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Chairman Palmer delivers opening statement at Environment Subcommittee Hearing on the current statutory and regulatory landscape of PFAS
News
22 Dec 2025
“In other words, a responsible party could be responsible for the entire cost to cleanup a contaminated site even if its contribution to the pollution was minimal.”
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Latest FDA total diet study testing finds PFAS in 7 percent of samples
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22 Dec 2025 | Food Safety Magazine
Since 2019, FDA has tested 1,352 food samples for PFAS under the TDS, 95 percent (1,290) of which had no detectable levels of PFAS. The agency tests for as many as 30 types of PFAS.
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EU study recommends excluding refrigerants from PFAS restrictions
Policy
20 Dec 2025
“Overall, substitution is not currently feasible given economic, technical, and safety constraints,” the report states. It recommends excluding F-gases completely from the scope of a universal PFAS restriction and instead focus all regulatory control of all F-gases into the existing F-gas regulation.
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Marpe v. Tonoga, Inc.: limiting Frye hearings and clarifying expert causation standards in New York PFOA toxic-tort litigation
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20 Dec 2025 | Casemine
This is a significant procedural and evidentiary ruling in New York toxic-tort law in the burgeoning litigation over PFOA contamination in Hoosick Falls and surrounding areas. The court formally recognized that the methodologies used by key PFOA experts are not “novel” and have already been accepted in other courts.
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Gulls foraging in highly urbanized areas experience disruption in hormones and energetic metabolism
Science
20 Dec 2025 | Environ Int
Urban-breeding ring-billed seagulls exposed to PFAS and halogenated flame retardants show sex-specific associations with thyroid hormones, corticosterone, and lipid metabolism markers, suggesting these chemicals may disrupt hormone regulation and energy metabolism.
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Shaw Industries invents testing methodology to detect PFAS
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19 Dec 2025 | Floor Covering Weekly
“What we discovered is that drinking water testing wasn’t accurate for soaps, oils, resins and other solid materials—really anything other than drinking water. An adequate testing methodology didn’t exist, so we invented one.”
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How global seafood trade is moving ‘forever chemicals’ from contaminated waters to dinner plates
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19 Dec 2025 | The Independent
Fish from parts of Asia and Oceania, including Saudi Arabia, Thailand, and Australia’s eastern coast, showed the highest PFAS concentrations relative to the global average, while fish from Africa and North America had the lowest.
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U.S. military rejects Okinawa access requests over PFAS findings
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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.
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Ahead of 2026, Congress hears diverging calls for PFAS regulation
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19 Dec 2025 | Waste Dive
Witnesses pressed for lawmakers to act on PFAS-related legislation in 2026 to protect “passive receivers” from liability, but environmental groups say stricter PFAS enforcement is needed instead.
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Reevaluating PFAS exposure risks from marine fish
Science
18 Dec 2025 | Science
A global modeling analysis finds that legacy PFAS exposure from marine fish may now be low for most countries due to production phaseouts, yet remains higher in places with very high seafood intake such as Greenland and Denmark, offering important insight for refining fish consumption guidance and noting where potential risk persists.
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Mark Ruffalo-produced documentary chronicles 8-year PFAS fight
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17 Dec 2025 | Port City Daily
Documentary “GenX: The Saga of Forever Chemicals,” directed by Wilmingtonian Elijah Yetter-Bowman and produced by well-known actor and environmental activist Mark Ruffalo, takes a comprehensive look at the contamination that has plagued the Cape Fear region for decades.
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PFAS are being phased out of firefighter gear. But other chemical concerns arise
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16 Dec 2025 | Duke University
However, all gear tested contained brominated flame retardants (BFRs), with the highest levels in the newer gear that had not been treated with PFAS. The most prevalent BFR, decabromodiphenyl ethane, has been linked to thyroid problems.
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Formation of perfluorocarboxylic acids (PFCAs) from the incomplete thermal decomposition of perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA
Science
16 Dec 2025 | ACS ES&T Air
PFOS and PFOA thermal treatment may consistently produce multiple perfluorocarboxylic acids and volatile fluorinated byproducts at suboptimal temperatures despite near-complete parent destruction, highlighting potential emissions concerns and uncertainties about the specific formation pathways.
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Determination of analytical interferences for 4:2 fluorotelomer sulfonic acid in multiple agricultural matrices
Science
16 Dec 2025 | J Agric Food Chem
Naturally occurring oxidized fatty acids in crops were found to generate the same mass-spectrometric signals as 4:2 FTS, which could lead to potentially inaccurate PFAS measurements in agricultural products and may warrant careful method evaluation before results are reported.
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Call for Input - Forever Chemicals (PFAS) & Human Rights
Policy
15 Dec 2025
The Special Rapporteur invites all stakeholders interested in issues relating to toxics, PFAS, and human rights to provide input for the preparation of his thematic report.