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Are forever chemicals in your drinking water? Check new EPA data here
News
25 Feb 2026 | USA Toda
More than 1,050 water systems reported average PFAS levels above the EPA’s new limits.
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Wisconsin Assembly passes deals on PFAS, SNAP funding
Policy
20 Feb 2026
The Assembly voted 93 to 0 to pass two bills addressing PFAS contamination, one requiring the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to clean up PFAS on behalf of exempt individuals or businesses, and the other creating grants for testing and remediation.
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Farm use of PFAS-laden sludge raises health concerns. But, some ask, where else can it go?
News
17 Feb 2026 | New Hampshire Bulletin
“In New Hampshire, we have not yet had to come to terms with the damage that has been done and is still being done,” Jumper said. “This bill is necessary to start the process of dealing with the problem.”
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Florida’s PFAS crisis is about to hit water bills hard
News
12 Feb 2026 | Florida Today
Florida’s cautious approach — waiting for federal guidance rather than adopting early, aggressive standards — helped the state avoid challenges seen in other regions, where systems became outdated shortly after installation.
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Louisville Found PFAS in Drinking Water. The Trump Administration Wouldn’t Require Any Action.
News
12 Feb 2026 | Louisville Public Media
The GenX levels Louisville found in December 2024 were 15 times the reading from the previous month: 52 parts per trillion versus 3.4 ppt.
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‘Absolutely horrified’: Community left in the dark about PFAS contamination
News
9 Feb 2026 | ABC News
Water testing, conducted in Australia found readings above the 2024 national drinking water guidelines. One water sample exceeded the limit by almost 60 times.
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Sustainable PFAS removal from electronics wastewater through a cost-health trade-off framework
Science
6 Feb 2026 | Environ. Sci. Technol.
Upstream treatment of PFAS in electronics and semiconductor wastewater could substantially reduce projected human toxicity at costs that appear modest relative to industry market value, although trade-offs vary by region and removal stringency as manufacturing growth may drive increasing releases.
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PFAS regulation and enforcement accelerate in Germany
Policy
30 Jan 2026
Germany is transposing EU drinking water rules into national law, introducing binding PFAS limits and tighter monitoring, while EU restrictions on firefighting foams and broader class-based controls advance.
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Timeline of PFAS cleanup near Fairchild quietly pushed back 6 years
News
30 Jan 2026 | KXLY
"Well, it's been so long since 2017 of talking about it investigating, discussing but yet not a drop of PFAS has yet been scooped up out of the ground or at the water," said John Hancock, president of the West Plains Water Coalition and a resident whose home is impacted by the contamination in Washington State.
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What's the latest with Westminster's contaminated well problem?
News
29 Jan 2026 | The Gardner News
On Jan. 17, the Westminster Board of Health lifted the well moratorium placed in August 2022 that prevented any well drilling in the PFAS-contaminated study area.
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Paper company named responsible for PFAS pollution offers bottled water to Stella
News
25 Jan 2026 | Wisconsin Public Radio
“I do commend them. They are doing something now that they’ve been told they have to,” Crump said. “Something is better than nothing, which is what they were doing before. We just need to make sure that something is…what’s going to help our citizens the most.”
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New filtration technology could be gamechanger in removal of PFAS ‘forever chemicals
News
23 Jan 2026 | The Guardian
“We’re going to need as many technologies as we can possibly find to deal with PFAS in drinking water, and if this works to scale on wastewater, then it would be really something to pay attention to,” said Laura Orlando, a PFAS researcher with the Just Zero non-profit and a civil engineer who works on waste-management design.
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NT town of Katherine home of Australia's best tasting tap water, nine years after PFAS detected
News
9 Jan 2026 | ABC News
After years of delays, the plant started running last year – prompting Power and Water to enter Katherine's tap water into the WIOA competition for the first time.
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[Opinion] Chemists must learn from PFAS to avoid similar mistakes
News
6 Jan 2026 | C&EN
Chemists now face a reckoning over how persistence is defined, rewarded, and regulated and how lessons from PFAS are carried forward into future chemical design.
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U.S. military rejects Okinawa access requests over PFAS findings
News
19 Dec 2025 | The Japan Times
The reply says that inspections could be considered only if there were agreed upon environmental standards enabling both sides to properly assess sampling results and clear scientific evidence identifying U.S. facilities as the pollution source.