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[Video] How a small community fought for justice after finding forever chemicals in drinking water
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13 Nov 2025 | PBS News
William Brangham profiles a new book that tells the story through the eyes of one small community in Upstate New York that decided to fight for some measure of justice.
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Chemical giant blames carpet makers for north Georgia PFAS contamination
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13 Nov 2025 | Atlanta News First
The filing shows the two industries are now pointing fingers at each other in multiple pending lawsuits filed by homeowners and local governments that claim both carpet manufacturers and 3M are to blame for water contamination.
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Trump officials set to approve ‘forever chemical’ as pesticide ingredient
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10 Nov 2025 | The Guardian
The EPA’s move comes just a few months after Maha groups were outraged by the lack of action on pesticides included in the Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again Commission report.
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PFAS-induced immunotoxicity in freshwater fish of inland China: mechanisms and ecological risks
Science
10 Nov 2025 | Comp. Biochem. Physiol. C
PFAS are widespread in China’s freshwater systems, where long-chain and sulfonic types result in suppressed immune responses and higher infection risk. These effects worsen with co-exposure to heavy metals and microplastics.
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Wilmington City Council rejects Chemours expansion amid PFAS fears
Policy
6 Nov 2025
The Wilmington City Council voted unanimously Wednesday against Chemours’ plans to expand production at its Fayetteville Works plant. On the same site, the company polluted the Cape Fear River for decades with PFAS chemicals.
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PFAS detected in Berlin’s water
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4 Nov 2025 | The Berliner
Four out of five water samples in Berlin contain harmful 'forever chemicals' that exceed safety limits and pose serious health risks.
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Turkey Warning Issued for Thousands of People Ahead of Thanksgiving
Policy
3 Nov 2025
Hunters across central Maine are being warned not to consume any wild turkey shot in certain townships, as the game could be contaminated by "forever chemicals," officials from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife warned.
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A dangerous chemical may be in your tap water — But the Trump admin doesn’t want you to know that
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3 Nov 2025 | The Huffington Post
The Trump administration is delaying the publication of a report about a harmful “forever chemical” known as perfluorononanoic acid, or PFNA, discovered in 28 states’ tap water.
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Firms ordered to reduce forever chemicals in drinking water sources for 6 million people
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2 Nov 2025 | BBC
The BBC assessed more than 2,000 individual test results from 2024, obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests, to identify which specific PFAS compounds were being found when levels breached the limits. This showed that both PFOS and PFOA were found in more than 350 of the drinking water tests.
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Farmer sees hope in breakthrough cholesterol drug for PFAS treatment
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30 Oct 2025 | NEWS CENTER Maine
Doctors are studying the use of an older cholesterol drug to reduce PFAS more quickly from the body.
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Associations between PFAS in public water system drinking water and serum among Southern California adults
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30 Oct 2025 | J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol
PFAS contamination in drinking water may be a significant contributor to adult serum PFAS levels, even among communities without high level contamination from industrial manufacturing.
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French Food Safety Agency Proposes PFAS Monitoring Scheme
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27 Oct 2025 | Food Safety Magazine
The French National Agency for Food, Environmental, and Occupational Health and Safety has proposed an expanded monitoring scheme for PFAS based on a first-of-its-kind inventory of PFAS contamination and toxicity, comprising more than 247 “forever chemicals.”
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Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) in seafood from Thailand: Levels, geographic distribution, and risk from dietary exposure
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27 Oct 2025 | Environ Monit Assess
Short-chain PFAS like PFBS and PFPeA were the most common contaminants found in Thai rivers and irrigation canals, showing that industrial discharge, agriculture, and urban runoff are spreading these persistent chemicals even into areas once considered clean.
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Historical blood serum samples from Wilmington, North Carolina: The importance of ultrashort-chain per- and polyfluoroalkyl Substances
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27 Oct 2025 | Environ Sci Technol
This study adds to the body of evidence that ultrashort-chain PFAS occur in high levels in people. Two ultrashort-chain PFAS were detected at high levels in almost every sample.
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How is California Phasing Out the Use of Forever Chemicals?
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24 Oct 2025 | Sustainability Magazine
The move, led by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, sets science-based limits for PFAS in drinking water and complements new legislative measures to phase out their use in consumer products.