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Toxic disaster of PFAS contamination a nightmare for ME farmers
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15 Apr 2022 | News Center Maine
A toxic disaster centered on wastewater sludge, tainted with industrial compounds known as PFAS chemicals, is unfolding across Maine.
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Rare PFAS factory shutdown in Belgium costs 3M
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13 Apr 2022 | Star Tribune
3M has faced an avalanche of lawsuits and regulatory actions over PFAS but only once has a plant been forced to stop producing the controversial chemicals.
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PFAS bill would expand regulation of ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water
Policy
12 Apr 2022
Alaska lawmakers are considering a bill that would expand testing and regulations for trace amounts of PFAS chemicals in groundwater that’s been linked to cancer and other serious health conditions.
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PFAS: The ‘Forever Chemicals’ You Couldn’t Escape if You Tried
News
12 Apr 2022 | The New York Times
Based on nothing more than their name, PFAS certainly doesn’t sound like something you’d want to find in your burger wrapper.
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Maine guides have a simple solution for avoiding PFAS in freshwater fish
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12 Apr 2022 | Bangor Daily News
Maine’s consideration of issuing more “do not eat” advisories for the state’s freshwater fish is another blow for anglers who have already had to modify their practices due to mercury pollution.
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PFAS on Atmospheric Aerosol Particles: A Review
Science
12 Apr 2022 | Environ Sci Process Impacts
Long-term monitoring of PFAS on the particulate matter should be expanded to include under-sampled regions of the world and further non-targeted analysis is needed to identify novel PFAS structures as PFAS manufacturing and regulations continue to evolve.
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Effect of Plasma and Blood Donations on Levels of Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Firefighters in Australia: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Science
12 Apr 2022 | JAMA Netw Open
Regular blood or plasma donations result in a significant reduction in serum PFAS levels for participant firefighters with a baseline PFOS level of 5 ng/mL or more; plasma donations reduced levels more quickly than blood donations.
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Perfluorinated alkyl substances in Canadian human milk as part of the Maternal-Infant Research on Environmental Chemicals (MIREC) study
Science
12 Apr 2022 | Sci Total Environ
Primiparous women had elevated PFAS concentrations in milk relative to women who had children previously, and the region of material birth did not influence PFAS concentrations.
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Chemours claims toxic PFAS Chemical GenX Protects the Climate
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11 Apr 2022 | The Intercept
The DuPont spinoff claims that the transition away from fossil fuels depends on its cancer-causing PFAS chemical GenX.
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Want single-use foodware without harmful chemicals? A new certification will help you find it
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11 Apr 2022 | Environmental Health News
Here’s a secret about single-use foodware: brands and manufacturers don’t have to tell what’s in it, and in some cases, they don’t even know.
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Exploring the origin of efficient adsorption of poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances in household point-of-use water purifiers: Deep insights from a joint experimental and computational study
Science
11 Apr 2022 | Sci Total Environ
Household point-of-use water purifiers using activated carbon can achieve up to 99% removal of 14 legacy and emerging PFAS in tap water.
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New Washington state bill is the “fastest timeline in the nation” for phasing out PFAS
Policy
7 Apr 2022
A new Washington state bill, signed into law last Thursday by Gov. Jay Inslee, aims to phase out PFAS in select consumer products by 2025.
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Aclarity Closes $3.3 Million Seed Round To Deploy PFAS Destruction Technology, Eliminate Cancerous Chemicals From Water
News
7 Apr 2022 | Forbes
A federal roadmap for addressing PFAS chemicals calls for more cleanup work in the United States.
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PFAS Air Regulations Proposed By House
Policy
6 Apr 2022
In the latest federal legislative move to try to force the EPA to take quicker action than contemplated by the agency’s PFAS Roadmap of 2021, a bill was recently introduced in the House that would require the EPA to set air emission limits for all PFAS under the Clean Air Act
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Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Facemasks: Potential Source of Human Exposure to PFAS with Implications for Disposal to Landfills
Science
6 Apr 2022 | ES&T
Preliminary findings indicate that wearing masks treated with high levels of PFAS for extended periods of time can be a notable source of PFAS exposure and have the potential to pose a health risk.