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‘Dark Waters’ just the tip of the iceberg
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22 Nov 2019 | The Boston Globe
What happened to Parkersburg is a tragedy — tens of thousands of people were poisoned by a cancer-causing chemical called PFOA. What’s more tragic is that Parkersburg is far from alone.
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[Audio] PFAS chemicals, and you
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1 Nov 2019 | Science Friday
Science Friday: Conversation with Robert Bilott and Sharon Lerner
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PFAS exposure may increase risk of breast cancer
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24 Oct 2019 | EWG News
To reduce the risk of breast cancer and other health impacts from PFAS, Congress should include in the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2020 provisions that would quickly phase out the use of PFAS in military firefighting foam, reduce industrial discharges of PFAS, require reporting and monitoring for PFAS in ground and surface water, and jump-start the cleanup process under Superfund.
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Shapiro: ‘Legal action’ coming for companies tied to PFAS drinking water contamination
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23 Oct 2019 | The Intelligencer
Attorney General Josh Shapiro says his office will file legal action in the coming months against companies that made firefighting foams. Chemicals found in the foams have contaminated Bucks and Montgomery County communities.
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Michigan hires private lawyers also pushing opioid cases for PFAS lawsuit
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23 Oct 2019 | Legal Newsline
Fields PLLC of Washington, D.C. will head Michigan’s PFAS case. Previously, Richard Fields found major success in asbestos and breast implant litigation by taking on the insurance companies that issued policies to the corporate defendants.
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Lawsuit wants tough PFAS drinking water standards in NH scrapped
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18 Oct 2019 | Associated Press
Lawyers for 3M, a farmer and several others urged a judge to scrap drinking water standards in the state that go far beyond federal limits for toxic chemicals.
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Federal judge’s ruling allows class action suit against PFAS makers to proceed
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3 Oct 2019 | EWG Press Release
This class action includes every U.S. resident with detectable levels of PFAS chemicals in their blood and who have claimed they have been injured as a result of being exposed.
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3M suit aims to block tougher PFAS standards for water in NH
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1 Oct 2019 | GateHouse Media
Chemical company 3M – along with the Plymouth Water & Sewer District, a Center Harbor farmer and a second company – filed a lawsuit against the state Department of Environmental Services seeking to block the implementation of new standards for a series of PFAS chemicals.
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EPA: 3M discharged chemicals without required permit, took years to disclose reporting errors
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26 Sep 2019 | WHNT News 19
A U.S. EPA inspection report found high levels of perfluorinated chemicals from discharge sites, noted 3M lacks a state discharge permit for a chemical that it's already been discharging and pointed out 3M waited three years to inform regulators about hundreds of instances of incorrect discharge information it had filed.
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3M to halt production of undisclosed chemicals at Decatur plant
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19 Sep 2019 | to WHNT News 19
3M indicated in a statement to to WHNT News 19: "we have elected to temporarily idle certain manufacturing processes. We will resume these processes as soon as practicable.”
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EPA allowed companies to make 40 new PFAS chemicals despite serious risks
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19 Sep 2019 | The Intercept
Despite their dangers, at least 15 of these 40 PFAS compounds that were the subject of substantial risk reports are not only on the most recent list of compounds in active use but also are produced in very large quantities.
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EWG Investigates – The science on PFAS: Rebuttal to 3M’s claims
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12 Sep 2019 | EWG
EWG’s Science Investigations Team's response to 3M downplaying the risks of PFAS.
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Companies deny responsibility for toxic ‘forever chemicals’ contamination
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11 Sep 2019 | The Guardian
The 3M Company, the Chemours Company and DuPont appeared before lawmakers over PFAS. Denise Rutherford, senior vice-president of corporate affairs for 3M, argued the chemicals pose no human health threats at current levels and have no victims, conflicting with a large body of research and 3M’s own internal documents.
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Denmark just became the first country to ban PFAS 'forever chemicals' from food packaging
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4 Sep 2019 | CNN
Under Denmark's new regulation food packaging, for example, baking paper, and microwave popcorn bags will be required to be manufactured without any PFAS.
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Documents show 3M knew of dangers of PFAS chemicals, activist group says
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28 Aug 2019 | Star Tribune
The Environmental Working Group released 20 3M documents as part of a timeline that demonstrate that the company knew for decades about and hid the dangers of PFAS... The earliest document dates to 1950.