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Toxic PFAS detected in groundwater around NC landfills
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7 May 2025 | WRAL News
New data from the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality shows PFAS “forever chemicals” are turning up in groundwater around landfills across the state, sometimes at levels thousands of times higher than the federal drinking water limit.
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Diet quality in relation to serum perfluoroalkyl substance concentrations in Canadian preadolescents
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6 May 2025 | Environ Res
In Canadian preadolescents, higher dietary intake of fat, fiber, and iron was associated with increased blood concentrations of several PFAS—especially PFOS, PFDA, and PFHxS—suggesting that most diets may contribute to PFAS exposure through contaminated food systems.
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Oregon Legislature bans firefighting foam containing PFAS
Policy
5 May 2025
The Oregon Legislature has passed a bill aiming to protect the health of the state’s firefighters and the environment.
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Application of a Non-targeted Biomonitoring Method to Characterize Occupational Chemical Exposures of Women Nurses Relative to Office Workers.
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5 May 2025 | Environ Sci Technol
Female nurses had higher blood levels of several potentially hazardous chemicals—compared to office workers—including 6:2 fluorotelomer sulfonic acid, raising concerns about workplace exposure and the need for safer chemical practices in healthcare settings.
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Stantec to design largest PFAS treatment system in Northwestern U.S.
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2 May 2025 | WFM
The City of Vancouver, Washington, has selected Stantec to design a treatment system to remove PFAS from a high-volume water station — with the goal of providing cleaner, more reliable drinking water for the community.
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Chemical makers knew the harms. It didn’t matter.
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2 May 2025 | The Washington Post
In “They Poisoned the World,” investigative journalist Mariah Blake writes about the campaign to hide the dangers of forever chemicals.
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Best practices for experimental design, testing, and reporting of aqueous PFAS-degrading technologies
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1 May 2025 | Environ. Sci. Technol.
To help safely eliminate PFAS from water, this study outlines best practices for designing and reporting PFAS-degrading technologies, emphasizing the need for complete defluorination, consistent fluorine mass balance, and standardized testing to ensure meaningful comparisons and real-world applicability.
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Evaluation of co-foaming agents for enhanced removal of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) by foam fractionation
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28 Apr 2025 | J Hazard Mater
A proof-of-concept study showed that a biodegradable, surfactant derived from shea butter can replace harsher chemicals in foam‑based water treatment and still strip more than 99% of harmful PFAS, including hard‑to‑remove short‑chain PFAS, from contaminated groundwater.
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PFAS levels found to exceed gov't cap in 22 of Japan's 47 prefectures
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26 Apr 2025 | Japan Today
Potentially harmful PFAS chemicals have been detected at high levels in rivers and groundwater across 22 of Japan's 47 prefectures, a government survey conducted in fiscal 2023 showed Friday.
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WA lawmakers want PFAS testing for human waste fertilizer
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23 Apr 2025 | Seattle Times
Washington is one step closer to eliminating a major blind spot for potential contaminants in crops grown across the state using human waste as fertilizer.
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‘Alarming’ increase in levels of forever chemical TFA found in European wines
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23 Apr 2025 | The Guardian
Wines produced after 2010 showed a steep rise in contamination of TFA, analysis finds.
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Evaluating the hypothesis of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) presence in HDPE geomembranes
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22 Apr 2025 | J. Hazard. Mater. Adv.
Ultra-short-chain PFAS (specifically PFPrA) were detected in all tested HDPE geomembranes used for waste containment—potentially leading to elevated PFAS concentrations in landfill leachate.
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Patterns of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substance occurrence in fish in the 2018–2019 US EPA National Rivers and Streams Assessment
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22 Apr 2025 | Sci. Total Environ.
PFAS compounds were detected in over 90% of fish sampled from major U.S. rivers, with the most common being PFOS, PFUnA, PFDA, and PFDoA, and although their concentrations declined between 2013–2019, they remain a concern for fish consumers, especially in communities facing environmental justice issues.
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Fears that UK military bases may be leaking toxic ‘forever chemicals’ into drinking water
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19 Apr 2025 | The Guardian
Bases in Norfolk, Devon and Hampshire face MoD investigation over possible leaching of dangerous PFAS into the environment.
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German insurers encouraged to exclude coverage of PFAS liability
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16 Apr 2025 | Euractiv
The insurance industry group hopes coverage limits “help speed up the development of alternatives” to forever chemicals.