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U.S. Congress: H.R. 2600, the "Toxic PFAS Control Act"
Policy
8 May 2019
Rep. Dean, Madeleine (D-PA) introduced a bill that would regulate PFAS under the Toxic Substances Control Act.
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U.S. Congress: H.R. 2596, the "Protecting Communities from New PFAS Act"
Policy
8 May 2019
Rep. Kuster, Ann M. (D-NH) introduced a bill that would amend the Toxic Substances Control Act to require manufacturing and processing notices for PFAS containing products.
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U.S. Congress: H.R. 2591, the "PFAS Waste Incineration Ban Act"
Policy
8 May 2019
Rep. Khanna, Ro (D-CA) introduced a bill that would prohibit the incineration of PFAS containing waste.
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U.S. Congress: H.R. 2577, the "PFAS Right-To-Know Act"
Policy
8 May 2019
Rep. Delgado, Antonio (D-NY) introduced a bill that would amend the Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act of 1986 to include PFAS on the Toxics Release Inventory.
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U.S. Congress: H.R. 2570, the "PFAS User Fee Act of 2019"
Policy
8 May 2019
Rep. Rouda, Harley (D-CA) introduced a bill that would ensure that polluters pay ongoing water treatment costs associated with exposure from PFAS pollution.
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U.S. Congress: H.R. 2533, the "Providing Financial Assistance for Safe Drinking Water Act"
Policy
7 May 2019
Chairman Pallone (D-NJ) introduced a bill would require the EPA Administrator to establish a program to award grants to PFAS-affected water systems to pay the capital costs associated with installing treatment technologies that can remove all detectable amounts of PFAS from drinking water.
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U.S. Congress: H.R. 2566, the "Revise Safer Choice labels to include PFAS"
Policy
7 May 2019
Rep. Soto, Darren (D-FL) introduced a bill that would require the Administrator of the EPA to revise the Safer Choice Standard to include a Safer Choice label for cookware that does not include PFAS.
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States, experts say EPA role on PFAS chemicals crucial
News
6 May 2019 | Echo Pilot
Even as states across the country work to address toxic per- and polyfluorinated substances (PFAS) by creating their own drinking water protections, legal experts and regulators say the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plays a crucial role. The dynamic is particularly important where the military is…
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Chemours reveals amount of toxic PFAS substitute it sent to plant in South Jersey
News
6 May 2019 | WITF
The chemical company Chemours shipped thousands of pounds of a toxic PFAS substitute to its Chambers Works site in South Jersey between 2015 and 2018, and generated specific quantities of chemical waste at the plant over a longer period. The company’s newly released report, which it sent to…
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Seasonal Variation of Water Quality in Unregulated Domestic Wells
Science
5 May 2019 | Int J Environ Res Public Health
Private wells in the American Southwest determined to exceed the Public Health Advisory levels for PFOA and PFOS.
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Assessing exposure to legacy and emerging per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances via hair - The first nationwide survey in India
Science
3 May 2019 | Chemosphere
Biomonitoring data obtained from hair analysis have been evidenced to provide insight into retrospective human exposure to PFAS in India.
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Prenatal exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances is associated with lower hand, foot and mouth disease viruses antibody response in infancy: Findings from the Guangzhou Birth Cohort Study
Science
1 May 2019 | Science of the Total Environment.
High levels of PFAS linked to higher susceptibility to Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease in newborn children in Chinese cohort study.
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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in two different populations of northern cardinals
Science
1 May 2019 | Chemosphere.
North American cardinals where used as an indicator species to investigated exposure levels in humans.
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Wisconsin DNR asks that more chemicals be evaluated for safe levels in groundwater
News
1 May 2019 | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Department of Natural Resources is asking a state health agency to study the potential impacts of a group of unregulated contaminants as a prelude to setting safe limits in groundwater. The agency on Wednesday asked the Department of Health Services to review 40 chemical compounds to recommend…
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A busy time for the New Jersey DEP – More PFAS action and NRD lawsuits
News
1 May 2019 | The National Law Review
On April 1, 2019, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) proposed drinking water standards for perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) that are significantly more stringent than the federal health advisory of 70 ppt. DEP proposed a maximum contaminant level (MCL) of…