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PFAS chemicals showing up in public water supplies in Maine, according to CDC
News
30 Oct 2019 | News Center Maine
The samples were taken mostly at schools, water treatment plants and mobile home parks. More than a dozen local water districts declined to let their water be tested.
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Spatial and temporal variability of perfluoroalkyl substances in the Laurentian Great Lakes
Science
30 Oct 2019 | Environ Sci Process Impacts
Long-chain PFAS found to bioaccumulate in soil and biota than compared to the water column.
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Lowe’s bans toxic PFAS chemicals in residential carpets and rugs it sells
News
30 Oct 2019 | Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families
“All indoor residential carpet and rugs purchased by Lowe’s will be free of PFAS chemicals by January 2020.”
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Closing the gap – inclusion of ultrashort-chain perfluoroalkyl carboxylic acids in the total oxidizable precursor (TOP) assay protocol
Science
30 Oct 2019 | Environ. Sci. Process & Impacts
An improved protocol for the total oxidizable precursor assay was developed for precursors of PFAS.
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Enhanced adsorption of perfluoro alkyl substances for in situ remediation
Science
30 Oct 2019 | Envir. Sci.: Water Research & Tech.
Adding commercially available drinking water coagulants to impacted waters can aid in PFAS remediation.
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Mark Ruffalo, Todd Haynes talk ‘Dark Waters’: ‘Our environmental future is at stake’
News
29 Oct 2019 | Variety
“It is the truth,” Bilott said, assessing how accurate he feels the film is. “They did an amazing job condensing [20 years] into two hours. I was a little skeptical at first…about whether I should do something like this, but it was clear that [Mark] was doing it for the right reason: to bring the story out, to do it accurately and [he] wanted to show what really happened.”
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Up to 40,000 to sue Australian Government over PFAS contamination
News
29 Oct 2019 | news.com.au
The largest class action ever launched in Australia will be filed against the Federal Government by Christmas. The lawyers will argue that residents living in PFAS contaminated areas have seen their property prices fall, in some cases by up to 50 per cent. They believe the Federal Government should provide enough compensation to allow residents to leave these unsafe communities.
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[Public comment] California DTSC: PFAS and their alternatives in food packaging products
Policy
26 Oct 2019
California's DTSC is seeking input on specific questions pertaining to PFAS and their alternatives in food packaging products. Deadline: Tuesday, January 14, 2020.
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ITRC and Washington Ecology PFAS Training: Managing PFAS Contamination at Your Sites
Events
24 Oct 2019
Washington State Department of Ecology is pleased to partner with the Interstate Technology and Regulatory Council (ITRC) on the joint upcoming PFAS training event.
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Chemours calls for focused PFAS research, controls
News
24 Oct 2019 | Bloomberg Environment
Chemours, facing hundreds of millions in liability, believes that the regulatory focus should be on the non-polymer category of PFAS. Efforts also should include a look at side-chain fluorinated polymers because “these compounds do have the potential to degrade under certain conditions to form non-polymer PFAS." Chemours has also committed to making its authentic reference standards publicly available and called upon the rest of the fluoropolymer industry to do the same.
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Top U.S. toxicologist was barred from saying PFAS cause disease in humans. She’s saying it now
News
24 Oct 2019 | The Intercept
“I was banned from doing it,” said Birnbaum. “I had to use ‘association’ all the time. If I was talking about human data or impacts on people, I had to always say there was an association with a laundry list of effects.”
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[Proposal solicitation] SERDP and ESTCP grants for PFAS cleanup research
Policy
24 Oct 2019
The U.S. Department of Defense's environmental research arm is soliciting proposals for research into thermal destruction and in situ sorption of PFAS.
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More than 2 dozen groups urge Wisconsin lawmakers to act on PFAS contamination
News
24 Oct 2019 | Wisconsin State Journal
The coalition is pushing for adoption of a bill known as the CLEAR Act, which would require the DNR to establish and enforce standards for at least six PFAS. Additionally, the CLEAR Act, would allow the DNR to require anyone who possesses PFAS to prove they have the financial means to clean up any potential contamination. Lawmakers are also considering a Republican-sponsored bill that would limit where firefighters and others could test or train with foam containing PFAS.
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PFAS exposure may increase risk of breast cancer
News
24 Oct 2019 | EWG News
To reduce the risk of breast cancer and other health impacts from PFAS, Congress should include in the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2020 provisions that would quickly phase out the use of PFAS in military firefighting foam, reduce industrial discharges of PFAS, require reporting and monitoring for PFAS in ground and surface water, and jump-start the cleanup process under Superfund.
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Shapiro: ‘Legal action’ coming for companies tied to PFAS drinking water contamination
News
23 Oct 2019 | The Intelligencer
Attorney General Josh Shapiro says his office will file legal action in the coming months against companies that made firefighting foams. Chemicals found in the foams have contaminated Bucks and Montgomery County communities.