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Exposed to Contaminated Water at Pease? Health Officials Urge Signing Up for Health Study
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16 Nov 2021 | Portsmouth Herald
The information from the Pease Study will be compiled with results from seven different sites across the U.S. where people were exposed to drinking water contaminated by PFAS.
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2 Charlotte Sites Part of Latest Fight to Force Companies to Clean up PFAS
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4 Nov 2021 | WFAE
North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein has filed lawsuits against 14 manufacturers of a common fire suppressant containing PFAS used by firefighters.
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Revealed: More Than 120,000 US Sites Feared To Handle Harmful PFAS ‘Forever’ Chemicals
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17 Oct 2021 | The Guardian
List of facilities makes it clear that virtually no part of the US appears free from the potential risk of air and water contamination with the chemicals.
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Concentration profiles of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in major sources to the environment
Science
12 Oct 2021 | J. Environ. Manage.
Precursor biotransformation products are detected in landfill leachates and wastewater-related sources.
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Records Released in FOIA Response Reveal Regulators’ Effort To Justify Slow Disclosure of PFAS Contamination
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10 Oct 2021 | Record Eagle
The 160-document request details justifications for the delay, as well as talking points, protective memos and selective redactions.
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Thousands of Farms Warned About Toxic PFAS From Military Bases; No Fix In Sight
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20 Sep 2021 | 7News
Public information requests reveal contact information for more than 50,000 farmers was handed over to the Department of Defense so the military could make notifications about an invisible enemy that could threaten their livelihoods.
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Keating: Air Force Agrees to Pay For PFAS Cleanups in Mashpee and Falmouth Wells
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17 Sep 2021 | Cape Cod Times
Voters authorized $8.4 million to design, manufacture and install PFAS filters.
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GAC Treatment Preferred Method for Van Etten Lake Cleanup
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14 Sep 2021 | Iosco County-Herald
The remedial action alternatives that have been proposed are pump-and-treat by granular activated carbon, pump-and-treat by ion exchange or no action.
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State Health Department Shrinks ‘Do Not Eat ‘ Area for Deer Near PFAS Contaminated Site
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3 Sep 2021 | Michigan Radio
The health department had been telling people not to eat deer found within a five-mile radius of Clark’s Marsh in Oscoda Township, next to the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base.
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‘Forever Chemicals’ From a Military Installation at Mitchell Airport Are a Risk to Nearby Drinking Wells, Lake Michigan, a Reports Says
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1 Sep 2021 | Stevens Point Journal
Despite testing that found ‘forever chemicals’ at Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport two years ago, the Department of Defense has yet to move forward with a plan to address the contamination, putting nearby residents with private drinking wells at risk
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Report Urges ‘Swift Cleanup’ of PFAS in Dultuth, Other Great Lakes Sites
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31 Aug 2021 | Star Tribune
A national environmental group is urging ‘swift PFAS cleanup’ at six Great Lakes military installations contaminated by the toxic chemicals, including the Duluth Air National Guard base where the chemicals were used in firefighting foam.
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Forever Chemicals’ From Navy Lab Flowing Into the Chesapeake Bay
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30 Aug 2021 | The Southern Maryland Chronicle
On the base, the Navy reported that shallow monitoring wells in the fire suppression testing area detected up to a 175,000 ppt combination of PFOS, PFOA and one other compound.
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Environmental Group Issues Report ‘Setting the Record Straight’ about PFAS Contamination
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24 Aug 2021 | Michigan Radio NPR
A new report compiled by a local group, Need Our Water (NOW) and the National Wildlife Federation, today issued a timeline critical of the actions of both the local Air Force and the state.
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US House passes Dingell bill regulating ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water
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21 Jul 2021 | Michigan Advance
The legislation would direct EPA to start the regulatory process for regulating PFAS, in drinking water and making the decision on whether to set drinking water standards for certain types of PFAS or to regulate the entire class,.
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[Press Release] Detection of toxic PFAS chemicals increases to 2,790 communities
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20 Jul 2021
The latest detections are based on new testing completed in Alabama, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, South Carolina and Vermont.