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Another Firefighter gear class action alleges PFAS exposure as California county sues
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10 Apr 2026 | Top Class Actions
The County of San Mateo claims 3M, DuPont De Nemours and 17 other companies knew for decades about the dangers of PFAS but failed to warn firefighters and other public entities that purchased and used the gear.
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Severe exposure to ‘forever chemicals’ during pregnancy could lead to childhood asthma
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9 Apr 2026 | Inside Climate News
Residents of Ronneby, a city in southern Sweden, were unknowingly exposed to water with high levels of PFAS for more than 30 years, after AFFF runoff from a local military airfield contaminated one of two municipal waterworks.
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Roadkill: An opportunistic strategy to track PFAS in venomous snakes in a South African urban environment
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9 Apr 2026 | Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol.
Screening 30 PFAS in roadkill from three venomous snake species found high burdens dominated by PFOS and included emerging compounds like 6:2 Cl-PFESA, suggesting terrestrial top predators may serve as sentinels of urban PFAS contamination and help address gaps beyond aquatic monitoring.
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Prenatal exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and incidence of asthma and wheeze in childhood: A register-based cohort study in Ronneby, Sweden
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9 Apr 2026 | PLoS Med
PFAS, including PFOS, PFHxS, and PFOA from AFFF-contaminated drinking water, was associated with increased childhood asthma incidence, while no associations were observed at lower exposure levels, suggesting a possible threshold effect.
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Penguin ‘toxicologists’ find PFAS chemicals in remote Patagonia
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8 Apr 2026 | UC Davis
The sensors safely absorbed chemicals from the water, air and surfaces the penguins encountered while the unwitting “toxicologists” foraged to feed their chicks.
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Traditional fermentation amplifies PFAS bioaccessibility: Defining fermented fish products as an unrecognized source of dietary exposure
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8 Apr 2026 | Environ Sci Technol
Traditional fermentation of fish products may substantially increase the bioaccessibility, and thus potential dietary exposure, of PFAS such as PFOS and PFOA by breaking down proteins and fats during fermentation, which frees PFAS that were previously trapped in the food structure.
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Global inventory of fluoropolymer production plants and their associated PFAS environmental contamination
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8 Apr 2026 | Environ Sci Technol
A global assessment of industrial sites manufacturing fluorinated polymers indicates that releases of perfluoroalkyl carboxylic acids, perfluoroalkyl sulfonic acids, and ether-based alternatives are commonly detected in air, water, soil, and biota, often at elevated levels and across broad distances.
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From environment to organs: Individual and combined effects of MPs and PFAS on urinary system health
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7 Apr 2026 | Front Physiol.
A review suggests PFAS may accumulate in the kidneys and disrupt metabolism and hormone balance, potentially contributing to kidney damage, cancer risk, and changes in gene regulation, while co-exposure with microplastics may influence PFAS toxicity by acting as carriers that alter their bioavailability and uptake.
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PFAS cleanup at Joint Base Cape Cod hindered by lack of funding
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6 Apr 2026 | Cape Code Times
Contractors are still cleaning up and monitoring environmental contamination from PFAS and military munitions at Joint Base Cape Cod, but expanding the scope of work is unlikely due to a lack of money, a consultant says.
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Michigan study links PFAS to weaker COVID vaccine response
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5 Apr 2026 | Mlive.com
In the study’s main analysis, participants with higher PFHxS exposure had about 40 percent lower levels of a key COVID-fighting antibody after vaccination than those in the lower exposure group.
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Migration of per‐and polyfluoroalkyl substances in soil under rainfall simulation
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3 Apr 2026 | PLoS Med
Rainfall simulation experiments suggest that PFAS such as PFOS, PFOA, and PFHxS, may migrate primarily through leaching with additional transport via runoff, with wetting-dry cycles potentially redistributing PFAS to surface soils and enhancing mobilization.
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PFAS plan sparks backlash over weak protections
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2 Apr 2026 | Liz McLaughlin
“We’re not holding the polluters accountable,” said Emily Donovan, co-founder of Clean Cape Fear. “The burden should not fall on the communities to clean this up. It should fall on the polluters.”
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Chemical exposome patterns in mothers and children across urbanisation levels in five European birth cohorts
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2 Apr 2026 | J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol
Urban versus non-urban living may shape exposure to multiple chemicals during pregnancy and childhood, with some substances like phenols and phthalates higher in urban areas while PFAS associated with agricultural practices such as PFOA, PFOS, PFNA, PFHxS, and PFUnDA may be higher in non-urban children.
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Erin Brockovich warns PFAS problem spreading beyond Georgia town at meeting
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1 Apr 2026 | The National News Des
“It’s going to be the entire state of Georgia,” Brockovich said. “It’s in the landfills, it’s in the rivers, it’s in the creeks, it’s in the tributaries, it’s in the soil, it’s in the farmland. It’s in the food chain.”
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Per-and poly-fluoroalkyl substances in lung tissues and their association with lung cancer.
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1 Apr 2026 | J. Hazard. Mater.
PFOS, PFOA, PFCAs, and PFSAs, were detected in lung tumor tissues from cancer patients and were associated with cancer biomarkers, suggesting that these chemicals may accumulate in lungs and could be linked to disease processes.