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Commentary: What ‘Dark Waters’ reveals about corporate science
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2 Dec 2019 | Chicago Tribune
When government agencies consider potentially harmful exposures and activities... they should insist the regulated industries... be required to pay for the research, but the studies... be conducted by scientists without conflicts of interest, under provisions that ensure their complete independence.
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What ‘Dark Waters’ reveals about corporate science
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26 Nov 2019 | Bloomberg Opinion
When the first public concerns abound the compound emerged, DuPont did what too many corporations do: They took a page from Big Tobacco’s playbook and hired a firm to sow doubt about the scientific evidence.
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Inflammatory bowel disease and biomarkers of gut inflammation and permeability in a community with high exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances through drinking water
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25 Nov 2019 | Environ. Res.
PFAS exposure from 1985-1994 thought to be linked with a high risk of Crohn's disease.
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‘Forever chemicals’ found in drinking water across Kentucky
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21 Nov 2019 | WFPL
In total, PFAS were found in 41 of the 81 water treatment plants sampled. In about 82 percent of those samples, researchers found levels under five ppt. The highest levels (PFOS + PFOA at 42 ppt or sum of all PFAS at 66 ppt) were measured in Eastern Kentucky along the Ohio River in South Shore.
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Pentagon admits it undercounted military bases contaminated with ‘forever chemicals’
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21 Nov 2019 | EWG Blog
“The Defense Department worked with 3M to create fluorinated foams and has known it was toxic for decades but failed to alert service members or clean up legacy pollution,” said Scott Faber, EWG’s senior vice president for government affairs. “Now we learn they haven’t even tallied up the full scope of PFAS contamination on military bases."
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Mark Ruffalo’s environmental drama ‘Dark Waters’ gets DC premiere
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20 Nov 2019 | The Hill
In his new film, Ruffalo plays lawyer Robert Bilott, who spent 20 years fighting a class action lawsuit against the DuPont chemical company, winning a more than $600 million settlement in 2017. The suit was over toxic runoff from a DuPont landfill with PFAS chemicals, which linger and contaminate water and food sources long after their initial use. There is no federal regulation of these chemicals, though the US EPA acknowledges that exposure to them can be dangerous for humans and that the chemicals can be found in food and water supplies.
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PFAS chemicals raise questions about water safety
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15 Nov 2019 | Seacoast Online
“Unfortunately, we have only begun to explore the extent of the PFAS problem,” said Patrick MacRoy, the deputy director of the Environmental Health Strategy Center. “Relatively few water supplies in Maine have been tested, and the state has yet to test most of the agricultural lands that were contaminated by PFAS-laden sludge. In addition to polluting the groundwater, this contamination may also be contaminating crops and animal feed, allowing PFAS to enter our food supply. The state must take aggressive action to uncover where we are being exposed to PFAS.
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Perfluoroalkyl Substances in Drinking Water, Indoor Air and Dust from Ireland: Implications for Human Exposure
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11 Nov 2019 | Environ. Sci. & Tech.
PFAS was detected in the air inside cars, school classrooms, and drinking water.
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Tap water at Trump National Golf Course contaminated with ‘forever chemicals’
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6 Nov 2019 | Newsweek
PFOA levels reached 3.5 and 3.6 ppt at Jersey golf course.
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Treatment of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in landfill leachate: status, chemistry and prospects
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31 Oct 2019 | Envir. Sci.: Water Research & Tech.
A comprehensive review of PFAS in municipal landfills due to the massive uses of PFAS in everyday consumer products
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Removal of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) from tap water using heterogeneously catalyzed ozonation
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31 Oct 2019 | Envir. Sci.: Water Research & Tech
A new method of removing PFAS from contaminated drinking water was explored.
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The determination of two emerging perfluoroalkyl substances and related halogenated sulfonic acids and their significance for the drinking water supply chain
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31 Oct 2019 | Environ Sci Process Impacts
Detection techniques were developed to assess the occurrence and levels of PFAS in European waters.
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PFAS chemicals showing up in public water supplies in Maine, according to CDC
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30 Oct 2019 | News Center Maine
The samples were taken mostly at schools, water treatment plants and mobile home parks. More than a dozen local water districts declined to let their water be tested.
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Mark Ruffalo, Todd Haynes talk ‘Dark Waters’: ‘Our environmental future is at stake’
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29 Oct 2019 | Variety
“It is the truth,” Bilott said, assessing how accurate he feels the film is. “They did an amazing job condensing [20 years] into two hours. I was a little skeptical at first…about whether I should do something like this, but it was clear that [Mark] was doing it for the right reason: to bring the story out, to do it accurately and [he] wanted to show what really happened.”
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Up to 40,000 to sue Australian Government over PFAS contamination
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29 Oct 2019 | news.com.au
The largest class action ever launched in Australia will be filed against the Federal Government by Christmas. The lawyers will argue that residents living in PFAS contaminated areas have seen their property prices fall, in some cases by up to 50 per cent. They believe the Federal Government should provide enough compensation to allow residents to leave these unsafe communities.