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Farmers losing everything after ‘forever chemicals’ turned up in their food
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2 Jul 2019 | BuzzFeed News
’Forever chemicals’ linked to cancer are turning up in farm produce across the country, leading farms to lay off workers, incinerate cranberry harvests, kill cows, and dump thousands of gallons of dairy milk. Such long-lived "fluorinated" compounds have been measured in the drinking water in over 600 locations in 43 states, near factories or military bases that use them in firefighting foams…
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Michigan proposes strong, yet incomplete PFAS protections
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1 Jul 2019 | NRDC Expert Blog
Michigan is proposing some of the most health-protective standards in the nation for several PFAS—yet could be missing out on the opportunity to protect its citizens in the long-term. Michigan has performed the most comprehensive PFAS monitoring in the nation, and the state has begun taking steps to protect it citizens from the health risk these dangerous ‘forever’ chemicals pose. Among the monitoring results, it was discovered that over 100 of their public water systems are contaminated with PFAS—affecting approximately 1.5 million of its citizens…
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Chemours says DuPont lowballed environmental liabilities
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1 Jul 2019 | Washington Post
Chemours, a spinoff of DuPont’s Performance Chemicals unit, filed a recently unsealed lawsuit against DuPont, claiming that the maximum liability exposure figures that DuPont certified prior to the spinoff have proven to be “systematically and spectacularly wrong.”
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Guam: Senators defy governor’s call to vote quickly on water contamination lawsuit bill
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1 Jul 2019 | Pacific Daily News
Most senators on Monday defied Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero’s call for an immediate vote and request for waiver of the public hearing requirement on a bill that would authorize the hiring of specialized lawyers to help Guam in a potential drinking water contamination lawsuit… The governor seeks Guam's inclusion in multi-state lawsuits against manufacturers of chemicals that she said have been known to contaminate drinking water across the nation...
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Europe: GenX declared a Substance of Very High Concern
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28 Jun 2019
The EU Member State Committee voted to identify HFPO-DA (aka. GenX), as a substance of very high concern due to its probable serious effects on human health and the environment.
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Accumulation, Biotransformation, and Endocrine Disruption Effects of Fluorotelomer Surfactant Mixtures on Zebrafish
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28 Jun 2019 | Chem. Res. Toxicol.
Alternatives to PFOS shown to disrupt the endocrine system and impair offspring development in zebrafish, a human model organism.
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Prenatal exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances, immune-related outcomes, and lung function in children from a Spanish birth cohort study
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28 Jun 2019 | Int J Hyg Environ Health
Exposure to PFOA linked to reduced lung function in young children.
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Senate vote requires military, EPA to deal with harmful 'forever chemicals'
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27 Jun 2019 | The Hill
The Senate passed the 2020 Defense Spending Bill including a bipartisan amendment that would commission the U.S. Geological Survey to track PFAS contamination nationwide and require public utilities to test drinking water for PFAS. The House is expected to vote on this legislation in July.
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Impacts of PFAS chemicals on immune system highlighted
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27 Jun 2019 | NJ Spotlight
“A new compilation of research into how toxic PFAS chemicals affect the human immune system finds suppressed immune function, lower vaccine effectiveness, hypersensitivity and greater risk of autoimmune diseases. Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit that advocates for tighter curbs on the chemicals nationwide, reviewed previously published…
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Michigan: Recommended PFAS health-based drinking water values
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27 Jun 2019
Michigan Science Advisory Workgroup's recommended health-based drinking water values for 7 PFAS. This information will be used to develop regulatory drinking water standards for PFAS by April 2020.
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New Hampshire: Updated PFAS MCLs
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27 Jun 2019
New Hampshire announced updated, lower PFAS MCLs.
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Senate vote requires military, EPA to deal with harmful 'forever chemicals'
Policy
27 Jun 2019
The Senate passed the 2020 Defense Spending Bill including a bipartisan amendment that would commission the U.S. Geological Survey to track PFAS contamination nationwide and require public utilities to test drinking water for PFAS. The House is expected to vote on this legislation in July.
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Michigan eyes toughest limits for some PFAS in drinking water
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25 Jun 2019 | MLive
“LANSING, MI — Michigan could have some of the nation’s toughest drinking water limits for toxic fluorochemicals called PFAS if goals proposed by a state scientific workgroup survive the environmental rulemaking process unchanged and become law. On Thursday, June 27, the Michigan PFAS Action Response Team (MPART) received “health-based values” for seven separate PFAS compounds from an advisory panel tasked with recommending regulatory limits for the chemicals in public water supplies…
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Early pregnancy serum levels of perfluoroalkyl substances and risk of preeclampsia in Swedish women
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24 Jun 2019 | Sci Rep
Exposure to elevated levels of PFOS and PFNA linked to 46% increased risk of preeclampsia, on average.
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Wisconsin grapples with ‘green’ waste plants that spread hazardous PFAS
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23 Jun 2019 | Wisconsin State Journal
Wisconsin pollution regulators have come to realize that sludge from wastewater treatment plants may be spreading hazardous industrial chemicals in ways that could increase health risks. Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District injects 37 million gallons of sludge into soil each year but doesn't test for PFAS.