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Massive Quantities of PFAS Waste Go Unreported to EPA
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5 Aug 2022 | The Intercept
US Ecology failed to report more than 11 million pounds of PFAS-contaminated waste at its facility in Beatty, Nevada.
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Coupling a pathway-oriented approach with tailor-made monitoring as key to well-performing regionalized modelling of PFAS emissions and river concentrations
Science
4 Aug 2022 | Sci Total Environ
A model was developed to assess PFAS emission pathways to rivers, and revealed the dominant PFOS contamination source was municipal wastewater treatment plants.
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South Adams County water district is buying Denver’s water to dilute “forever chemicals”
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27 Jul 2022 | The Colorado Sun
The district, serving Commerce City and surrounding areas, will need a $130 million plant to meet the EPA’s radically lower guidelines for what’s healthy in drinking water.
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Occurrence and Fate of Ultrashort-Chain and Other Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Wastewater Treatment Plants
Science
19 Jul 2022 | ACS ES&T Water
The transformation of precursors into shorter chain PFAAs by biological treatment and the partitioning of longer chain PFAS into sludge streams are key factors determining the fate of PFAS in wastewater treatment plants.
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New PFAS Warnings Put Utility Reputations at Risk, Not Liability
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17 Jun 2022 | Bloomberg Law
Water utilities are likely to face public relations difficulties following the EPA’s announcement of PFAS-related health advisories this week, water attorneys say, even if legal challenges are less of a concern.
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Seasonal Trends of Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in River Water Affected by Fire Training Sites and Wastewater Treatment Plants
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17 Jun 2022 | SSRN
PFAS concentrations were significantly higher at sites impacted by wastewater treatment plants and airports, with seasonal trends suggesting that the mobilization of PFAS depends on many factors like hydrological events and soil permeability.
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Federal PFAS Report Card
Policy
13 Jun 2022
EWG has researched actions the federal government is committed to taking, or for which it faces congressionally mandated deadlines, to tackle the “forever chemicals” known as PFAS.
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Maine bans use of sewage sludge on farms to reduce risk of PFAS poisoning
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13 May 2022 | The Guardian
Maine last month became the first state to ban the practice of spreading PFAS-contaminated sewage sludge as fertilizer.
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In National First, Maine’s Legislature Votes To Ban Spreading Of Pfas Laden Sludge And Compost Derived From Sludge
Policy
15 Apr 2022
The legislature voted overwhelmingly today to end the use of industrial and municipal sewage sludge as fertilizer.
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Advisory warns of PFAS in beef from Michigan cattle farm
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28 Jan 2022 | MLive
Beef from a southeast Michigan cattle farm contains unsafe levels of toxic PFAS chemicals traced to the application of wastewater biosolids as fertilizer on fields used to grow feed crops.
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Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ found in British otters
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25 Jan 2022 | Phys.org
The study found higher concentrations of PFAS in otters close to wastewater treatment works, suggesting domestic and industrial wastewater was an important source.
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PFAS Update: A Retrospective on Federal PFAS Regulation in 2021
Policy
17 Jan 2022
As anticipated, 2021 was an eventful year for the regulation of PFAS at the federal level. BCLP has highlighted the key developments in this document.
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Per-and Polyfluorinated Alkyl Substances (PFAS) Cycling within Michigan: Contaminated Sites, Landfills and Wastewater Treatment Plants
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4 Jan 2022 | Water Research
Analysis of PFAS in Michigan waste found that landfill leachate is a primary source of PFAS to WWTPs, and treatment can increase PFAS concentrations up to 19x, yet long-chain PFAS like PFOA concentrate in biosolids.
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Analysis of the additional cost of addressing per-and polyfluoroalkyl substance contamination from landfill leachate by reverse osmosis membranes in Thailand
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4 Jan 2022 | J. Water Process. Eng.
The net present cost to remove PFAS from landfill liquid waste using reverse osmosis was estimated to be between $392-578 million USD for a network of 111 landfills.
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Investigation of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in soils and sewage sludges by fluorine K-edge XANES spectroscopy and combustion ion chromatography
Science
13 Dec 2021 | Environ Sci Pollut Res Int
Sewage sludge was found to be the second most important contributor of PFAS in agriculture behind soils.