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Polluters could pay billions in fines for PFAS cleanup under new Biden plan
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29 Aug 2022 | The Guardian
The Biden administration on Friday announced a new proposal that could force polluters of two common PFAS compounds to pay billions of dollars for the toxic substances’ cleanup.
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EPA Proposes Designating Certain PFAS Chemicals as Hazardous Substances Under Superfund to Protect People’s Health
Policy
26 Aug 2022
The proposal applies to PFOA and PFOS, including their salts and structural isomers, and is based on significant evidence that they may present a substantial danger to human health or welfare or the environment.
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EPA to designate ‘forever chemicals’ as hazardous substances
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26 Aug 2022 | AP News
The Environmental Protection Agency moved Friday to designate two “forever chemicals” used in cookware, carpets and firefighting foams as hazardous substances, a step that would clear the way for quicker cleanup of the toxic compounds, which have been linked to cancer and other health problems.
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You probably have “forever chemicals” in your body. Here’s what that means.
News
25 Aug 2022 | Vox
A chemist explains how PFAS can harm us — and what to do about them.
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‘Forever chemicals’: What are PFAS and can we solve this persistent pollution problem?
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19 Aug 2022 | Euronews
We need to turn off the tap on PFAS pollution, and to do that we need to stop all unnecessary use of PFAS as soon as possible.
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Bioaccumulation and trophic transfer of perfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) in marine biota from the Belgian North Sea: Distribution and human health risk implications
Science
16 Aug 2022 | Environ Pollut
Potential human consumption risks were expected for some PFAS-contaminated species such as brown shrimp, plaice, sole, and whiting.
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[Scientific Poster] Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances: A Preliminary Evaluation of Groundwater Contamination in the Western States
Science
15 Aug 2022
A map of estimated PFAS groundwater contamination created from groundwater data and geostatistical tools found very few areas in major aquifers where PFAS concentrations are under the new EPA health advisory limits.
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Shaheen, Collins & Bipartisan Group of Senators Call on EPA to Ensure Funding from Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Helps Address PFAS Contamination in Private Wells
Policy
5 Aug 2022
U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Susan Collins led a bipartisan group of Senators calling on the EPA to ensure funding allocated in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to combat PFAS contamination in small and underserved communities is available to address contamination in residential wells.
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‘They all knew’: textile company misled regulators about use of toxic PFAS, documents show
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5 Aug 2022 | The Guardian
A French industrial fabric producer that poisoned drinking water supplies with PFAS “forever chemicals” across 65 sq miles of southern New Hampshire misled regulators about the amount of toxic substance it used.
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Massive Quantities of PFAS Waste Go Unreported to EPA
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5 Aug 2022 | The Intercept
US Ecology failed to report more than 11 million pounds of PFAS-contaminated waste at its facility in Beatty, Nevada.
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How Colorado is preventing PFAS contamination from the oil and gas industry
Policy
4 Aug 2022
In June, Colorado became the first state to ban the use of PFAS during oil and gas extraction — and now, in light of recent research finding the potential for widespread contamination, some are calling for a similar ban in Pennsylvania.
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Outside the Safe Operating Space of a New Planetary Boundary for Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)
Science
2 Aug 2022 | ES&T
PFAS have been detected at unsafe levels in rain globally, leading to the conclusions that the spread of PFOS, PFOA, PFHxS, and PFNA in the atmosphere has exceeded levels of concern for chemical pollution and that PFAS uses and emissions should be rapidly restricted.
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Scientists Develop New Material to Clean Up Forever Chemicals
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1 Aug 2022 | EcoWatch
Researchers from Texas A&M AgriLife of Texas A&M University have developed a new bioremediation technology using plant-based material and fungi that could take care of cleaning up per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
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The PFAS-Tox Database: A systematic evidence map of health studies on 29 per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances
Science
1 Aug 2022 | Environ. Int.
In this summary of the PFAS-Tox Database we provide examples of data gaps and clusters revealed by the database, with the goal of helping direct future research efforts, facilitate systematic reviews (e.g. on immune effects, mixtures of PFAS, or effects of short chain PFAS), inform regulatory risk assessments, and improve opportunities for cross-disciplinary coordination.
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Rhode Island PFAS Regulations Become Law
Policy
1 Aug 2022
On June 27, 2022, Rhode Island passed two new laws into effect that regulate six types of PFAS in food packaging, drinking water, ground water, surface waters, and landfills.