should test levels of PFAS in people at high risk, report says
Policy
28 Jul 2022
On Thursday, the prestigious National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine strode into the fray with a 300-plus-page report providing detailed advice for clinicians on how to test, diagnose and treat the millions of Americans who may have been exposed to PFAS.
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South Adams County water district is buying Denver’s water to dilute “forever chemicals”
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27 Jul 2022 | The Colorado Sun
The district, serving Commerce City and surrounding areas, will need a $130 million plant to meet the EPA’s radically lower guidelines for what’s healthy in drinking water.
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Adsorption of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to containers
Science
21 Jul 2022 | J. Hazard. Mater.
Containers used to hold PFAS mixtures adsorbed the chemicals at different rates based on PFAS chemistry, container hydrophobicity, temperature, and container manufacturer, with the general trend of PFAS adsorption as polypropylene > HDPE > PET > glass > polystyrene.
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Across the US, towns warn of toxic PFAS chemicals in drinking water. Here's what to know
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16 Jul 2022 | USA Today
In June the EPA released health advisories for chemicals PFOS and PFOA, which have been linked to cancer and other ailments, leaving many Americans to wonder if they're in danger.
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US legislation would limit PFAS in industrial wastewater
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15 Jul 2022 | C&EN
The measure would also increase the number of chemicals for which manufactures must supply production, use, and other data to the EPA.
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More than 8 million Illinoisans get drinking water from a utility where forever chemicals have been detected, Tribune investigation finds
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12 Jul 2022 | Chicago Tribune
Something as simple as drinking tap water is exposing millions of Illinoisans to toxic chemicals that build up in human blood, cause cancer and other diseases and take years to leave the body.
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Global distributions, source-type dependencies, and concentration ranges of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances in groundwater
Science
11 Jul 2022 | Sci Total Environ
This meta-analysis found that PFAS are detected in all media in all regions tested, which is a reflection of the large scale-use of PFAS, their persistence, and long-range transport.