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Bipartisan Legislation to Protect Firefighters from Occupational Exposure to PFAS through Personal Protective Equipment
Policy
23 Sep 2019
U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Cory Gardner (R-CO) introduced bipartisan legislation to help address negative health outcomes of first responders through exposure to PFAS from firefighting equipment.
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PFAS Experts Symposium: Statements on regulatory policy, chemistry and analytics, toxicology, transport/fate, and remediation for per‐ and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination issues
Science
23 Sep 2019 | Remediation
Sixty leading experts provide a consensus statement regarding issues concerning PFAS.
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Defluorination of Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) and Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS) by Acidimicrobium sp. Strain A6
Science
23 Sep 2019 | ACS Pub.
Bacteria found to defluorinate PFOA and PFOS up to 60% in a lab.
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Poly- and per-fluoroalkyl compounds in sediments of the Laurentian Great Lakes: Loadings, temporal trends, and sources determined by positive matrix factorization
Science
23 Sep 2019 | Environ. Poll.
The total load of 22 PFASs in Great Lakes sediments is estimated to be 245 ± 24 tonnes.
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The association between perfluoroalkyl substances and lipids in cord blood
Science
23 Sep 2019 | J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab.
PFAS exposure during the collapse of the World Trade Center associated to elevated lipid levels, low birth weights, and high cholesterol in over 200 pregnant women.
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Persistent pollutants: focus on perfluorinated compounds and kidney
Science
23 Sep 2019 | Curr Opin Crit Care
PFAS exposure was linked to impaired kidney function.
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Trump threatens to veto first ever Congressional Action on ‘forever chemicals’
News
22 Sep 2019 | Truthout
President Trump has threatened to veto the National Defense Authorization Act if it contains current amendments that would protect soldiers — and surrounding communities — impacted by the U.S. military’s use of PFAS-laden firefighting foam. Congress has until early October to submit an agreed-upon, merged bill to the president.
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New Zealand: Consulting on further restrictions on firefighting foams containing PFAS
Policy
21 Sep 2019
New Zealand currently prohibits firefighting foams containing PFOS and PFOA. The proposed amendments add further restrictions on firefighting foams containing other PFAS. Comments due: Monday, December 2, 2019 at 5 PM New Zealand | Sunday, 1 December, 2019 at 8 PM Pacific.
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3M to halt production of undisclosed chemicals at Decatur plant
News
19 Sep 2019 | to WHNT News 19
3M indicated in a statement to to WHNT News 19: "we have elected to temporarily idle certain manufacturing processes. We will resume these processes as soon as practicable.”
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New California law represents strategic shift in PFAS regulation
News
19 Sep 2019 | Law 360
A.B. 756 provides the State Water Resources Control Board, a powerful state agency with broad regulatory authority over water quality, the power to force all public water systems to monitor their water supplies for PFAS, and to alert consumers if such chemicals exceed specific levels set by the board.
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New science on PFAS chemicals should mobilize our senators
News
19 Sep 2019 | The Fayetteville Observer
A peer-reviewed study, published this month in the prestigious Chemical Engineeri Journal, found short-chain PFAS chemicals, like GenX, are more widely detected, more persistent, and more mobile than long-chain PFAS chemicals they were designed to replace--such as PFOA and PFOS... This is profound news considering PFAS chemical makers, like Chemours, continue to claim GenX and other short-chain PFAS are safer replacements.
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EPA allowed companies to make 40 new PFAS chemicals despite serious risks
News
19 Sep 2019 | The Intercept
Despite their dangers, at least 15 of these 40 PFAS compounds that were the subject of substantial risk reports are not only on the most recent list of compounds in active use but also are produced in very large quantities.
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EPA refuses to promise federal limit on PFOA exposure
News
18 Sep 2019 | Times Union
David Ross, assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Water, could not promise that a [PFAS] maximum contamination level would definitely be set until their evaluation is complete... But a decision on setting a federal standard should be made before the end of the year.
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Microbe chews through PFAS and other tough contaminants
News
18 Sep 2019 | phys.org
The researchers were very encouraged to see these bacteria [Acidimicrobium bacterium A6] substantially degrade the famously recalcitrant class of chemicals but cautioned that more work was needed before reaching a workable treatment.
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DuPont looks to kill $4B chemours liability-offloading suit
News
18 Sep 2019 | Law 360
DuPont is asking a court to end a $4 billion suit by spinoff Chemours over ballooning environmental liabilities.