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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.

• EPA Releases National PFAS Datasets Data Collection Tool

  Policy

  6 Apr 2022

  Recently, EPA published a compilation of National PFAS Datasets that include a substantial amount of data regarding sources of PFAS across the country.

• Washington PFAS Law Takes Aim At Consumer Goods

  Policy

  5 Apr 2022

  On March 31, 2022, Washington’s Governor signed into law a bill that significantly accelerates the state’s initiative to develop regulations for various consumer goods that contain PFAS.

• Extracting and Comparing PFAS from Literature and Patent Documents using Open Access Chemistry Toolkits

  Science

  31 Mar 2022 | Comput. Theor. Chem.

  Three open access chemical information toolkits were used to automatically search for PFAS based on structure, and all yielded different results. Overall, ~1.7 million PFAS were identified from patents and ~27 thousand from COnnecting REpositories (CORE).

• ECOS White Paper: Processes and Considerations for Setting State PFAS Standards, 2022 Update

  Policy

  31 Mar 2022

  This March 2022 update reflects the addition of three states and new regulatory and scientific activities that have occurred over the past year. ECOS will continue to update it annually as appropriate.

• Years after flags, Wolverine Worldwide plant caught in PFAS probe

  News

  30 Mar 2022 | MLive

  Investigators have finally made their way to a Wolverine Worldwide facility where the company manufactured shoe parts near the Rogue River, five years after the initial discovery of widespread toxic ‘forever chemical’ pollution in the northern Kent County suburbs.

• ‘I don’t know how we’ll survive’: the farmers facing ruin in Maine’s ‘forever chemicals’ crisis

  News

  22 Mar 2022 | The Guardian

  Songbird Farm’s 17 acres (7 hectares) hold sandy loam fields, three greenhouses and cutover woods that comprise an idyllic setting near Maine’s central coast.

• [Press Release] New Kildee Bill Would Ensure Health Care For Veterans Exposed To PFAS Chemicals

  Policy

  22 Mar 2022

  New Legislation Requires Veterans’ Affairs to Cover Health Conditions Linked to PFAS Contamination at Military Bases.

• How the way we eliminate toxic PFAS from water also takes an environmental toll

  News

  21 Mar 2022 | WHYY.org

  But protecting people’s health has a consequence: The technology most effective at removing PFAS contributes to the carbon footprint.

• UK's safe level for tap water too high - scientists

  Policy

  18 Mar 2022

  Scientists are concerned that the allowable levels of toxic PFAS - known as "forever chemicals" - in UK drinking water are too high.

• PFAS cosmetics studies are “springboard” for litigation

  News

  18 Mar 2022 | Environmental Health News

  Cosmetics companies could face litigation if their products are found to contain PFAS, warn attorneys, as a rash of recent lawsuits hit companies touting themselves as clean but whose products contain evidence of “forever chemicals.”

• Implications of PFAS definitions using fluorinated pharmaceuticals

  Science

  16 Mar 2022 | iScience

  Using nine definitions prepared by various stakeholders, we screened the 360 organofluorine pharmaceuticals approved and used globally between 1954 and 2021.

• Washington State Legislature Passes Bill to Speed Up Restrictions on PFAS “forever chemicals”

  Policy

  16 Mar 2022

  Today, the Washington State legislature sent a bill to Washington Governor Jay Inslee’s desk that steps up action on PFAS “forever chemicals” in products such as raincoats, apparel, and firefighter personal protective equipment. 

• Inside FDA’s ‘forever chemicals’ catastrophe

  News

  7 Mar 2022 | E&E News

  Lawyers for DuPont knew the Food and Drug Administration had a serious concern that the company’s new food packaging product might be toxic.

• [Job] Postdoctoral Research Associate at Michigan State University

  Events

  3 Mar 2022

  Michigan State University seeks a postdoctoral research associate to conduct EPA- and USDA-funded projects to study the occurrence, sorption, transport, plant uptake, and risk assessment of PFAS, pharmaceuticals, and personal care products (PPCPs).