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U.S. tap water has a $47 billion forever chemicals problem
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1 Dec 2023 | CNBC
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is adding some “forever chemicals” to the list of toxins that must be reported by drinking water utilities. That is going to require a lot of infrastructure investment.
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Bipartisan senators want to take on ‘forever chemical’ pollution. Environmental activists are wary
Policy
25 Nov 2023
A key concern for environmentalists is not the provisions of the current draft bill, but discussions related to pollution cleanup and liability.
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UN Probes DuPont, Chemours Over Human Rights Harms From PFAS
Policy
24 Nov 2023
A UN investigative office took aim at three companies tied to historical DuPont, along with the Netherlands and the US, for their role in violating human environmental rights due to PFAS released from a North Carolina factory, according to letters released on Friday.
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Backlash forces EPA to pause toxic PFAS waste imports to US from Netherlands
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22 Nov 2023 | The Guardian
North Carolina residents push back against environmental agency bringing 4m lbs of ‘forever chemical’ waste to the region.
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US industry disposed of at least 60m pounds of PFAS waste in last five years
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17 Nov 2023 | The Guardian
The estimate in the new EPA analysis is probably ‘dramatic’ undercount because ‘forever chemical’ waste is unregulated in the US.
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The race to destroy PFAS, the forever chemicals
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30 Oct 2023 | MIT Technology Review
Scientists are showing these damaging compounds can be beat.
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EPA okays Chemours request to export GenX from the Netherlands to Fayetteville Works plant
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19 Oct 2023 | NC Newsline
The Chemours Fayetteville Works plant can import up to 4 million pounds of GenX from the company’s Netherlands facility over the next year, according to an EPA letter authorizing the shipments — 220 times the amount exported in 2014.
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Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances chemical degradation strategies: insights into the underlying reaction mechanisms
Science
18 Sep 2023 | Curr. Opin. Chem. Eng.
This review discusses how PFAS are degraded by different mechanisms in order to facilitate the advancement of PFAS destruction methods.
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Georgia researchers work to remove harmful forever chemicals from water
News
6 Sep 2023 | WSB-TV
Your tap water could be filled with a major health hazard called forever chemicals.
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Human health risk-based soil generic assessment criteria of representative perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) under the agricultural land use in typical Chinese regions
Science
14 Aug 2023 | Environ Pollut
This study provides a technical reference for deriving soil generic assessment criteria for PFAAs and found that the dominant exposure pathway for PFBA and PFBS in some regions of China was vegetables and attached soil.
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Discussion. Has the human population become an sentinel for the adverse effects of PFAS contamination on wildlife health and endangered species?
Science
2 Aug 2023 | Sci Total Environ
PFAS are detected in wildlife globally, with international efforts needed to restrict PFAS discharges into the environment and to clean up PFAS-contaminated sites in order to protect wildlife from chemical pollution and advance species conservation.
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New study finds harmful forever chemicals in seemingly ‘green’ products: ‘I would not consider that biodegradable’
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29 Jul 2023 | Yahoo News
But a recent study revealed that these biodegradable alternatives might not be as environmentally friendly as they appear.
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Effective communications strategies to increase the impact of environmental health research
Science
18 Jul 2023 | Environ Health
Among peer-reviewed papers with a press release, media attention was associated with better abstract and press release readability, and scholarly citations were associated with media attention, the presence of a press release, and open-access status. Recommendations are also provided for authors to increase the reach and impact of future papers.
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Proposed PFAS Rule Would Cost Companies Estimated $1B; Lacks Limits and Cleanup Requirement
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10 Jul 2023 | KFF Health News
A proposed federal rule calls for forcing companies to disclose whether their products contain toxic “forever” chemicals, the government’s first attempt at cataloging the pervasiveness of PFAS across the United States.
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DuPont seeks US Supreme Court review after $40 million PFAS cancer verdict
Policy
30 Jun 2023
DuPont de Nemours Inc. on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review whether a lower court inappropriately hamstrung its defense during trial over claims that its chemicals caused cancer.