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Couple believe son’s death, their health issues result of high PFAS in drinking water
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2 Apr 2019 | MLive
After more than a decade of drinking water that recently was determined to have high levels of PFAS and related compounds, Steven and Patsy Lamb believe the ‘forever chemicals’ were behind the untimely death of their son and their own health problems…
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New Jersey is making companies pay for toxic contamination — Shining a new light on a little-known offender
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2 Apr 2019 | The Intercept
New Jersey laid financial responsibility for dealing with PFAS contamination squarely at the feet of the chemical companies responsible for it. The state’s Department of Environmental Protection issued a directive on Monday ordering five companies to pay the costs of dealing with the toxic chemicals that have been associated with numerous health…
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DuPont and Chemours sued by New Jersey over pollution in Pompton Lakes and other sites
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2 Apr 2019 | North Jersey Record
New Jersey sued chemical giant DuPont on Wednesday seeking financial damages for widespread pollution that contaminated air, soil and water at four sites across the state and endangered the health of thousands, including residents of a Pompton Lakes neighborhood who have had to endure cancer-causing…
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U.S. Congress: H.R. 1863, the "Testing for Impacted Firefighters"
Policy
25 Mar 2019
Rep. Norcross, Donald (D-NJ) introduced a bill that would require the Secretary of Defense to provide blood testing for firefighters of the Department of Defense to determine exposure patterns to PFAS.
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Linking pollution and infectious disease
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18 Mar 2019 | Chemical & Engineering News
Read the full article by Britt E. Erickson “Thousands of seals died along the coasts of the heavily polluted Baltic Sea in the late 1980s. Scientists traced the deaths to a virus similar to the one that causes distemper in dogs. Last year, the same virus struck hundreds of seals in Maine. In both instances,…
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Pentagon pushes for weaker standards on chemicals contaminating drinking water
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15 Mar 2019 | New York Times
Facing billions of dollars in cleanup costs, the Pentagon is pushing the Trump administration to adopt a weaker standard for groundwater pollution caused by chemicals that have commonly been used at military bases and that contaminate drinking water consumed by millions of Americans. The Pentagon’s…
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Occurrence of perfluorinated compounds in agricultural environment, vegetables, and fruits in regions influenced by a fluorine-chemical industrial park in China
Science
15 Mar 2019 | Chemosphere
The occurrence of perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) in vegetables and fruits, as well as agricultural environment, was investigated in the downstream regions of Changshu fluorine-chemical industrial park (CFCIP) in China.
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U.S. Congress: H.R. 1567, the "Prompt and Fast Action to Stop Damages Act of 2019
Policy
6 Mar 2019
Rep. Lujan, Ben Ray (D-NM) introduced this bill would authorize the Department of Defense to provide clean uncontaminated water for agricultural purposes to areas affected by PFOS and PFOA contamination from military installations.
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New Hampshire proposed MCLs and AGQS for a number of PFAS
Policy
2 Jan 2019
New Hampshire proposed Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCLs) and Ambient Groundwater Quality Standards (AGQS): PFOA (38 ppt), PFOS (70 ppt), PFOA & PFOS (combined: 70 ppt), PFHxS (85 ppt), PFNA (23 ppt).
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Adverse Maternal, Fetal, and Postnatal Effects of Hexafluoropropylene Oxide Dimer Acid (GenX) from Oral Gestational Exposure in Sprague-Dawley Rats
Science
4 Nov 2018 | Environ. Health Perspect.
GenX exposure produced multiple effects that were similar to prior toxicity evaluations on PFAS inSprague-Dawley Rats.
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Airway exposure to perfluorooctanoate exacerbates airway hyperresponsiveness and downregulates glucocorticoid receptor expression in asthmatic mice.
Science
16 Mar 1921 | Transl Pediatr
Acute airway exposure to PFOA was found to decrease the effectiveness of asthma treatments.
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Emerging Chlorinated Polyfluorinated Polyether Compounds Impacting the Waters of Southwestern New Jersey Identified by Use of Nontargeted Analysis
Science
16 Feb 1921 | Environ Sci Technol Lett
Non-targeted analysis was used to estimate the effectiveness of point-of-entry water treatment systems for the removal of the emerging species and reduced the abundance of PFAS by >90%.