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WA ramps up pressure on Army over PFAS contamination near Yakima
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28 Aug 2025 | The Seattle Times
Years after a group of substances often described as forever chemicals were found in drinking water near Joint Base Lewis-McChord’s Yakima Training Center, families are still waiting for water filtration systems, and state officials are frustrated with the Army’s “pattern of slow or no release of information” about the contamination.
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Detection and Quantitation of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in North Carolina Sea Foam and the Corresponding Sea Water
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27 Aug 2025 | Environ Sci Technol
Sea foam along the North Carolina coast contains extremely high levels of PFAS, sometimes millions of times above drinking water limits, making it a major reservoir of these harmful chemicals and a potential risk to people and ecosystems.
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The landscape of PFAS contamination in the United States: sources and spatial patterns
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24 Aug 2025 | Environ. Sci. Technol.
PFAS contamination is widespread across the United States, with groundwater detections exceeding health limits at nearly all tested sites, especially around military bases, airports, and firefighting foam users, while industrial and waste facilities account for most likely sources and drive regional hotspots that raise major water safety and environmental justice concerns.
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Carson City Supervisors approve grass-to-turf field conversions while across the country, cities ban its use due to heat, PFAS concerns
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22 Aug 2025 | CarsonNow.org
The decision to swap turf for grass has been controversial in the past due to the heat turf can absorb and put off, but staff also believes it could save around 8 millions of water each year currently used for irrigation.
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How to destroy harmful 'forever chemicals'
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18 Aug 2025 | BBC
Currently, concentrated PFAS waste is either put in long-term storage which is expensive, or incinerated (often incompletely, leading to toxic emissions), or sent to landfills for hazardous waste.
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Are turf fields safe to play on? Critics have PFAS, heat and injury-related concerns
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14 Aug 2025 | WECT
Advocates say the fields help reduce maintenance costs, are more durable and lend themselves to year-round use. Critics, though, say turf fields are dangerous to play on.
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PFAS contamination and its rising toll on food security: A hidden global threat
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11 Aug 2025 | Food Control
Widespread PFAS contamination from industrial, agricultural, and packaging sources has been found to accumulate in global food systems, compromising food safety, disrupting ecosystems, and posing significant long-term health risks.
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In Banning Plastics, California Might Accidentally Ban Youth ATVs and Dirt Bikes
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6 Aug 2025 | Ride Apart
PFAS, or forever chemicals, are both bad for the environment and people. California is attempting to ban them from youth products. But in doing so, it might ban ATVs, dirt bikes, and more.
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Thermal decomposition of organic components in spent lithium-ion batteries: Stagewise evaluation and kinetic analysis
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5 Aug 2025 | Ind. Eng. Chem. Res.
In spent lithium-ion battery recycling, adding oxygen during heat treatment breaks down PVDF more completely around 550 °C with much less energy, leaving far fewer PFAS-like fluorinated residues than inert-gas pyrolysis.
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PFAS and Micron: How will the $100B project deal with ‘forever chemicals’
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4 Aug 2025 | Bay News 9
As Micron Technology moves forward with its $100 billion semiconductor facility in Central New York, community members raised an alarm about per- and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals, but experts contend the technology exists to handle it – for a price.
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PFAS: The ‘forever chemicals’ found at the local car wash
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30 Jul 2025 | WashPIRG
The toxic PFAS in car wash foam, waxes and coatings doesn’t stay at the car wash or even on your car.
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There’s a new acid in our rain — should we be worried?
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23 Jul 2025 | Nature
Scientists and regulators are divided over the threat posed by rising levels of a chemical called TFA.
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Assessment of sealants for the mitigation of PFAS leaching from contaminated concrete
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21 Jul 2025 | J. Hazard. Mater.
Laboratory tests on six readily available concrete sealants showed that an epoxy coating is the most effective barrier to PFAS leaching from contaminated runways and pads; researchers recommend using a combination of surface and penetrating sealants for rapid, on-site pollution control.
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Phthalates, bisphenols and per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances migration from food packaging into food: a systematic review
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17 Jul 2025 | Rev Environ Health
A review of 67 studies shows that hormone-disrupting chemicals such as phthalates, bisphenols and PFAS frequently leach from everyday food packaging, highlighting the need for safer materials.
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Smoldering treatment of PFAS: Investigation of mass balance and volumetric scale up for field implementatio
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8 Jul 2025 | ACS Omega
Engineers have conducted a proof-of-concept study to show that a self-sustaining “smoldering” treatment, enhanced with calcium oxide, can scale from lab columns to 10 m³ soil piles and destroy >99.9 % of PFAS while trapping the released fluorine as benign calcium fluoride, pointing to an energy-efficient, potentially field-ready solution for cleaning contaminated fire-training sites.