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• Polymer-coated electrode detects PFAS in water

  News

  25 Nov 2020 | C&EN

  Instead of bringing water samples back to the lab for analysis, researchers would like to have a continuous field monitor. ”We knew that electrochemistry potentially would be sensitive and selective enough to detect PFAS, and it’s rather inexpensive,” Dick says.

• Contaminants in NJ soil and water are toxic, documents reveal

  News

  25 Nov 2020 | The Intercept

  Solvay had previously withheld information about the PFAS chemicals on the grounds that it was “confidential business information.”

• Assessing Human Health Risks from Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance (PFAS)-Impacted Vegetable Consumption: A Tiered Modeling Approach.

  Science

  25 Nov 2020 | Environ Sci Technol

  A hazard analysis based on real-world PFAS-contaminated groundwater data found that water-to-crop transfer is an important exposure pathway for communities with PFAS-impacted irrigation water.

• PFAS Thermal Destruction at Wastewater Treatment Facilities: A State of the Science Review

  Science

  24 Nov 2020 | Water

  This review covers available research on the fate of PFAS through incineration systems with a focus on sewage sludge incinerators.

• Perfluoroalkyl acids in rapidly developing coastal areas of China and South Korea: Spatiotemporal variation and source apportionment

  Science

  24 Nov 2020 | Sci Total Environ

  Results of this study provide novel insights into elucidating the spatiotemporal distribution and complicated sources of PFASs over a large area and provide a clear message for all stakeholders, water and coastal managers, and scientists.

• Rapid Characterization of Emerging Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Aqueous Film-Forming Foams Using Ion Mobility Spectrometry-Mass Spectrometry

  Science

  24 Nov 2020 | Environ Sci Technol

  Using analytical chemistry techniques PFAS in AFFF were rapidly characterized.

• [Informational Webinar] EPA's Innovative Ways to Destroy PFAS Challenge

  Events

  23 Nov 2020

  EPA is partnering with the other stakeholders, to co-sponsor a technical challenge regarding the destruction of PFAS. The challenge asks solvers to submit detailed plans for a non-thermal way of destroying PFAS in AFFF, while creating the least amount of potentially harmful byproducts with a $50,000 prize.  

• Newly released data disclose Navy knew of toxic PFAS chemicals in groundwater at Grumman ‘fence line’ in 2016

  News

  21 Nov 2020 | Riverhead Local

  The Navy had not previously disclosed the data on PFAS chemicals in samples taken at the fence line system dating back to December 2017 — and in one instance, September 2016.

• Residential water wells test positive for PFAS pollution

  News

  18 Nov 2020 | Traverse City Record Eagle

  The highest level found in East Bay Township neighborhood in Michigan was 1,300 ppt (PFOS, associated with firefighting foam). The state’s limit for that chemical in drinking water is 16 ppt.

• Exposure to PFAS and small for gestational age new-borns: A birth records study in Veneto Region (Italy)

  Science

  17 Nov 2020 | Environ Res

  Living in a contaminated area by PFAS may play a role in affecting fetal growth and support the hypothesis that PFAS exposure is a risk factor for lower than average gestational growth.

• Recent progress in the detection of emerging contaminants PFASs

  Science

  17 Nov 2020 | J Haz. Mat.

  The challenge and future directions in PFASs sensor development are discussed.

• Biden EPA transition team member helped DuPont dodge responsibility for PFOA

  Policy

  11 Nov 2020

  Michael McCabe, a former EPA official and aide to Joe Biden, led DuPont’s defense of PFOA avoiding regulation that would have cost DuPont dearly.

• The Biden plan to secure environmental justice

  Policy

  10 Nov 2020

  Biden will tackle PFAS pollution by designating PFAS as a hazardous substance, setting enforceable limits for PFAS in the Safe Drinking Water Act, prioritizing substitutes through procurement, and accelerating toxicity studies and research on PFAS.

• Deterministic risk assessment of firefighting water additives to aquatic organisms

  Science

  3 Nov 2020 | Ecotoxicology

  This study investigated the toxicity of six firefighting PFAS additives: Eco-Gel™, Thermo-Gel™, FireAde™, Fire-Brake™, Novacool Foam™, and F-500™ to aquatic biota.

• Toxic synthetic 'forever chemicals' are in our water and on our plates

  News

  2 Nov 2020 | PBS

  It was the start of the 2016 growing season when the farmers were told their water was contaminated.