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California governor under pressure over bill to ban cookware made with PFAS
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3 Oct 2025 | The Guardian
Gavin Newsom, the California governor, is facing intense pressure from industry, and even some celebrity chefs, as he weighs whether or not to sign a bill that bans the sale of cookware made with PFAS or “forever chemicals”.
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Illinois bans PFAS in firefighter gear
Policy
29 Sep 2025
Illinois firefighters will soon be protected by gear free of PFAS — toxic “forever chemicals” linked to cancer — under a new law signed by Gov. JB Pritzker.
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Unmasking PFAS
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26 Sep 2025 | The National Law Review
The Aqueous Film-Forming Foam (AFFF) multidistrict litigation is using a new process that gathers data from AFFF sites to link specific PFAS-based firefighting foams and their manufacturers to alleged contamination aiming to streamline liability decisions.
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Short-chain PFAS predominate in large-scale lithium battery industrial parks, Eastern China: Source apportionment and downstream impact implications
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25 Sep 2025 | J. Hazard. Mater.
Lithium battery industrial parks in eastern China release significant amounts of short-chain PFAS into rivers, with urban wastewater, traditional industries, and the battery industry each contributing about one-third of the pollution, leading to ecological risks, in downstream ecosystems.
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Field measurement and modelling of PFAS leachability from a contaminated fire training area–whole of pad response to rainfall
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24 Sep 2025 | Water Research
Concrete and asphalt at old fire training sites where firefighting foams were used continue to release PFAS into rainwater runoff at levels around 1–4 micrograms per liter, and modeling indicates this contamination could persist for centuries without active cleanup or management.
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Republicans try to gut protections against US military’s PFAS pollution
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19 Sep 2025 | The Guardian
If approved as proposed, legislation would delay ban on toxic ‘forever chemical’-laden firefighting foam.
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California legislature votes to phase out “forever chemicals” in cookware and other household items
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15 Sep 2025 | CBS News
The move has pulled in celebrity chefs on one side and environmentalists, including actor Mark Ruffalo, on the other.
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Employees of major chemical maker Daikin underwent PFAS blood tests
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13 Sep 2025 | KYODO News
Major Japanese chemical maker Daikin Industries Ltd. conducted blood tests on employees in the past following possible exposure to potentially harmful PFAS chemicals, a source familiar with the matter said Saturday.
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‘You’re poisoning my child’: How Mamme No PFAS helped expose Italy’s PFAS pollution scandal
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13 Sep 2025 | Euro News
They are Mamme No PFAS (Mums No PFAS), a group of mothers protesting PFAS contamination in Italy. They are among the most influential activists in Europe’s fight against these ‘forever chemicals’.
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Unveiling the chemical safety of clothing articles, textiles and footwear with regard to the presence of carcinogenic, mutagenic, or reprotoxic substances, endocrine disruptors and skin sensitizers under EU regulatory restrictions
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12 Sep 2025 | Contact Dermatitis
Analysis of 111 apparel items focused on fast-fashion and online markets, found to contain chemicals of concern including PFAS, (detected in about one-third of samples), bisphenols, phthalates, PAHs, and isothiazolinones. Nearly a quarter of items exceeded the proposed EU restrictions limits for at least one chemical.
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EPA issues enforcement order for Maine corporation related to release of PFAS at Brunswick Landing
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11 Sep 2025 | WMTV
The U.S. EPA announced Thursday that it has reached an agreement with the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority that addresses last year's accidental release of "forever chemicals" in Brunswick.
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A Maine compost operation heavily contaminated by PFAS is closing
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8 Sep 2025 | Bangor Daily News
Casella Waste Systems is closing its Hawk Ridge Compost Facility in Unity Township after Maine regulators discovered high levels of forever chemicals on the site and indications that the contamination may have spread to the land around it.
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USAF testing PFAS levels from former base operations
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5 Sep 2025 | The Sun
The "plume" near fuel storage areas in New York state has shrunk considerably, with aeration treatment and soil cleaning procedures that began decades ago.
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PEER Petitions MAHA Commission to Remove PFAS from U.S. Food Chain
Policy
29 Aug 2025
On August 13, 2025, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) announced that it petitioned the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission to remove per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from the food chain.
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WA ramps up pressure on Army over PFAS contamination near Yakima
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28 Aug 2025 | The Seattle Times
Years after a group of substances often described as forever chemicals were found in drinking water near Joint Base Lewis-McChord’s Yakima Training Center, families are still waiting for water filtration systems, and state officials are frustrated with the Army’s “pattern of slow or no release of information” about the contamination.