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EPA accused of ‘egregious’ misconduct in PFAS testing of pesticides
News
28 May 2024 | The Guardian
US agency found PFOS and other types of PFAS in pesticides but failed to disclose those results, watchdog group alleges.
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Lawyers to Plastics Makers: Prepare for ‘Astronomical’ PFAS Lawsuits
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28 May 2024 | The New York Times
At an industry presentation about dangerous “forever chemicals,” lawyers predicted a wave of lawsuits that could dwarf asbestos litigation, audio from the event revealed.
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Maternal F-53B exposure during pregnancy and lactation affects bone growth and development in male offspring
Science
27 May 2024 | Ecotoxicol Environ Saf
Maternal exposure to F-53B, a highly persistent PFOS alternative, in mice during pregnancy and lactation impairs bone growth and development in male offspring, potentially leading to osteoporosis-like symptoms, through disruption of liver function and bone metabolism pathways.
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They’re in pans, fruit, dust – and even tap water. But can I eradicate toxic forever chemicals from my home?
News
25 May 2024 | The Guardian
One person’s attempt to reduce PFAS exposure from everyday items.
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Machine learning–enhanced molecular network reveals global exposure to hundreds of unknown PFAS
Science
24 May 2024 | Sci Adv
Using machine learning, an automatic PFAS identification platform accurately identified unknown PFAS chemicals in environmental samples, offering improved performance over current methods and revealing numerous previously undetected PFAS in wastewater and other global samples.
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San Francisco bans PFAS from firefighter gear to combat cancer risk
Policy
24 May 2024
San Francisco has become the first major U.S. city to ban PFAS chemicals from its firefighters' protective gear, aiming to reduce the elevated cancer risk among firefighters.
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Maine Amends Its PFAS Statute, Exempting Certain Product Categories from the Sales Prohibition and Eliminating the General Notification Requirement
Policy
24 May 2024
The legislation also creates new sales prohibitions for products with intentionally added PFAS with varying effective dates, expands the exemption of certain product categories from the prohibitions, and establishes a new reporting program for those product categories that receive a currently unavoidable use determination from MDEP.
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EPA announces $18.9M in funding to address PFAS contamination in New Mexico
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24 May 2024 | New Mexico Political Report
While the funding announced on Thursday will help water utilities, including mutual domestics, communities that rely on well water such as La Cienega and La Cieneguilla will not benefit from this round of funding despite having had wells test positive for PFAS contamination.
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Current understanding on the transformation and fate of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances before, during, and after thermal treatment of biosolids
Science
24 May 2024 | J. Chem. Eng.
Thermal treatment methods like incineration, pyrolysis, and gasification can potentially destroy PFAS in biosolids, but optimizing treatment conditions and understanding the complete process remains challenging.
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Kalamazoo focuses on 2 pump stations to meet new federal PFAS standards
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24 May 2024 | Wood TV
Kalamazoo is asking the state for $51 million to help get rid of PFAS from its water on the city’s east side.
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Hundreds of drinking water systems exceed new PFAS standards. It could grow to thousands.
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24 May 2024 | USA Today
After more than a year of collecting test results for toxic “forever chemicals,” the Environmental Protection Agency says almost 300 of America’s public drinking water systems – including some that serve hundreds of thousands of people – exceeded newly established annual limits.
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Immune cell profiles associated with human exposure to perfluorinated compounds (PFAS) suggest changes in Natural Killer, T helper and T cytotoxic cell subpopulations
Science
23 May 2024 | Environ Res
Exposure to various PFAS chemicals, even at low levels, is associated with changes in immune cell subpopulations, potentially explaining the immunosuppressive effects observed in epidemiological studies.
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Closed West Tisbury landfill called PFAS source
News
23 May 2024 | MV Times
The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection has labeled the closed and capped West Tisbury landfill as a source of PFAS, the latest confirmed contamination on the Island of chemicals that are associated with a variety of health effects.
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BASF settles PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ water contamination lawsuit for $316.5 million
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21 May 2024 | Fast Company
The money provided by the settlement, which must be approved by a federal judge, will help cities, towns and other public water systems remediate contamination of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS.
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A multi-platform approach for the comprehensive analysis of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and fluorine mass balance in commercial ski wax products
Science
21 May 2024 | Analytica Chimica Acta
The fluorine content of ski waxes was tested, finding that while traditional analytical methods identified only a small fraction of fluorine as extractable organic fluorine, the majority remained unidentified, suggesting the presence of other PFAS not detected by standard techniques, which highlights the need for more comprehensive analysis methods in assessing PFAS exposure risks in consumer products.