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Aullwood Switching to Public Water After ‘Forever Chemicals’ Were Detected in Well
News
23 Aug 2021 | Dayton Daily News
Health officials are recommending that all property owners in that area test their wells for PFAS.
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Town of Campbell to Keep Receiving Free Drinking Water Because of PFAS, Two State Agencies Say
News
20 Aug 2021 | News8000
State agencies are providing more than 1,000 homes on French Island bottled water because of groundwater contamination.
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Congress Presses Forward on PFAS Measures
News
20 Aug 2021 | The National Law Review
The PFAS Action Act of 2021 would impose new requirements on PFAS under various existing regulatory frameworks including those governing drinking water, wastewater discharges, air emissions, solid waste management and chemicals with expedited deadlines for action.
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[Blog post] Dirty Water: Toxic “Forever” PFAS Chemicals Are Prevalent in the Drinking Water of Environmental Justice Communities
News
18 Aug 2021 | NRDC
At least 69 percent of state-identified disadvantaged communities have PFAS contamination in their public water systems.
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Virtual Event No Defense Screening
Events
18 Aug 2021
The Great Lakes PFAS Action Network is hosting a virtual, seven-day screening, No Defense, The U.S. Military’s War on Water, by Pulitzer Prize winner Sara Ganim, to raise awareness and prompt action on the PFAS crisis occurring across the Great Lakes region.
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Maine PFAS Products Bill Most Far-Reaching To Date
Policy
18 Aug 2021
Maine passed what was touted as the most aggressive PFAS bill related to products thus far in the country.
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Perfluorinated compounds disrupted osmoregulation in Oryzias melastigma during acclimation to hypoosmotic environment
Science
18 Aug 2021 | Ecotoxicol Environ Saf
PFOS showed a greater impact on fish’s ability to extract oxygen from fresh and saltwater than the shorter chain homolog PFBS.
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Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) disturbs fatty acid metabolism in Caenorhabditis elegans: Evidence from chemical analysis and molecular mechanism exploration
Science
17 Aug 2021 | Chemosphere
PFOS was found to inhibit energy synthesis during fatty acid metabolism in a model species.
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How a Nonprofit is Working with Retail Giants like Whole Foods to Ditch Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Products and Packaging
News
17 Aug 2021 | Insider
The best way to get brands on board is by acting as a partner and sharing their test results before they're made public.
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[Blog] CA PFAS Pollution Widespread in Disadvantaged Communities
News
17 Aug 2021 | NDRC
NRDC’s new analysis of California’s drinking water testing for PFAS reveals widespread PFAS pollution in the state, particularly in communities that are already overburdened by multiple sources of pollution.
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Perfluoroalkyl substances are increased in patients with late-onset ulcerative colitis and induce intestinal barrier defects in murine intestinal tissue.
Science
17 Aug 2021 | Scand J Gastroenterol
PFAS was found to irritate the intestinal tract leading to inflammatory bowel disease later in life.
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Comprehensive multi-omics approaches reveal the hepatotoxic mechanism of perfluorohexanoic acid (PFHxA) in mice
Science
17 Aug 2021 | Sci Total Environ
PFHxA exposure was linked with oxidative stress in the liver by inhibition of purine and glutathione metabolism.
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Investigation of distribution, sources and flux of perfluorinated compounds in major southern Indian rivers and their risk assessment
Science
17 Aug 2021 | Chemosphere
Seasonal fluxes of PFAS concentrations were found throughout India with levels ranging from non-detect to 10,545 pg/l.
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Harnessing electronic health records to study emerging environmental disasters: a proof of concept with perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)
Science
17 Aug 2021 | NPJ Digit Med
Using only electronic health records researchers were able to properly predict the health outcomes of a PFAS contaminated zone.
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Associations of Prenatal Exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances with the Neonatal Birth Size and Hormones in the Growth Hormone/Insulin-Like Growth Factor Axis
Science
17 Aug 2021 | Environ Sci Technol
High levels of PFAS mixtures were associated with lower birth weights.