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The E.P.A. Promotes Toxic Fertilizer. 3M Told It of Risks Years Ago
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2 Jan 2025 | The New York Times
The agency obtained research from 3M in 2003 revealing that sewage sludge, the raw material for the fertilizer, carried toxic “forever chemicals.”
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Japan to make tougher standard permanent for PFAS in tap water
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26 Dec 2024 | Star and Stripes
The Environment Ministry during an online experts meeting Tuesday agreed to adopt a target value of 50 nanograms per liter, or 50 parts per trillion, for PFOS and PFOA — components of PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals” — in its water quality standards.
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Study Finds 'Forever Chemicals' in This Common Wearable Tech
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25 Dec 2024 | Men's Journal
The class action lawsuit, filed in October by law firm Baird Mandalas Brockstedt and Federico on behalf of homeowners who live near the Perdue Agribusiness facility on Zion Church Road, seeks monetary damages and remediation for Perdue’s alleged role in PFAS groundwater contamination.
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Predicted Potential for Aquatic Exposure Effects of Per-and Polyfluorinated Alkyl Substances (PFAS) in Pennsylvania’s Statewide Network of Streams
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19 Dec 2024 | Toxics
A machine learning model was used to effectively predict the ecological health risks of PFAS in Pennsylvania stream water, finding that industrial/urban land cover, rainfall intensity, geology, and agricultural factors had the greatest impacts.
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Virginia DEQ Begins Identifying Potential Sources of PFAS in Public Drinking Water
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19 Dec 2024 | The National Law Review
The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality has begun issuing notifications to facilities in the Commonwealth that it has identified as potential sources of PFAS detected in public drinking water systems.
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FDA Shares Testing Results for PFAS in Clams
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19 Dec 2024 | The National Law Review
On December 18, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration shared its latest test results for PFAS in clams as follow up to its findings in the 2022 PFAS in seafood survey.
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Why Are Pesticide Companies Fighting State Laws to Address PFAS?
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18 Dec 2024 | Civil Eats
In Maine, Maryland, and beyond, the industry is using a well-worn playbook to slow legislators’ attempts to get forever chemicals out of food and water.
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Late lessons from early warnings on PFAS
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17 Dec 2024 | Nature Water
Recent PFAS regulations in the U.S. and Europe highlight the need for significant investment by water providers, innovation to avoid harmful replacements, and reforms to regulatory approaches that have historically focused on case-by-case assessments anddelayed action despite early warnings of PFAS persistence, bioaccumulation, and toxicity.
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Texas sues DuPont, 3M over ‘forever chemicals’ in consumer products
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13 Dec 2024 | The Hill
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit on Dec. 11 against manufacturers 3M and DuPont for misrepresenting the health risks of products made with forever chemicals.
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Occurrence, Transport, and Full-Scale Adsorptive Removal of PFAS in Electroplating Parks in China
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11 Dec 2024 | Environ. Sci. Technol.
Granular activated carbon and hydrophobic anion exchange resin were found to effectively remove up to 98.2% of PFAS from electroplating wastewater in China, reducing annual PFAS discharge by 5030–8000 kg. Anion exchange resin showed higher efficiency but lower selectivity for certain PFAS.
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Impacts of Gestational F-53B Exposure on Fetal Neurodevelopment: Insights from Placental and Thyroid Hormone Disruption
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11 Dec 2024 | Environ Health (Wash)
Exposure to the PFOS replacement chemical F-53B during pregnancy led to its accumulation in the placenta and fetal brain, disrupting thyroid hormone transport and gene regulation, ultimately causing fetal growth issues and impaired brain development in mice.
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EPA Proposes to Update Proposed SNURs for 17 PFAS, Designating Manufacture (Including Import) as a Significant New Use
Policy
9 Dec 2024
On November 29, 2024, the U.S. EPA issued a supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking that would update the December 2, 2022, proposed significant new use rules for 17 PFAS that were the subject of premanufacture notices and are also subject to an Order issued by EPA pursuant to the Toxic Substances Control Act.
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‘This is my Chernobyl:’ Texas ranchers watch cows die because of PFAS
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7 Dec 2024 | News Nation
Testing by the county revealed contamination that curiously extended from the fertilizer spread on the neighbor’s farmland across the street — to the soil and water on the Colemans’ properties, as well as their animals.
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Their Fertilizer Poisons Farmland. Now, They Want Protection From Lawsuits.
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6 Dec 2024 | The New York Times
The company, Synagro, sells farmers treated sludge from factories and homes to use as fertilizer. But that fertilizer, also known as biosolids, can contain harmful “forever chemicals” known as PFAS linked to serious health problems including cancer and birth defects.
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Residential Garden Produce Harvested Near a Fluorochemical Manufacturer in North Carolina Can Be An Important Fluoroether Exposure Pathway
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2 Dec 2024 | J. Agric. Food Chem.
Residential garden produce grown near a fluorochemical manufacturing plant in North Carolina was found to contain significant levels of PFAS, predominantly low-molecular-weight PFEAs such as PMPA, PFO2HxA, PFMOAA, and GenX, with water-rich produce showing the highest contamination, posing potential dietary exposure risks for local communities.