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Trump officials want to cut limits of PFAS in drinking water – what will the impact be?
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15 May 2025 | The Guardian
The EPA is attempting actions that violate the law, some say, and Biden administration’s progress can’t be fully undone.
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3M to pay New Jersey up to $450M in landmark ‘forever chemical’ settlement
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14 May 2025 | The Hill
3M will pay the state of New Jersey up to $450 million over the next 25 years, resolving claims regarding widespread contamination from “forever chemicals.”
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[Video] How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet
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14 May 2025 | Veritasium
The biggest chemical cover up in history. PFAS has polluted the entire global water system.
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Texas bill seeking to keep toxic “forever chemicals” off farmland misses key deadline
Policy
14 May 2025
Supporters say the bill would protect farmland in Texas. Opponents say limiting PFAS chemicals in biosolids will force water utilities to look at other disposal methods, which will lead to higher utility bills.
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EPA will weaken rule curbing ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water
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14 May 2025 | The Washington Post
The Environmental Protection Agency said it will reconsider drinking water standards for four chemicals that have been linked to a range of illnesses.
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Uncovering the effects of the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre on per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances distribution in the Tropical Western Pacific
Science
14 May 2025
Scientists warn that the North Pacific’s huge swirling gyre is now amassing large amounts of short‑chain “forever chemicals” such as PFBA—along with residual PFOA—making these substitutes the main pollutants in Tropical Western Pacific surface waters and raising new worries for ocean life and human health.
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Exposure to Legacy Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances from Diet and Drinking Water in California Adults, 2018-2020
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14 May 2025 | Environ Sci Technol
This study characterized legacy PFAS in serum from 700 California adults and examined contributions from diet and drinking water concluding that drinking water remains an important source of exposure to PFOA and PFHxS in this population.
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Hair analysis as a non-invasive method for assessing the exposure of wildlife to per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)
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13 May 2025 | Environ Pollut
By analyzing blood samples from 700 adults in southern and eastern California, scientists found that even low but detectable PFAS in local tap water significantly raised people’s levels of the legacy chemicals PFOA and PFHxS, while seafood and eggs contributed smaller amounts.
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Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) and Vitamin Metabolism: A Nutritional Perspective on an Emerging Environmental Health Issue.
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13 May 2025 | Nutrients
Evidence from human, animal, and cell studies shows that exposure to PFAS is linked to disruptions in the metabolism of vital vitamins—fat‑soluble A, D and E, plus water‑soluble C and several B‑complex vitamins.
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Incidence of respiratory diseases associated with per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in PM2. 5: New evidence from a population-based survey of Pearl River Delta (PRD), China
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12 May 2025 | J. Hazard. Mater.
A large-scale study in China found that exposure to PFAS chemicals in fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) was strongly associated with increased rates of respiratory diseases—such as asthma, cough, and rhinitis—in children and adolescents, highlighting PFAS in air as an underrecognized but serious health risk.
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Atmospheric emission of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from a fluoropolymer manufacturing facility: Focus on emerging PFAS and the potential contribution of condensable PFAS on their atmospheric partitioning
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12 May 2025 | Environ. Sci. Technol.
A major fluoropolymer manufacturing facility in China was found to emit dozens of previously undetected PFAS—including emerging compounds like Cl-PFECAs and multi-head PFESs—into the air and surrounding environment, raising concern about widespread contamination and the need for stronger oversight of industrial PFAS emissions.
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Transformation of polyfluoroalkyl precursors in AFFF-contaminated concrete
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10 May 2025 | Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett.
In AFFF‑soaked airport concrete, high‑pH conditions quickly break down PFAS precursors into mobile pollutants such as PFBA, PFHxA and PFOA, while most sulfonamide precursors stay locked in the slab—showing that runways can keep leaking PFAS long after foam use ends.
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They drove to the Capitol to testify on a bill and got a grueling lesson in Texas democracy
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9 May 2025 | The Texas Tribune
The group from Johnson County waited 18 hours to testify at a hearing that started at 1 a.m. on a bill to limit toxic chemicals in fertilizer.
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Dingell and McDonald Rivet to co-chair congressional PFAS task force
Policy
9 May 2025
Two Michigan Democrats announced they will serve as co-chairs of the Bipartisan Congressional PFAS Task Force, working to stem the spread of so-called “forever chemicals” in communities across the nation.
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PFAS breakthrough: ‘forever chemical’ banned under global treaty
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8 May 2025 | SwissInfo
International negotiations in Geneva have led to a major breakthrough: the addition of a new "forever chemical" to the Stockholm Convention's blacklist. It marks another crucial step in the global effort to regulate what many now call the "poison of the century”.