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[Book Chapter] Fluorine Free Foams
Science
29 Jun 2021 | CRC Press
The objectives are to assist with transitioning to F3 foams by providing a summary of the properties and extinguishment accreditations achieved by multiple F3 foams and outline pragmatic approaches to adopting safer fire extinguishment systems based on F3 foams.
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Cost of tackling PFAS pollution on US military bases expected to reach $2.1bn
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28 Jun 2021 | Chemistry World
The Pentagon has identified 687 military installations that have known or suspected contamination by these fluorinated chemicals.
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Watchdog calls on Pentagon to detail ‘forever chemicals’ cleanup expenses
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23 Jun 2021 | The Hill
The Pentagon has been working to address PFAS contamination in drinking water on its bases and has estimated that it would cost more than $2.1 billion beginning in fiscal 2021 to clean up.
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Maine lawmakers enact series of bills to tackle pollution from ‘forever chemicals’
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23 Jun 2021 | Press Herald
One of the bills signed into law this week by Gov. Janet Mills gives Maine one of the nation's strictest standards for PFAS in drinking water.
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[Press Release] PFAS Action Act clears House energy committee
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16 Jun 2021 | EWG
The legislation would create a national drinking water standard for select PFAS chemicals, designate PFAS as hazardous substances, limit industrial discharges and provide $200 million annually to assist water utilities and wastewater treatment facilities.
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Officials push for national PFAS drinking water standard
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9 Jun 2021 | AP News
Setting a national drinking water standard will be important in addressing contamination at military bases and communities throughout the U.S.
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NMED investigates size of PFAS plumes
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7 Jun 2021 | NM Political Report
The investigation will look into where public and private water sources could be contaminated and how wildlife may be impacted by the chemicals in Curry and Roosevelt counties, New Mexico.
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Firefighters denied coverage by veterans affairs after exposure to PFAS firefighting foam
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5 Jun 2021 | The Intercept
The VA and insurers have rejected claims from firefighters despite evidence linking PFAS foam and disease.
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Unsaturated PFOS and Other PFASs in Human Serum and Drinking Water from an AFFF-Impacted Community.
Science
31 May 2021 | Environ Sci Technol
PFAS exposure levels decreased over time for all PFAS except PFPeS.
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Avoid surface water foam while recreating outdoors, health officials warn
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28 May 2021 | MLive
The “avoid foam” warnings in Michigan have been posted in communities with known PFAS contamination, such as near the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Oscoda, Lake Margrethe near Camp Grayling, the Rogue River near the former Wolverine World Wide tannery in Rockford, the Thornapple River downstream of Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids, and the Huron River from Oakland County to Lake Erie.
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PFAS blood tests in Newburgh show high levels of five chemicals
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28 May 2021 | Times Herald-Record
Participants were randomly selected from households that until 2016 received drinking water suspected to have been contaminated with firefighting foam used at the New York Stewart Air National Guard base.
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Source allocation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) with supervised machine learning: Classification performance and the role of feature selection in an expanded dataset
Science
24 May 2021 | Chemosphere
Supervised machine learning based on composition can identify patterns that can be used to distinguish PFAS sources.
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FluoroMatch 2.0-making automated and comprehensive non-targeted PFAS annotation a reality
Science
24 May 2021 | Anal Bioanal Chem
Using the newly developed FluoroMatch Flow 2 software, 1,000 individual PFAS were found in firefighting foam, including previously undescribed compounds.
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Distribution, behaviour, bioavailability and remediation of poly- and per-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in solid biowastes and biowaste-treated soil
Science
18 May 2021 | Environ Int
In this review, the distribution, bioavailability, and remediation of PFAS in soil receiving solid biowastes, which include biosolids, composts, and manure, are presented.
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The Case for Direct Measures of Soil-to-Groundwater Contaminant Mass Discharge at AFFF-Impacted Sites
Science
4 May 2021 | Environ Sci Technol
This perspective provides a rationale for why alternative approaches are critically necessary and proposes a practical solution to accurately assess PFAS transport within unsaturated vadose zone soils.