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A dangerous chemical may be in your tap water — But the Trump admin doesn’t want you to know that
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3 Nov 2025 | The Huffington Post
The Trump administration is delaying the publication of a report about a harmful “forever chemical” known as perfluorononanoic acid, or PFNA, discovered in 28 states’ tap water.
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Firms ordered to reduce forever chemicals in drinking water sources for 6 million people
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2 Nov 2025 | BBC
The BBC assessed more than 2,000 individual test results from 2024, obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests, to identify which specific PFAS compounds were being found when levels breached the limits. This showed that both PFOS and PFOA were found in more than 350 of the drinking water tests.
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Farmer sees hope in breakthrough cholesterol drug for PFAS treatment
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30 Oct 2025 | NEWS CENTER Maine
Doctors are studying the use of an older cholesterol drug to reduce PFAS more quickly from the body.
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French Food Safety Agency Proposes PFAS Monitoring Scheme
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27 Oct 2025 | Food Safety Magazine
The French National Agency for Food, Environmental, and Occupational Health and Safety has proposed an expanded monitoring scheme for PFAS based on a first-of-its-kind inventory of PFAS contamination and toxicity, comprising more than 247 “forever chemicals.”
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Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) in seafood from Thailand: Levels, geographic distribution, and risk from dietary exposure
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27 Oct 2025 | Environ Monit Assess
Short-chain PFAS like PFBS and PFPeA were the most common contaminants found in Thai rivers and irrigation canals, showing that industrial discharge, agriculture, and urban runoff are spreading these persistent chemicals even into areas once considered clean.
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PFAS 'Do Not Eat' advisory expands for hunting harvests in central Maine
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22 Oct 2025 | NEWS CENTER Maine
The advisory warns people not to consume deer and wild turkey harvested in several towns.
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Challenging assumptions: Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances detected in deep groundwater across southeastern Australia
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22 Oct 2025 | ACS ES&T Water
PFAS compounds were detected in deep groundwater across southeastern Australia, including aquifers over 100 meters deep, revealing that even supposedly protected water sources are vulnerable to contamination through surface infiltration, bore leakage, and long-range subsurface transport.
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Bioaccumulation, bioamplification, and elimination behavior of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances during insect metamorphosis: Different strategies for silkworms and locusts
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22 Oct 2025 | J Hazard Mater
Silkworms and locusts respond to PFAS exposure in very different ways during metamorphosis: silkworms absorb more PFAS but eliminate up to 39% through molting and metamorphic changes, while locusts absorb less and mainly excrete PFAS through feces, revealing species-specific strategies for coping with environmental pollution and its effects on development.
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Profiles of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in firefighter turnout gear and their impact on exposure assessment
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20 Oct 2025 | Environ Sci Process Impacts
Firefighter turnout gear contains varying levels of PFAS chemicals that accumulate more in older gear and the inner moisture barrier, increasing with wear, heat, and abrasion, which raises firefighters’ potential exposure risks.
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Regulators overlooking toxic PFAS found around Lancashire chemicals plant
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19 Oct 2025 | The Guardian
Environment Agency not testing for ‘forever chemical’ made by factory despite evidence of emissions.
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PFAS in stormwater control measures: Removal, distribution, and long-term fate
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18 Oct 2025 | Water Research
Stormwater systems such as ponds and filters are not designed to remove PFAS, so most PFAS pass through the system, build up in water and sediment over time, and can transform from precursors into more toxic terminal PFAS, making stormwater a growing and often hidden source of PFAS pollution in the environment.
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Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in urban stormwater runoff: Insights from a roadside rain garden
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16 Oct 2025 | Water
A New Jersey roadside rain garden removed less than 1% of the 1,400–1,600 ng/L of PFAS (mainly PFBS and PFHxA) found in stormwater, showing that current stormwater systems are ineffective in removing PFAS and need advanced treatment and stronger policies.
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[Press Release] Ranking Member Pingree: Trump’s EPA is Failing to Protect Americans from ‘Forever Chemical’ Contamination
Policy
16 Oct 2025
Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Interior and Environment Subcommittee, is calling for transparency and immediate action from the EPA after it was reported the Agency is withholding a long-delayed PFAS risk assessment.
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Birds Near US Military Bases Have Higher Levels of PFAS, Study Finds
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16 Oct 2025 | Newsweek
While the findings are "not surprising," as many PFAS chemicals can "move from the environment into the bodies of living organisms," a process called bioaccumulation, the way in which these chemicals are affecting environmental health is "concerning," Jamie DeWitt, director of the Environmental Health Sciences Center at Oregon State University, who was not involved in the study, told Newsweek.
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Assessment of trifluoroacetic acid in tap water from Besançon (France) and bottled water from France, Italy, and Romania
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14 Oct 2025 | Discover Water
TFA, an ultra-short chain PFAS, was found in 100% of tap water samples from Besançon (540–3,800 ng/L, average 1,164 ng/L) and in most bottled waters at lower levels, showing that tap water is a major source of exposure and that this persistent, unregulated chemical needs monitoring and inclusion in drinking water policies.