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State appeals court upholds ruling that DNR lacks broad authority to regulate PFAS
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6 Mar 2024 | Wisconsin Public Radio
The 2-1 decision has dealt a blow to the agency's authority to clean up PFAS under Wisconsin's spills law.
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Maine compromise would exempt some industries from ban on ‘forever chemicals’
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6 Mar 2024 | Portland Press Herald
The proposal by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection would exempt some federally regulated industries such as the automotive, aeronautical and defense sectors from an impending 2030 ban on the sale of products that contain forever chemicals, even if a safer chemical alternative is available.
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Biosolids, an important route for transporting poly-and perfluoroalkyl substances from wastewater treatment plants into the environment: A systematic review
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6 Mar 2024 | Sci. Total Environ.
This review examined the presence and behavior of PFAS in wastewater treatment plants, revealing variations in PFAS concentrations across plants, the role of biological mechanisms in PFAS transformation, and the influence of factors like carbon chain length and wastewater composition on PFAS adsorption in sludge, emphasizing the need for improved management strategies to address PFAS contamination in environmental systems.
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The dangers of PFAS — and of downplaying their ubiquity
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5 Mar 2024 | High Country News
Even well-meaning officials often provide inadequate or misleading information, putting communities at higher risk.
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Europe’s proposed PFAS ban: The next big thing in medical device design and supply
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5 Mar 2024 | Elkem
On 13 January 2022, five EU member states submitted an official proposal to ban an entire chemicals class containing some 10,000 substances to the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA).
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PFAS is piling up in our trash. Can we keep it contained?
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5 Mar 2024 | Star Tribune
SKB is experimenting with filtering PFAS chemicals out of that liquid. The leachate is pumped inside the trailer, where it travels through several tanks that repeatedly froth it up.
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Effect modification by maternal vitamin D status in the association between prenatal exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and neurodevelopment in 2-year-old children
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5 Mar 2024 | Environ Int
In a Chinese birth cohort, researchers investigated how prenatal exposure to PFAS affects childhood neurodevelopment, finding that while PFAS exposure was linked to lower language scores and increased risk of delay overall, the impact varied based on maternal vitamin D levels.
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Prenatal exposure to mixtures of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and organochlorines affects cognition in adolescence independent of postnatal exposure
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5 Mar 2024 | Int J Hyg Environ Health
This study investigated the cognitive effects of prenatal exposure to PFAS and organochlorines, finding that higher prenatal exposure to these chemicals, particularly PFHxS and PFNA, is associated with improved sustained and selective attention during adolescence, regardless of exposure levels at adolescence. However, the authors suggest the results should be interpreted with caution due to limited understanding of biological pathways and prior studies showing neurotoxic effects from PFAS.
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Association between prenatal exposure to per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances and infant anthropometry: A prospective cohort study
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4 Mar 2024 | Int. J. Hyg. Environ. Health
Prenatal exposure to PFAS was linked to altered infant growth patterns, with PFNA and PFDoA associated with increased size in females, and PFOA correlated with decreased weight, head, and arm circumference in males, suggesting potential impacts on offspring growth trajectories.
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Japan’s food safety panel drafts intake limit for 'forever chemicals'
Policy
4 Mar 2024
The Food Safety Commission of Japan released a draft report last month on the daily intake limit for PFAS, a set of fluorinated chemicals recently linked to a range of health issues such as cancer and pregnancy complications.
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Kimberly-Clark factory where Kleenex made pollutes town with PFAS, lawsuit says
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4 Mar 2024 | Reuters
Kimberly-Clark has been hit with a proposed class action filed by Connecticut residents living near a facility where it makes Kleenex accusing the consumer goods company of contaminating their properties and drinking water with toxic ‘forever chemicals.’
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Competition to destroy ‘forever chemicals’ heats up
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4 Mar 2024 | Britt E. Erickson
Cleantech start-ups vie for a piece of the PFAS destruction market.
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‘The heart of the problem’: Why hundreds of activists stormed a forever chemical plant in Lyon
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3 Mar 2024 | Euronews Green
Hundreds of climate activists stormed a ‘forever chemical’ plant in Lyon, France, this weekend.
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Texas farmers claim company sold them PFAS-contaminated sludge that killed livestock
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1 Mar 2024 | The Guardian
Two ranches also allege biosolids with ‘forever chemicals’ ruined crops, polluted drinking water and left their properties worthless.
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Prediction of the Interactions of a Large Number of Per- and Poly-Fluoroalkyl Substances with Ten Nuclear Receptors
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29 Feb 2024 | Environ Sci Technol
Modeling and machine-learning was used to study interactions between thousands of PFAS and nuclear receptors – these interactions can be indicative of endocrine and metabolic disruption – and the authors urge biological validation of their computational findings on a diverse set of PFAS.