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• PFAS and Dissolved Organic Carbon Enrichment in Surface Water Foams on a Northern U.S. Freshwater Lake

  Science

  17 Nov 2020 | Environ Sci Technol

  Estimates indicate that foam ingestion is a potentially important route of exposure for children and adults when they are in surface waters where foam is present.

• Associations between polyfluoroalkyl substance and organophosphate flame retardant exposures and telomere length in a cohort of women firefighters and office workers in San Francisco

  Science

  17 Nov 2020 | medRxiv

  Significant positive associations were found between PFOA and PFOS and telomere length among the whole cohort with stronger associations among firefighters.

• Association between Prenatal Exposure to PFAS and Fetal Sex Hormones: Are the Short-Chain PFAS Safer?

  Science

  16 Nov 2020 | Environ Sci Technol

  Prenatal exposure to PFBS and PFHpA was associated with the characteristics of reproductive toxicity.

• PFAS Exposure Pathways for Humans and Wildlife: A Synthesis of Current Knowledge and Key Gaps in Understanding

  Science

  16 Nov 2020 | Environ Toxicol Chem

  Here we synthesize current understanding of the magnitudes and methods for assessing human and wildlife exposures to PFAS.

• Seeking PFAS cleanup, New Jersey sues Solvay and Arkema

  News

  13 Nov 2020 | C&EN

  New Jersey is suing Solvay Specialty Polymers and Arkema to clean up PFAS at a site along the Delaware River and in drinking water.

• Selective Associations of Recent Low Concentrations of Perfluoroalkyl Substances With Liver Function Biomarkers: NHANES 2011 to 2014 Data on US Adults Aged ≥20 Years

  Science

  11 Nov 2020 | J Occup Environ Med

  Recent lower levels of PFOA, PFHxS, and PFNA are associated with higher serum liver functions but only among obese participants.

• Biden EPA transition team member helped DuPont dodge responsibility for PFOA

  Policy

  11 Nov 2020

  Michael McCabe, a former EPA official and aide to Joe Biden, led DuPont’s defense of PFOA avoiding regulation that would have cost DuPont dearly.

• Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in the Air Particles of Asia: Levels, Seasonality, and Size-Dependent Distribution

  Science

  11 Nov 2020 | Environ Sci Technol

  PFOS distributed on specific sizes exhibited seasonal and regional dependency, while no such patterns were observed for PFOA.

• Biden EPA transition team member helped DuPont dodge responsibility for PFOA

  News

  11 Nov 2020 | The Intercept

  Michael McCabe, a former EPA official and aide to Joe Biden, led DuPont’s defense of PFOA avoiding regulation that would have cost DuPont dearly.

• The Biden plan to secure environmental justice

  Policy

  10 Nov 2020

  Biden will tackle PFAS pollution by designating PFAS as a hazardous substance, setting enforceable limits for PFAS in the Safe Drinking Water Act, prioritizing substitutes through procurement, and accelerating toxicity studies and research on PFAS.

• Association between per and polyfluoroalkyl substances and markers of inflammation and oxidative stress

  Science

  10 Nov 2020 | Environ Res.

  PFAS are associated with markers of chronic inflammation and oxidative stress.

• PFAS exposure and overweight/obesity among children in a nationally representative sample

  Science

  10 Nov 2020 | Chemosphere

  Elevated PFOA concentrations were associated with overweight/obesity among children after multivariable adjustment.

• Occurrence and Distribution of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Tianjin, China: The Contribution of Emerging and Unknown Analogues

  Science

  10 Nov 2020 | Environ Sci Technol .

  Field-derived sediment-water distribution coefficients of emerging PFAS are provided for the first time, confirming that cationic and zwitterionic PFASs tend to be strongly associated with sediments.

• Associations between six common per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and estrogens in neonates of China.

  Science

  10 Nov 2020 | J Hazard Mater

  This study provided epidemiological data on the associations between common PFAS exposures resulting in hormone disruption in newborns.

• Exposure to perfluorobutane sulfonate and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid disrupts the production of angiogenesis factors and stress responses in human placental syncytiotrophoblasts

  Science

  10 Nov 2020 | Reprod Toxicol

  Exposure to PFOS or PFBS impacts several key pathways associated with preeclampsia.