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PFAS Polluter Agrees to Pay $13M for Dover’s New Water Treatment Plant
News
8 Dec 2021 | Fosters Daily Democrat
New England Metal Recycling Inc., which polluted city aquifers with harmful PFAS contaminants, has agreed to pay for the construction and operation of a new city water treatment facility.
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[EWG News] Decades Later, Plumes of ‘Forever Chemicals’ from Defense Installations Still Contaminate Nearby Wells
News
7 Dec 2021 | EWG
PFAS concentrations measured at DOD installations are among the highest in the country, with some bases having concentrations in the millions of ppt.
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PFAS Standards In Pennsylvania Now Set
Policy
6 Dec 2021
The standards aim to be guidelines by which site remediators can gauge PFAS removal steps in instances of soil pollution.
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PFAS Ban For Food Packaging Proposed
Policy
6 Dec 2021
The bill, while incredibly brief, would accelerate efforts already underway by the food packaging industry to develop feasible substitutes for PFAS in its products.
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EGLE Kicks Off Great Lakes PFAS Summit
News
6 Dec 2021 | Michigan Public Radio Network
The “Great Lakes Virtual PFAS Summit” is a week-long event where policymakers, environmentalists and researchers can learn about how to address the threat posed by PFAS.
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Tumorigenic activity of alternative per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS): Mechanistic in vitro studies
Science
6 Dec 2021 | Sci Total Environ
PFHxS has been associated with breast cancer in epidemiological studies, and this study demonstrated how this shorter-chain PFAS can affect cell proteins and cell proliferation.
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Exposure of male mice to perfluorooctanoic acid induces anxiety-like behaviors by increasing corticotropin-releasing factor in the basolateral amygdala complex
Science
6 Dec 2021 | Chemosphere
PFOA exposure in mice led to a metabolic cascade of effects resulting in anxiety-like behaviors.
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Perfluorooctane sulfonate induces heart toxicity involving cardiac apoptosis and inflammation in rats
Science
6 Dec 2021 | Exp Ther Med
Exposure to PFOS left rats with heart inflammation and other markers of cardiac toxicity.
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Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) exposure of bovine oocytes affects early embryonic development at human-relevant levels in an in vitro model
Science
6 Dec 2021 | Toxicology
Human-relevant levels of PFOS alter early bovine embryo development in vitro.
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In Vivo Transformation of a Novel Polyfluoroether Surfactant
Science
6 Dec 2021 | Environ Toxicol Chem
Rats that received a novel PFAS surfactant orally rather than intravenously had higher breakdown products in their blood suggesting the importance of metabolism in the gut and liver.
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Food Packaging PFAS Ban Introduced in Congress
News
4 Dec 2021 | National Law Review
The lack of a definition in the Act for "intentionally added PFAS" opens the door to future debate of intent.
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Biden Infrastructure Act Provides $10 Billion for PFAS Issues
News
4 Dec 2021 | National Law Review
The longer-term effects of the Act’s steps to address PFAS issues may in fact lead to additional litigation against companies.
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Rockland Contends with PFAS- ‘Forever Chemicals’- Above State Limits at Treatment Plant
News
3 Dec 2021 | The Patriot Ledger
The sample from the end of September had the highest level of PFAS since testing started at 29 parts per trillion.
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Green Beauty Product Testing Finds More Than 60% Have PFAS Indicators
News
3 Dec 2021 | Environmental Health News
Of the 83 lipsticks, mascaras, and other beauty products tested by Mamavation, 54 were found to have organic fluorine, with eight containing organic fluorine levels higher than 100 ppm.
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[Blog] Groups Call on Biden Administration to Commit to Purchasing PFAS-Free Products
News
2 Dec 2021 | Safer Chemicals Healthy Families and Toxic-Free Future
The EPA’s recently released PFAS Strategic Roadmap included some important national commitments but lacked an upstream focus on pollution prevention.