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Report: Texas fracking is exacerbating the PFAS crisis
News
27 Mar 2023 | Grist
A "staggering volume" of PFAS are being injected into fracked wells.
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NFPA responds to lawsuit filed over safety gear health concerns
News
27 Mar 2023 | Western Mass News
The National Fire Protection Association is defending its organization following a lawsuit filed in Massachusetts last week by a firefighter’s union.
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Association between early-childhood exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances and ADHD symptoms: A prospective cohort study
Science
25 Mar 2023 | Sci. Total Environ.
Toddlers exposed to moderate levels of PFAS had a higher likelihood of exhibiting ADHD traits at eight years of age.
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Researchers Develop Method to Permanently Destroy Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Water Supply
News
24 Mar 2023 | EcoWatch
University of British Columbia (UBC) engineers have come up with a new water treatment that safely, efficiently and permanently removes PFAS from drinking water.
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PFAS: forever chemicals—persistent, bioaccumulative and mobile. Reviewing the status and the need for their phase out and remediation of contaminated sites
Science
23 Mar 2023 | ESEU
The authors of this review conclude that substituting individual PFAS recognized as hazardous with other possibly equally hazardous PFAS with virtually unknown chronic toxicity should not be a solution.
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A review of cardiovascular effects and underlying mechanisms of legacy and emerging per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)
Science
22 Mar 2023 | Arch Toxicol
Various emerging alternatives to legacy PFAS also play increasingly prominent toxic roles in heart and circulation health that are milder, similar to, or more severe than legacy PFAS.
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The unheeded inherent connections and overlap between microplastics and poly-and perfluoroalkyl substances: A comprehensive review
Science
22 Mar 2023 | Sci. Total Environ.
The combined toxicity of microplastics and PFAS usually results in greater health harm, with some compounds being recognized as both microplastics and PFAS.
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Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Report
Policy
20 Mar 2023
The NDAA for FY 2021 directs the PFAS ST to identify all currently Federally-funded PFAS research and development; to identify scientific and technological challenges that must be addressed to understand and to significantly reduce the environmental and human health impacts of PFAS.
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Firefighter union sues Mass. group over toxic chemicals in protective gear
News
20 Mar 2023 | wbur
The International Association of Fire Fighters is suing the Massachusetts-based group that sets national standards for firefighters' protective gear.
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EPA to limit toxic ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water
News
20 Mar 2023 | AP
The EPA on Tuesday proposed the first federal limits on harmful “forever chemicals” in drinking water, a long-awaited protection the agency said will save thousands of lives and prevent serious illnesses, including cancer.
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‘Forever Chemicals’ Deserve Far More EPA Scrutiny
News
18 Mar 2023 | Bloomberg
Compounds known as PFAS linger in our water, our soil — even our bodies. And manufacturers don’t have to prove they’re safe.
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How PFAS were cleverly rebranded as ‘forever chemicals’
News
17 Mar 2023 | Fast Company
PFAS have been around for decades, but being branded ‘forever chemicals’ helped make knowledge about them more mainstream.
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How the US will remove ‘forever chemicals’ from its drinking water
News
17 Mar 2023 | Nature
The EPA has proposed a strict PFAS limit, but it will take money and innovative technologies to implement the plan.
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New PFAS guidelines – a water quality scientist explains technology and investment needed to get forever chemicals out of US drinking water
News
16 Mar 2023 | The Conversation
Dr. Joe Charnonnet explains what the proposed guidelines would require, how water utilities could meet these requirements and how much it might cost to get these so-called forever chemicals out of U.S. drinking water.
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Pentagon to halt use of firefighting foam that contains PFAS as cleanup costs mount
Policy
16 Mar 2023
Battered by years of criticism from U.S. lawmakers and environmental advocates, the Department of Defense will stop purchasing PFAS-containing firefighting foam later this year and phase it out entirely in 2024.