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State updates fish advisories amid PFAS concerns in Southern Colorado waters
Policy
12 Jun 2025
New signs and state guidance urge anglers to check lake-specific advisories as “forever chemicals” raise long-term health risks.
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Brown rice, eggs, and more: Scientists warn popular foods could be contaminated with PFAS
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10 Jun 2025 | SciTech Daily
Although levels of older “forever” chemicals have declined in many foods over the past 20 years, a new study shows that drinking water, seafood, eggs, and brown rice remain significant sources of PFAS exposure for adults.
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EPA standard change prompts renewed PFAS well testing near Atlantic airfield
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9 Jun 2025 | News-Times
The U.S. Navy held an open-house style meeting at Atlantic Elementary School on May 22 to continue its ongoing effort to test private wells near Marine Corps Outlying Landing Field Atlantic for PFAS contamination.
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Particle and per-and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) concentrations from different types of fire extinguishers
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9 Jun 2025 | J. Hazard. Mater
Lab tests show that common foam fire extinguishers release PFAS in concentrations hundreds of times higher than powder or halon models—while powder units emit the most particles—highlighting the urgent need for safer foams and better protective gear.
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Long term trends of legacy per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), their substitutes and precursors in archived wildlife samples from the German Environmental Specimen Bank
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9 Jun 2025 | Environ Int.
Decades of German wildlife records show that although banned C8 PFAS like PFOS have decreased, they are still persistent in gull eggs and fish livers, while longer-chain PFAS and newer short- and ultrashort-chain substitute levels are now increasing.
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[Opinion] PFAS are widespread, not ubiquitous: Clarifying misconceptions about the prevalence of “forever chemicals”
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9 Jun 2025 | Environ. Sci. Technol.
U.S. Geological Survey researchers explain that PFAS occur widely but not literally everywhere on Earth, urging scientists and journalists to replace the term “ubiquitous” with the more accurate term “widespread.”
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Fabrics Like Polyester Can Contain a Number of Chemicals That Might Impact Fertility
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7 Jun 2025 | Discover Magazine
There’s definitely no downside to decreasing your exposure to these chemicals, and while clothing is likely not the largest means of exposure to things like PFAS, phthalates, and BPA, if you’re trying to get pregnant, they’re certainly a good place to start.
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Michigan triples waters with ‘Do Not Eat’ warning for PFAS in fish
Policy
5 Jun 2025
The state of Michigan has tripled the list of lakes and rivers where high concentrations of toxic ‘forever chemicals’ make the fish unsafe to eat.
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Pre-regulatory actions as a driver for reduced PFAS emissions? Long-term trends and change points for human and environmental samples from Germany
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3 Jun 2025 | Environ Sci Eur
A long‑term analysis of German blood, wildlife and water samples found that levels of major PFAS chemicals peaked in the late 1990s–2000s and began dropping roughly a decade before formal bans, suggesting that early voluntary industry shifts rather than regulations triggered the first reductions and highlighting the need for swifter legal action to safeguard health and the environment.
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Ecosystem-wide PFAS characterization and environmental behavior at a heavily contaminated desert oasis in the southwestern US
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2 Jun 2025 | Environmental Research
Researchers discovered that decades of firefighting‑foam runoff have saturated New Mexico’s Holloman Lake and its entire food web with record‑high PFAS, tracing how the pollutants travel from highly saline water through soils and plants into insects, fish, birds and mammals—underscoring an urgent need for remediation.
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Municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plant effluent contributions to per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances in the Potomac River: A basin-scale measuring and modeling approach
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2 Jun 2025 | Environ Sci Technol
A Potomac‑River study finds that both city and factory wastewater plants steadily leak PFAS “forever chemicals” into the basin, enough that, during summer low‑flows, about one in six drinking‑water intakes could exceed new federal limits—showing that tackling the problem requires a whole‑watershed strategy, not just individual pipes.
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Fin Whale as a Sink of Legacy and Emerging Contaminants: First Integrated Chemical Exposomics and Gene Expression Analysis in Cetaceans
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2 Jun 2025 | Environ Sci Technol
Skin and blubber tests on Mediterranean and Gulf‑of‑California fin whales show they soak up a diverse cocktail of legacy pollutants (e.g., PCBs) and newer chemicals such as PFAS, pharmaceuticals, and plastic additives, with region‑specific buildups already shifting gene activity linked to hormones, fat metabolism, and inflammation—evidence that these whales serve as early‑warning sentinels for ocean‑borne pollution threats.
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Minnesota is set to impose new PFAS reporting requirements in January. Manufacturers say they need more time.
Policy
30 May 2025
Manufacturers and trade groups are urging the state to extend the forever chemicals reporting deadline, saying they need more time to sift through complex, multitiered supply chains.
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PFAS ban on everyday household items passes IL Senate
Policy
30 May 2025
This plan would ban PFAS from being added to cosmetics, dental floss, children items and toys, menstrual products, underwear and more. State Sen. Julie Morrison (D-Lake Forest) said Illinois will lead the way in banning these products.
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Chemours and environmentalists face off in court over unlawful pollution in the Ohio River. Here’s what to know.
Policy
30 May 2025
Since 2019, Chemours has discharged unlawful levels of forever chemicals into the Ohio River. The West Virginia Rivers Coalition wants a federal judge to make them stop. Here’s what West Virginians need to know about the courtroom showdown.