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Connecticut Will Inspect More Than 2,400 Locations in the Hunt for Dangerous PFAS Chemical Contamination
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7 Sep 2021 | Hartford Courant
Connecticut’s health agency also plans to spend roughly $500,000 to purchase specialized lab equipment that is needed to detect extremely small amounts of the chemicals in the water.
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How Widespread are PFAS Chemicals? CT Officials Are About to Inspect More Than 2,400 Locations
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30 Aug 2021 | CT Mirror
Connecticut’s health and environmental agencies believe there are other pockets of PFAS contamination hiding throughout the state.
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Pittsboro Leaders Call for National Attention to Town’s PFAS Troubles
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27 Aug 2021 | Chatham News + Record
They hope more attention from national outlets might emphasize the work Pittsboro’s leaders are doing to address the problem despite ongoing water contamination from nearby cities.
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State Officials Present PFAS Findings, Permit Plans to Residents at Newport Forum
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26 Aug 2021 | VT Digger
Tumors found on 30% of the Lake Memphremagog’s brown bullhead fish do not, so far, appear to be caused by PFAS.
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Ineffectiveness of ultrasound at low frequency for treating per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in sewage sludge
Science
4 Aug 2021 | Chemosphere
Ultrasonication was found not efficient at removing PFAS from sewage sludge and would ultimately increase pollution after sludge was disposed of.
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Farmer who lost all to PFAS inspires law to get a day in court
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28 Jul 2021 | Bloomberg Law
A new law clarifies ambiguity in Maine law that legal cases alleging damage or injury from PFAS can be filed up to six years after the harm was or could reasonably have been discovered.
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[Press release] AWWA sends letter supporting Amendment 18 in the PFAS Action Act
Policy
19 Jul 2021
The American Water Works Association today sent a letter urging members of the House Committee on Rules to approve Amendment 18 in H.R. 2467, the PFAS Action Act.
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A long road to recovery for Lake Superior fish
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12 Jul 2021 | Environmental Health News
The Jackfish Bay white sucker population has nearly recovered, but persistent chemicals remain a problem throughout the Great Lakes.
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A ‘Concentrate-&-Destroy’technology for enhanced removal and destruction of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances in municipal landfill leachate
Science
22 Jun 2021 | Sci Total Environ .
A two-step PFAS destruction system was developed and under field, conditions were able to destroy over 80% of PFAS.
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Exploring the integrity of targeted PFASs in extracted wastewater samples during transport and storage stages
Science
16 Jun 2021 | Chemosphere
The integrity of PFAS containing environmental samples during shipping and handling was evaluated.
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Perfluorinated alkyl substances: Sewage treatment and implications for receiving water
Science
16 Jun 2021 | Sci. Total Environ.
Permitting PFAS discharge alone was found not to be able to reduce total PFAS load in rivers.
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‘Forever chemicals’ found in home fertilizer made from sewage sludge
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28 May 2021 | The Guardian
Sewage sludge that wastewater treatment districts across America package and sell as home fertilizer contain alarming levels of toxic PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals”, a new report has revealed.
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Source allocation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) with supervised machine learning: Classification performance and the role of feature selection in an expanded dataset
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24 May 2021 | Chemosphere
Supervised machine learning based on composition can identify patterns that can be used to distinguish PFAS sources.
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FluoroMatch 2.0-making automated and comprehensive non-targeted PFAS annotation a reality
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24 May 2021 | Anal Bioanal Chem
Using the newly developed FluoroMatch Flow 2 software, 1,000 individual PFAS were found in firefighting foam, including previously undescribed compounds.
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Distribution, behaviour, bioavailability and remediation of poly- and per-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in solid biowastes and biowaste-treated soil
Science
18 May 2021 | Environ Int
In this review, the distribution, bioavailability, and remediation of PFAS in soil receiving solid biowastes, which include biosolids, composts, and manure, are presented.