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Wilmington City Council rejects Chemours expansion amid PFAS fears
Policy
6 Nov 2025
The Wilmington City Council voted unanimously Wednesday against Chemours’ plans to expand production at its Fayetteville Works plant. On the same site, the company polluted the Cape Fear River for decades with PFAS chemicals.
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How to wash your fancy rain jacket
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5 Nov 2025 | Escape Collective
This guide pulls together what to do with your apparel and why, with insight from care specialists and apparel makers.
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Potential health risks from contaminated fish in Lake Victoria: A 25-year systematic review of pollutants and management challenges
Science
5 Nov 2025 | Sci Total Environ
The only reported PFAS levels in fish in Lake Victoria are from the northern part of the lake in Uganda, with measured levels below European safety thresholds. Lack of data from Kenyan or Tanzanian waters, indicates a geographic research gap.
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PFAS detected in Berlin’s water
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4 Nov 2025 | The Berliner
Four out of five water samples in Berlin contain harmful 'forever chemicals' that exceed safety limits and pose serious health risks.
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F-53B exposure induced testicular premature aging through ZBP1-mediated programmed necrosis
Science
4 Nov 2025 | J Hazard Mater
F-53B, a PFAS replacement for PFOS used in chrome plating, was found to cause severe reproductive toxicity, resulting in premature testicular aging in mice.
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Concentrations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in Canadian sea otters (Enhydra lutris) are higher near urban centers
Science
4 Nov 2025 | Environ Toxicol Chem
PFAS were detected in all sampled British Columbia sea otters, with liver concentrations over 25 times higher than in muscle tissue and dominated by PFNA, PFOSA, and PFOS.
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Turkey Warning Issued for Thousands of People Ahead of Thanksgiving
Policy
3 Nov 2025
Hunters across central Maine are being warned not to consume any wild turkey shot in certain townships, as the game could be contaminated by "forever chemicals," officials from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife warned.
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A dangerous chemical may be in your tap water — But the Trump admin doesn’t want you to know that
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3 Nov 2025 | The Huffington Post
The Trump administration is delaying the publication of a report about a harmful “forever chemical” known as perfluorononanoic acid, or PFNA, discovered in 28 states’ tap water.
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Childhood exposure to per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances during eating activities: Occurrence, exposure, and developmental risk
Science
3 Nov 2025 | J. Environ. Chem. Ecotoxicol.
Children’s feeding bibs and tablecloths were found to contain multiple PFAS, including PFOA, PFNA, and PFOS. Modeled hand-to-mouth exposure during meals was estimated to approach or exceed safety thresholds for infants that potentially disrupt hormone and developmental pathways.
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Firms ordered to reduce forever chemicals in drinking water sources for 6 million people
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2 Nov 2025 | BBC
The BBC assessed more than 2,000 individual test results from 2024, obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests, to identify which specific PFAS compounds were being found when levels breached the limits. This showed that both PFOS and PFOA were found in more than 350 of the drinking water tests.
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NJ Residents to Receive $4.9 Million Settlement for PFAS Contamination in Drinking Water
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31 Oct 2025 | Inside Climate News
The case could become a template for other communities whose water has been contaminated with the chemicals.
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Where does a western chemical plant that contaminated drinking water go next? To India
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31 Oct 2025 | The Guardian
Miteni factory closed after water pollution scandal but machinery and patents were bought and rebuilt by Indian company.
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Farmer sees hope in breakthrough cholesterol drug for PFAS treatment
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30 Oct 2025 | NEWS CENTER Maine
Doctors are studying the use of an older cholesterol drug to reduce PFAS more quickly from the body.
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Associations between PFAS in public water system drinking water and serum among Southern California adults
Science
30 Oct 2025 | J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol
PFAS contamination in drinking water may be a significant contributor to adult serum PFAS levels, even among communities without high level contamination from industrial manufacturing.
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French Food Safety Agency Proposes PFAS Monitoring Scheme
News
27 Oct 2025 | Food Safety Magazine
The French National Agency for Food, Environmental, and Occupational Health and Safety has proposed an expanded monitoring scheme for PFAS based on a first-of-its-kind inventory of PFAS contamination and toxicity, comprising more than 247 “forever chemicals.”