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Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
News
20 May 2024 | ProPublica
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
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PFAS Explained: These Forever Chemicals Are Being Banned from a Variety of Outdoor Products. Now Gear Makers Are Scrambling
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13 May 2024 | Outdoor Life
PFAS are poisoning America’s watersheds and will eventually be banned in several states. That will require the outdoor gear industry to make some major changes.
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Cancer-causing chemicals ban signed into law
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8 May 2024 | Coloradoan
On May 1, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed SB24-081 Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Chemicals (PFAS), which will now prohibit the sale or distribution of certain products containing PFAS in a gradual product phaseout beginning Jan. 1, 2025, and continuing through 2028.
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Rapidly rising levels of TFA ‘forever chemical’ alarm experts
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6 May 2024 | The Guardian
Trifluoroacetic acid found in drinking water and rain is thought to damage fertility and child development.
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Zürich II Statement on Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs): Scientific and Regulatory Needs
Science
22 Apr 2024 | ES&T
A review from PFAS scientists and regulators summarizes key progress in science and policy, ongoing issues to be addressed, and possible ways forward for reducing harm from PFAS.
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[Press Release] Scientists Successfully Head Off Concerning PFAS Bill
Policy
26 Feb 2024
This public health victory shows what happens when scientists contribute their expertise to the policymaking process,” said Marta Venier, an environmental chemist at Indiana University who testified in the hearings.
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Occurrence, bioaccumulation and trophic dynamics of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in two tropical freshwater lakes
Science
14 Feb 2024 | Environ Pollut
PFAS were measured in different fish species in two lakes in Nigeria, identifying the presence of novel PFAS, diSAMPAP and 9CL-PF3ONS, and documenting the role of urbanization on PFAS in the environment for the first time in Africa.
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EPA Adds Seven More PFAS To Toxic Release Inventory List
Policy
29 Jan 2024
Six PFAS were automatically added for Reporting Year 2024 because EPA had finalized a toxicity value during 2023.
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EPA to Release List of Known PFAS That Companies Must Report
Policy
25 Jan 2024
The EPA will post on Friday a list of known PFAS that must be reported to the agency under a regulation requiring companies to submit more than 10 years of production, use, worker exposure, health, and other data.
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Chemical crisis: The unseen toxic threat contaminating wildlife worldwide
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28 Oct 2023 | The Hill
An unseen but growing chemical contamination crisis is threatening wildlife across all seven continents, exacerbating a host of environmental threats they’re already facing.
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Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in PubChem: 7 Million and Growing
Science
23 Oct 2023 | Environ. Sci. Technol.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's 2021 revision of the PFAS definition has led to the inclusion of over 7 million PFAS compounds in PubChem.
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Japan's DIC makes chip materials without PFAS compounds
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31 Jul 2023 | Nikkei Asia
Ink maker to supply alternatives as the ban on 'forever chemicals' looms in Europe.
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New study finds harmful forever chemicals in seemingly ‘green’ products: ‘I would not consider that biodegradable’
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29 Jul 2023 | Yahoo News
But a recent study revealed that these biodegradable alternatives might not be as environmentally friendly as they appear.
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Maine among 22 states to oppose $10.3 billion deal over PFAS in drinking water
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27 Jul 2023 | Portland Press Herald
In a court filing, the attorneys general said it would force nearly all public water providers nationwide to participate unless they withdraw individually – even those that haven't filed suits or tested for PFAS.
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[Podcast] Forever chemicals are in Canadians’ air, water and blood
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24 Jul 2023 | CBS News Front Burner Podcast
Miriam Diamond, a professor at the University of Toronto’s Department of Earth Sciences and School of the Environment talks on CBS News Front Burner podcast about why “forever chemicals are seemingly everywhere, what can be done about them, and why it’s taken so long for the government to act.”