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[Informational Webinar] EPA's Innovative Ways to Destroy PFAS Challenge
Events
23 Nov 2020
EPA is partnering with the other stakeholders, to co-sponsor a technical challenge regarding the destruction of PFAS. The challenge asks solvers to submit detailed plans for a non-thermal way of destroying PFAS in AFFF, while creating the least amount of potentially harmful byproducts with a $50,000 prize.
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Well water throughout California contaminated with ‘forever chemicals’
News
19 Nov 2020 | CALmatters
Californians are largely left in the dark about the safety of their drinking water: Less than 9% of roughly 14,350 public drinking water wells in the state have been tested for PFOA and PFOS. State requirements have focused on areas considered vulnerable to contamination, such as near airports and landfills.
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Op-Ed: Dear Joe Biden: are you kidding me?
News
19 Nov 2020 | The Guardian
The president-elect has tapped a former DuPont consultant to join his Environmental Protection Agency transition board.
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Air-water interfacial adsorption coefficients for PFAS when present as a multi-component mixture
Science
17 Nov 2020 | J Contam Hydrol
Models found that PFAS mobility can be affected by the concentration and homogeneity of PFAS mixtures.
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Exposure to PFAS and small for gestational age new-borns: A birth records study in Veneto Region (Italy)
Science
17 Nov 2020 | Environ Res
Living in a contaminated area by PFAS may play a role in affecting fetal growth and support the hypothesis that PFAS exposure is a risk factor for lower than average gestational growth.
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‘Forever chemicals’ found in Chesapeake seafood and Maryland drinking water
News
17 Nov 2020 | Bay Journal
States like New Jersey urged its anglers to limit consumption of recreationally caught fish with comparable PFOS levels to what was found in the Potomac River striped bass.
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Recent progress in the detection of emerging contaminants PFASs
Science
17 Nov 2020 | J Haz. Mat.
The challenge and future directions in PFASs sensor development are discussed.
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Solvay withholds data about toxic PFAS pollution in New Jersey
News
17 Nov 2020 | The Intercept
New Jersey has sued Solvay Specialty Polymers over its refusal to release secret studies of its PFAS chemicals.
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Biden EPA transition team member helped DuPont dodge responsibility for PFOA
Policy
11 Nov 2020
Michael McCabe, a former EPA official and aide to Joe Biden, led DuPont’s defense of PFOA avoiding regulation that would have cost DuPont dearly.
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Biden EPA transition team member helped DuPont dodge responsibility for PFOA
News
11 Nov 2020 | The Intercept
Michael McCabe, a former EPA official and aide to Joe Biden, led DuPont’s defense of PFOA avoiding regulation that would have cost DuPont dearly.
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The Biden plan to secure environmental justice
Policy
10 Nov 2020
Biden will tackle PFAS pollution by designating PFAS as a hazardous substance, setting enforceable limits for PFAS in the Safe Drinking Water Act, prioritizing substitutes through procurement, and accelerating toxicity studies and research on PFAS.
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U.S. military responsible for widespread PFAS pollution in Japan
News
9 Nov 2020 | The Intercept
A new book by Jon Mitchell exposes “countless” releases of PFAS chemicals by the U.S. military in Japan.
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State launches study on PFAS and health effects in West Michigan
News
9 Nov 2020 | WWMT
The study will sample PFAS in drinking water and the health markers such as thyroid hormones and cholesterol among residents of Parchment and Cooper Township in Kalamazoo County and the Belmont and Rockford areas of Kent County.
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[Press Release] Wisconsin state agencies announce additional groundwater quality standard recommendations
News
6 Nov 2020 | Wisconsin Department of Health Services
These recommendations include 12 individual PFAS.
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Deterministic risk assessment of firefighting water additives to aquatic organisms
Science
3 Nov 2020 | Ecotoxicology
This study investigated the toxicity of six firefighting PFAS additives: Eco-Gel™, Thermo-Gel™, FireAde™, Fire-Brake™, Novacool Foam™, and F-500™ to aquatic biota.