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Shapiro: ‘Legal action’ coming for companies tied to PFAS drinking water contamination
News
23 Oct 2019 | The Intelligencer
Attorney General Josh Shapiro says his office will file legal action in the coming months against companies that made firefighting foams. Chemicals found in the foams have contaminated Bucks and Montgomery County communities.
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GenX protest at plant near Fayetteville on Oct. 26
News
22 Oct 2019 | Fayetteville Observer
People angry about the GenX chemical contamination of water supplies south of Fayetteville plan to hold a protest at the Chemours Co. chemical plant.This will be held in conjunction with other protests at Chemours operations in Italy and Mexico.
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10 toxic ‘forever chemicals’ found in Louisville, KY, tap water
News
22 Oct 2019 | EWG News
The highest level of any single PFAS detected in the EWG sample collected in Louisville was 22 ppt of a compound known as GenX. It is a replacement chemical for PFOA, which was used to make Teflon before U.S. manufacturers phased it out of production under pressure from the EPA. The EPA’s research has found that GenX is nearly as toxic as the PFOA it replaced, and DuPont, its original manufacturer, has provided test results to the EPA showing that GenX caused cancer in lab animals.
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Victoria, Australia: Interim Position Statement on PFAS
Policy
22 Oct 2019
The EPA in Victoria, Australia adopts precautionary interim PFAS management standards while waiting on national regulation.
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Themed issues on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances
Science
22 Oct 2019 | Royal Soc. of Chem.
A summary of current PFAS research focused on sources, analytical techniques, toxicity, regulation, and remediaiton.
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Clean drinking water options for Hoosick Falls considered
News
21 Oct 2019 | Bennington Banner
Connecting to the existing Troy system was seen as the most expensive, at $48.5 million; connecting to a new untreated surface water source from the Tomhannock, at $34.4 million; continued filtering of existing village wells plus a remediation system for contaminants at McCaffrey Street, $10.1 million; development of a new village well water sources, at $6.9 million, and continued use of filtering alone at the existing village wells at $6.3 million. Comments on the report will be accepted until Nov. 18.
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Multi-compartment distribution of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in an urban catchment system
Science
21 Oct 2019 | Water Res.
Short-chain PFAS found to be easily transported and dissolved in water compared to long-chain counterparts.
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Lawsuit wants tough PFAS drinking water standards in NH scrapped
News
18 Oct 2019 | Associated Press
Lawyers for 3M, a farmer and several others urged a judge to scrap drinking water standards in the state that go far beyond federal limits for toxic chemicals.
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EPA touts success in reducing children’s chemical exposures, fails to account for emerging contaminants
News
16 Oct 2019 | Bloomberg Environment
According to Barbara Morrissey, chairwoman of EPA’s Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee, the reductions are “worth celebrating but only part of the picture.” To get a fuller understanding of exposure trends, the EPA’s indicators must be updated with exposure measurements for new chemicals that replaced older ones that were phased out
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Governor DeWine issues order to analyze PFAS in Ohio’s drinking water
News
15 Oct 2019 | JD Supra
Ohio EPA and ODH have been directed to develop an “action plan” by December 1, 2019, with the focus of testing public and private water systems. The governor’s order specifically notes that water supplies “near known sources of PFAS, such as firefighting training sites and manufacturing facilities” are to be analyzed.
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The PFOA substitute GenX detected in the environment near a fluoropolymer manufacturing plant in the Netherlands
Science
14 Oct 2019 | Chemosphere
GenX and PFOA also detected in drinking water samples radiating from a manufacturing facility.
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Electrochemical Oxidation of Hexafluoropropylene Oxide Dimer Acid (GenX): Mechanistic Insights and Efficient Treatment Train with Nanofiltration
Science
13 Oct 2019 | Environ. Sci. Technol.
Nanofiltration found to be a cost-effective treatment for water contaminated with GenX and other PFAS.
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Toxic PFAS chemicals found in artificial turf
News
8 Oct 2019 | The Intercept
PFAS chemicals have been identified in synthetic turf, according to lab tests performed on several samples of the artificial grass that were shared with The Intercept. The presence of the chemicals, members of a class that has been associated with multiple health problems, including cancer, adds to growing concerns about the grass replacement that covers many thousands of acres in parks, schools, professional sports stadiums, and practice fields around the U.S.
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Rob Bilott Book Launch Meet and Greet
Events
6 Oct 2019
The Green Science Policy Institute is hosting a book party to launch Rob Bilott's new book Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle against Dupont.
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Efficient removal of GenX (HFPO-DA) and other perfluorinated ether acids from drinking and recycled waters using anion exchange resins
Science
30 Sep 2019 | Jour. of Haz. Mat.
Complete remediation of GenX achieved from drinking water.