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EPA finalizes PFOA imports rule
News
24 Jun 2020 | Politico
The rule, issued under the Toxic Substances Control Act, is largely aimed at closing loopholes rather than enacting major new changes.
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EPA issues final rule giving it authority over manufacturing, sale of products containing PFAS
News
22 Jun 2020 | Construction & Demolition Recycling
This action means that the EPA is prohibiting companies from manufacturing, processing or importing products containing certain long-chain PFAS without prior EPA review and approval.
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DOD must do more to address PFAS pollution
News
19 Jun 2020 | Bloomberg Law
Military service members and their families are especially at risk from forever chemicals because of the DOD’s 50-year use of fire-fighting foam made with PFAS.
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New PFAS chemical contamination discovered in New Jersey
Policy
10 Jun 2020
Government scientists suspected that the factory was releasing a dangerous PFAS chemical, and they had good reason to think so.
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Wisconsin leads 22-state coalition on PFAS
News
10 Jun 2020 | Urban Milwaukee
States are urging the agency to regulate more PFAS substances and consider regulating PFAS as a class of chemicals.
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Foam Transition: Is it as simple as "foam out/foam in"?
News
5 Jun 2020 | The Catalyst
As an increasing number of drinking water supplies are discovered to be impacted with PFASs above levels deemed to be safe, numerous impacted communities are instigating litigation against end users and manufacturers of aqueous film forming foams and fluoroprotein foams.
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New Jersey announces stringent MCLs for PFOA and PFOS
Policy
2 Jun 2020
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection today officially published its adoption of stringent, health-based drinking water standards for PFOA and PFOS.
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Estimating Environmental Hazard and Risks from Exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS): Outcome of a SETAC Focused Topic Meeting
Science
2 Jun 2020 | Environ. Toxicol. Chem.
A SETAC Focus Topic Meeting and workshop entitled Environmental Risk Assessment of PFAS convened 12-15 August 2019 in Durham, North Carolina, and brought together experts from around the globe to highlight recent advances in research pertinent to evaluating environmental and human health risks from exposures of PFAS.
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The Effects of Soil Organic Carbon Content on Plant Uptake of Soil PFAAs and its Potential Regulatory Implications
Science
2 Jun 2020 | Environ. Toxicol. Chem.
Modeling shows that the bioconcentration of PFAS in crops surpasses USEPA PFAS reference limits, indicating potential health harm.
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EPA failed to monitor GenX chemical for eight years
News
28 May 2020 | The Fayetteville Observer
The EPA’s regional office wasn’t told it was supposed to inspect the Chemours Fayetteville Works plant until the StarNews in Wilmington reported there was GenX in the Cape Fear River.
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Controversy over incinerator-linked PFAS in New York draws scrutiny from federal lawmakers
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14 May 2020 | Waste Dive
Norlite’s Cohoes incinerator, one of nine facilities nationwide approved to burn PFAS-laden firefighting foam, has stated it is not currently accepting the foam pending EPA research.
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EPA devotes team to understanding PFAS
News
14 May 2020 | Waste Today
The PFAS Innovative Treatment Team will concentrate its efforts on how to remove, destroy and test PFAS-contaminated media and waste.
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EPA is abandoning those suffering from toxic PFAS pollution
News
26 Apr 2020 | The Hill
A year ago, the EPA promised Congress that, after years of stalling, it would finally move forward on regulation of two notorious ‘forever chemicals,’ PFOA and PFOS. The notice that eventually appeared in the Federal Register on March 10, 2020, however, is not a regulation; it is merely a proposal to consider regulation.
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Companies making, using some PFAS form two advocacy groups
News
22 Apr 2020 | Bloomberg Environment
The American Chemistry Council’s FluoroCouncil has become two organizations: the Performance Fluoropolymer Partnership and the Alliance for Telomer Chemistry Stewardship, the council announced Tuesday.
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White House moves to weaken EPA rule on toxic compounds
Policy
21 Apr 2020
The Trump White House has intervened to weaken one of the few public health protections pursued by its own administration, a rule to limit the use of a toxic industrial compound in consumer products, according to communications between the White House and Environmental Protection Agency.