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PFAS Task Force secures $200M to clean up chemicals at former military bases
News
14 Jul 2020 | UpNorthLive
This funding will help to clean up PFAS contamination in communities such as former Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Oscoda, MI.
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Colorado water officials create first-ever regulations for ‘forever chemical’ PFAS
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14 Jul 2020 | CPR News
The state’s Water Quality Control Commission voted unanimously to enact a policy to put new limits on PFAS.
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Perfluoroalkyl, fluorotelomer sulfonate, and perfluorooctane sulfonamide contamination in biosolids: Composition, co-contamination and re-use implication
Science
13 Jul 2020 | Env. Poll.
Biosolids from 12 wastewater treatment plants across Australia were collected and analyzed for their PFAS concentrations.
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Spatial profiles of perfluoroalkyl substances and mercury in fish from northern Lake Victoria, East Africa
Science
13 Jul 2020 | Chemosphere
Trophic magnification is a key factor in the PFAS and MeHg+ spatial profiles.
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Efficient Photocatalytic PFOA Degradation over Boron Nitride
Science
13 Jul 2020 | ES&T L
Boron nitride was found to efficiently defluorinate PFAS when combined with UV light.
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Whitmer signs bills regulating PFAS foam use at Michigan fire stations
Policy
8 Jul 2020
Fire departments would have 48 hours to tell state regulators about the use of a chemical-based firefighting foam type that’s caused drinking water contamination around Michigan under legislation signed into law
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Occurrence, fate, sources and toxicity of PFAS: What we know so far in Florida and major gaps
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8 Jul 2020 | TrAC Trends in Analy. Chem.
This critical review presents a summary of the recent literature, databases, and investigations of PFAS contamination in Florida, focusing on PFAS occurrence, major sources and treatment methods.
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A Resonance Rayleigh Scattering and Colorimetric Dual-Channel Sensor for Sensitive Detection of Perfluorooctane Sulfonate Based on Toluidine Blue
Science
7 Jul 2020 | Anal Bioanal Chem
A new method was developed and used to detect PFOS in water.
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Widespread PFAS chemical pollution will likely make COVID-19 worse
News
5 Jul 2020 | Massive Science
These common household and industrial chemicals impair immune system function.
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Michigan lawmakers make another push to crack down on PFAS
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1 Jul 2020 | Michigan Advance
A top priority: Requiring the U.S. EPA to create a national enforceable drinking water standard for certain types of PFAS within two years and list them as hazardous substances under the nation’s Superfund law.
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Removal of Per- And Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs) in a Full-Scale Drinking Water Treatment Plant: Long-term Performance of Granular Activated Carbon (GAC) and Influence of Flow-Rate
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30 Jun 2020 | Water Res.
A cost-analysis for various operation scenarios illustrated the dominating effect of treatment goals and costs for granular activated carbon regeneration and operation costs.
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Non-target and suspect screening of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in Chinese municipal wastewater treatment plants
Science
30 Jun 2020 | Water Res.
63 PFAS was found in wastewater with emerging PFAS not effectively removed using traditional methods.
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Thermal desorption as a high removal remediation technique for soils contaminated with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs)
Science
30 Jun 2020 | PLoS ONE
PFSAs and FOSAs showed higher removal than the perfluoroalkyl carboxylates PFCAs using thermal desorption.
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Toxicity of Balb-C Mice Exposed to Recently Identified 1,1,2,2-Tetrafluoro-2-[1,1,1,2,3,3-hexafluoro-3-(1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethoxy)propan-2-yl]oxyethane-1-sulfonic acid (PFESA-BP2)
Science
30 Jun 2020 | Toxicology
PFAS from the Cape Fear River basin in North Carolina was associated with increased liver and body weight percents.
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Characterizing and Comparing Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Commercially Available Biosolid and Organic Nonbiosolid-based Products
Science
29 Jun 2020 | ES&T
Pore-water concentrations of water-saturated products were primarily of short-chain PFAS.