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A PFAS First: New Mexico Exempts Fluoropolymers From Its PFAS Product Ban
Policy
9 Apr 2025
Yesterday, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed the first state ban on products with intentionally added PFAS to exempt fluoropolymers.
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Inhance sues EPA to keep PFAS data confidential
News
9 Apr 2025 | C&EN
Inhance Technologies, a small Texas-based company that fluorinates plastic containers, is fighting to keep its R&D testing data confidential.
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I was investigating PFAS. Then a doctor told me to put it in my eyes.
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9 Apr 2025 | The Michigan Star Tribune
But knowingly dropping PFAS into my eyes still felt weird. At my next eye doctor appointment, I decided to ask about other options.
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PFAS regulations and economic impact: A review of U.S. pulp & paper and textiles industries
Science
8 Apr 2025 | Chemosphere
The pulp, paper, and textiles industries face financial risks from PFAS pollution, including treatment costs projected at $3 billion annually, product bans, recycling disruptions, and lawsuits like an $11.9 million paper mill settlement, all due to widespread emissions, contamination, and lack of PFAS-specific regulations.
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NSF announces PFAS-free certification for nonfood compounds and food equipment materials
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7 Apr 2025 | The National Law Review
The press release notes that “PFAS-free means that the product contains no intentionally added PFAS, no post-consumer recycled material, no intentionally used PFAS additives (PPA, etc.) and the Total Organic Fluorine [(TOF)] is less than 50 [parts per million (ppm)].” Certification will require that TOF levels be retested annually.
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Removing PFAS from Semiconductor Manufacturing, From Resists to Rinses
News
3 Apr 2025 | EE Times
This article delves into the efforts and challenges faced by the semiconductor industry, particularly through the lens of imec’s initiatives, to eliminate PFAS from their materials.
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Oregon moves to regulate harmful ‘forever chemicals’
Policy
2 Apr 2025
Oregon’s list of regulated hazardous substances is getting its first update in nearly two decades with the addition of six “forever chemicals” known to harm human health.
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[Opinion] Trump's admin lands a blow in the Cumberland fight against 'forever chemicals'
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1 Apr 2025 | Fayetteville Observer
The federal shift on 'forever chemicals' comes as findings show they are in our water, soil, vegetables and blood. Many Cumberland and Bladen residents are still on bottled and filtered water.
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Per-and polyfluoroalkyl ether acid (PFEA) concentrations in indoor dust are higher in homes closer to a fluorochemical manufacturing facility
Science
31 Mar 2025 | Environ. Sci. Technol.
Homes closer to a PFAS manufacturing facility in North Carolina had significantly higher levels of toxic PFAS—including GenX and Nafion byproducts—in indoor dust, suggesting that air emissions from the facility may be a major source of exposure, especially for children.
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NSF Lists PPI PIPE as the First Global Company with the “+ PFAS Tested” designation for their PVC Pipe and Fittings Products
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28 Mar 2025 | Business Wire
NSF announced that South Korea’s PPI PIPE Co. Ltd. is the first company to add the “+ PFAS Tested” label to its certified PVC pipes and fittings used in drinking water systems.
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New Mexico set to become third state to implement full PFAS product ban
Policy
27 Mar 2025
The concurrent pieces of legislation, which have both passed through the state Legislature, would prohibit most items that contain these compounds, while also deeming specific types of discarded firefighting foam as hazardous waste.
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Two new families of PFAS-free solvents for next-generation batteries
News
26 Mar 2025 | Tech Xplore
The Amanchukwu Lab at UChicago PME wants to flip that script. In two recent papers, the team designed two new families of PFAS-free solvents that make ideal components for next-generation batteries.
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Contaminations from lithium-ion battery fires—per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in soot
Science
26 Mar 2025 | Fire Technology
Fires involving lithium-ion batteries release significant amounts of toxic PFAS chemicals into soot, with higher temperatures causing greater emissions—raising urgent concerns for environmental safety and battery recycling.
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Non-metal roofing materials as potential sources for pollutants-laboratory leaching studies on various roofing materials
Science
24 Mar 2025 | J. Hazard. Mater.
PFAS were detected in leachate from several common non-metal roofing materials—such as fiber cement and bitumen shingles—indicating that rooftops may be an overlooked source of PFAS pollution in urban stormwater runoff.
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Maine Considers Bill to Establish Maximum Levels of PFAS in Farm Products
Policy
20 Mar 2025
If passed, Maine’s SB130, titled An Act to Establish the PFAS Response Program and to Modify the Fund To Address PFAS Contamination, would be the first state law to establish PFAS limits in food.