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Michigan claims PFAS makers hid firefighting foam danger in new lawsuits
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21 Aug 2020 | MLive.com
Michigan Attorney General has filed dual lawsuits in state and federal court against multiple companies that manufacturer, sell or distribute a type of chemical-based firefighting foam that has led to widespread environmental contamination.
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Effect of PFAS on children’s immune system studied
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17 Aug 2020 | Foster's Daily Democrat
Testing For Pease is the community partner of the Silent Spring Institute for a children’s health study looking at how PFAS impacts immune function in kids. They hope to get 60 children from the Pease community and 60 from Cape Cod for their study.
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Assessment of PFAS fate, transport, and treatment inhibition associated with a simulated AFFF release within a WASTEWATER treatment plant
Science
13 Aug 2020 | Chemosphere
Fluorotelomer precursors degraded to 6:2 FTS, identified intermediates, and terminal PFAS in a model wastewater system after accidental release.
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With ‘trepidation,’ Michigan settles Wurtsmith PFAS cleanup dispute
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26 Jul 2020 | MLive
A major bone of contention has been around the Air Force’s reluctance to comply with a low, 12 ppt state cleanup threshold for PFOS at the point where contaminated groundwater vents to surface water bodies.
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House Democrats add some 'forever chemicals' provisions to defense bill after spiking major amendment
Policy
21 Jul 2020
House Democrats added several amendments aiming to regulate a class of cancer-linked chemicals called PFAS to a defense spending bill Monday.
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PFAS Task Force secures $200M to clean up chemicals at former military bases
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14 Jul 2020 | UpNorthLive
This funding will help to clean up PFAS contamination in communities such as former Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Oscoda, MI.
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Why limiting PFAS in drinking water is a challenge in the US
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13 Jul 2020 | C&EN
An article in the local newspaper caught Andrea Amico’s eye in May 2014. It reported that one of the three drinking-water wells at a sprawling business and industrial park nearby was shut down because of high levels of chemical contamination.
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Serum Half-Lives for Short- and Long-Chain Perfluoroalkyl Acids after Ceasing Exposure from Drinking Water Contaminated by Firefighting Foam
Science
13 Jul 2020 | Environ. Health Perspect.
Branched PFOS isomers had shorter half-lives than linear PFOS isomers in contaminated human blood.
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Whitmer signs bills regulating PFAS foam use at Michigan fire stations
Policy
8 Jul 2020
Fire departments would have 48 hours to tell state regulators about the use of a chemical-based firefighting foam type that’s caused drinking water contamination around Michigan under legislation signed into law
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Michigan lawmakers make another push to crack down on PFAS
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1 Jul 2020 | Michigan Advance
A top priority: Requiring the U.S. EPA to create a national enforceable drinking water standard for certain types of PFAS within two years and list them as hazardous substances under the nation’s Superfund law.
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Will Congress finally address toxic 'forever chemicals?'
Policy
30 Jun 2020
The haunting folk song refrain, “When will we ever learn?” could apply well to the reckless manufacture of a class of harmful chemicals called PFAS.
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Environmental Assessment of Various End-Of-Life Pathways for Treating Per- And Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Spent Fire-Extinguishing Waters
Science
25 Jun 2020 | Environ Toxicol Chem
This study investigates the environmental impacts emanating from the proper treatment of spent fire-extinguishing water with three end-of-life treatment scenarios.
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Another Pathway for Firefighter Exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances: Firefighter Textiles
Science
23 Jun 2020 | ES&TL
Textiles used as firefighter turnout gear were found to have high levels of total fluorine, and individual PFAS were identified and measured on new and used firefighting turnout gear.
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DOD must do more to address PFAS pollution
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19 Jun 2020 | Bloomberg Law
Military service members and their families are especially at risk from forever chemicals because of the DOD’s 50-year use of fire-fighting foam made with PFAS.
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Michigan collects 30k gallons of toxic PFAS firefighting foam
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17 Jun 2020 | MLive
Foam is solidified into a cement-like state before disposal. It was originally headed for U.S. Ecology’s hazardous waste landfill in Belleville, but it has been re-routed to Idaho because the region receives less rainfall and landfills there do not generate as much leachate.