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New York PFAS health study gets boost from feds
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26 Jul 2019 | Times Herald-Record
New York has been awarded federal funding to support a health study on the effects of toxic PFAS contamination by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The money will be used to expand a monitoring program that will assess the extent of PFAS exposure in New York communities.
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‘Markedly higher’ levels of 2 PFAS found in blood of NC residents, CDC reports
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26 Jul 2019
The study conducted by the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services with the CDC found two PFAS (PFHxS and n-PFOS) “markedly higher” in the people drinking contaminated water in N.C. than the national estimates. GenX was not detected in the blood or urine of any of the participants, but nine PFAS were detected in blood.
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Notes from the Field: Targeted Biomonitoring for GenX and Other Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Following Detection of Drinking Water Contamination - North Carolina, 2018
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26 Jul 2019 | MMWR Morb. Mortal. Wkly. Rep.
Biomonitoring of 837 private well and select owners for the presence of GenX and 17 other common PFAS, due to exposure by manufacturing facilities.
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‘I need PFAS polluters to be held accountable’ Congress told at hearing
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25 Jul 2019 | MLive
At a recent U.S. Congressional subcommittee meeting, Sandy Wynn-Stelt, the West Michigan woman with eye-widening number of fluorochemicals in her blood, detailed her sense of loss as she realized that her husband may have died from the high levels in their drinking water due to contamination from an old dump once filled with Scotchguard from Wolverine Worldwide’s factory.
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Corporations behind toxic ‘forever chemicals’ spend big as lawmakers seek to crack down
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25 Jul 2019 | E.A. Crunden
Manufacturers of toxic nonstick chemicals are ramping up lobbying efforts in the face of heightened lawmaker scrutiny of the products.
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Ardmore refinery sues chemical manufacturers for toxic ‘forever chemical’
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25 Jul 2019 | The Frontier
An Oklahoma petroleum refinery has sued several chemical manufacturers and fire suppression equipment companies for damages it expects to incur because of a type of chemical that was used in the fire-extinguishing foam stored and used at the refinery.
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Military starts task force after spreading toxic “forever chemicals”
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24 Jul 2019 | The Hill
Secretary Mark Esper created a task force responsible for devising PFAS cleanup standards, finding an alternative firefighting foam without PFAS, and addressing “Public/Congress perceptions of DoD's efforts.”
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[Recording & Support Documents] The US House Subcommittee on Environment Hearing: The Devil They Knew – PFAS Contamination and the Need for Corporate Accountability
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24 Jul 2019
U.S. House hearing on the widespread industrial contamination of air, drinking water, ground water and food supplies across the United States with PFAS.
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98 claims filed against New Windsor, NY over tainted water
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23 Jul 2019 | Times-Herald Record
Ninety-eight notices of claim have been filed against New Windsor, NY seeking damages in the wake of the disclosure that its water contained PFOS and PFOA.
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Electrodialytic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) removal mechanism for contaminated soil
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23 Jul 2019 | Chemosphere
PFAS contaminated soil was remediated by passing an electric current through the soil.
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Are perfluoroalkyl substances in water and fish from drinking water source the major pathways towards human health risk?
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23 Jul 2019 | Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
Elevated levels of PFAS linked to fish consumption, especially in children aged 2-6 years old.
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Alaska DEC rolls back PFAS chemicals to avoid remediation costs for polluters, violating state law
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23 Jul 2019 | CoastAlaska
Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration directed DEC to change its regulations. It now screens for two PFAS compounds rather than five when determining whether water is safe to drink. By limiting its testing to two compounds, the DEC is no longer screening for PFHxS, one of the drivers for declaring a Yakutat drinking water source contaminated.
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Wisconsin DNR asks sewage treatment plants to test for PFAS
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23 Jul 2019 | Kenosha News
In an effort to understand how and where PFAS find their way into drinking water, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is asking 125 wastewater treatment plants to begin sampling for PFAS.
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Larval amphibians rapidly bioaccumulate poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances
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22 Jul 2019 | Ecotox. & Enviro. Safety.
Toxic frogs lead to bioaccumulation in predator species.
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Harnessing fluoroacetate dehalogenase for defluorination of fluorocarboxylic acids: in silico and in vitro approach
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22 Jul 2019 | Envionment International
The ability of enzymes to degrade PFAS was tested in bacteria in order to design an environmentally friendly remediation technique.