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Opinion: Lasting health impacts of PFAS will rival our past public-health failures
News
11 Jul 2020 | ecoRI News
PFAS will one day, perhaps soon, join the long list of profitable poisons that were allowed to sicken us and damage the environment long after their dangers were first discovered.
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Whitmer signs bills regulating PFAS foam use at Michigan fire stations
Policy
8 Jul 2020
Fire departments would have 48 hours to tell state regulators about the use of a chemical-based firefighting foam type that’s caused drinking water contamination around Michigan under legislation signed into law
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A Database Framework for Rapid Screening of Structure-Function Relationships in PFAS Chemistry
Science
7 Jul 2020 | ChemRxiv
This paper describes a database framework that enables one to rapidly explore systematics in structure-function relationships associated with new and emerging PFAS chemistries.
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Does PFAS exposure make you more vulnerable to coronavirus? Senators want a study to find out
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1 Jul 2020 | Courier Times
U.S. Sen. Bob Casey was part of a group of 19 senators to write to the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service Alex Azar last week to inquire about whether the potential connection between PFAS exposure and COVID-19 was being “thoroughly examined.
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Michigan lawmakers make another push to crack down on PFAS
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1 Jul 2020 | Michigan Advance
A top priority: Requiring the U.S. EPA to create a national enforceable drinking water standard for certain types of PFAS within two years and list them as hazardous substances under the nation’s Superfund law.
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Panel of scientists recommends stronger guidelines on PFAS
News
30 Jun 2020 | Star Tribune
A panel of scientists has recommended that all forms of PFAS used in waterproofing, nonstick cookware, firefighting foams and other heat- and stain-resistant uses be classified collectively as problematic and restricted in uses.
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[Press Release] Scientists Urge Business & Government to Treat PFAS Chemicals as a Class
Policy
30 Jun 2020
All per- and polyfluorinated substances (PFAS) should be treated as one class and avoided for nonessential uses, according to a peer-reviewed article published today in Environmental Science & Technology Letters.
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Scientific Basis for Managing PFAS as a Chemical Class
Science
29 Jun 2020 | ES&T L
This commentary presents a scientific basis for managing as one chemical class the thousands of chemicals known as PFAS.
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Bill to force chemical companies to pay for medical monitoring hits GOP resistance
News
28 Jun 2020 | Concord Monitor
Some in opposition believe that the legislation is too far-reaching and should have been centered on PFAS cases, not all toxic chemical cases.
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Filling gaps in science exposes gaps in chemical regulation
Policy
24 Jun 2020
The regulation of chemicals should protect public health and the environment from undue risk of harm, should promote the development and use of safer alternatives to more hazardous chemicals, and should provide the public with sufficient information to understand how well chemical risks are being managed.
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PFAS bills sent to Whitmer’s desk
News
24 Jun 2020 | The Alpena News
It would mandate that fire chiefs report incidents in which PFAS-containing firefighting foams are used to Michigan’s pollution emergency alert system. The state environmental department would have to accept the foam concentrate free of charge and properly dispose of it.
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Hundreds of airports nationwide are still using firefighting foam linked to cancer
News
15 Jun 2020 | FOX56
While in 2018, Congress directed the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to stop requiring the use of fluorinated firefighting foam by 2021, but until the FAA comes out with an alternative some airports will continue to use it.
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State Legislature passes legislation prohibiting incineration of AFFF with PFAS
News
11 Jun 2020 | The Record
This New York state level action would solidify the one-year moratorium on incineration unanimously adopted by the Cohoes Common Council on April 28.
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PFAS cleanup backers face unexpected foe: water utilities
News
9 Jun 2020 | Bloomberg Law
After decades of inaction, the federal government has gotten serious about cleaning up PFAS, a class of compounds known as “forever chemicals” that have been linked to health problems and inhabit the bloodstream of nearly every American
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Foam Transition: Is it as simple as "foam out/foam in"?
News
5 Jun 2020 | The Catalyst
As an increasing number of drinking water supplies are discovered to be impacted with PFASs above levels deemed to be safe, numerous impacted communities are instigating litigation against end users and manufacturers of aqueous film forming foams and fluoroprotein foams.