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Report outlines health effects of PFAS chemicals in children, provides recommendations for testing
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13 Sep 2022 | AAP News
New clinical recommendations on PFAS from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) call for testing children who may have high exposure to the chemicals and providing families with strategies to reduce exposure.
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As concerns about PFAS rise, doctors scramble to learn about the toxic chemicals
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12 Sep 2022 | WBUR
A major report from the National Academies recommended that individuals with significant exposure to toxic chemicals, known as PFAS, get a blood test and ongoing medical monitoring.
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Chemours expansion plans infuriate environmentalists
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12 Sep 2022 | City View
North Carolina environmental groups are outraged over the Chemours chemical corporation’s plans to expand its Fayetteville Works plant in Bladen County.
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PFAS concentrations and deposition in precipitation: An intensive 5-month study at National Atmospheric Deposition Program–National trends sites (NADP-NTN) across Wisconsin, USA
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10 Sep 2022 | Atmos. Environ.
PFCAs were detected in 83% of rainwater samples, and differences in sites’ chemical profiles suggest that local PFAS sources can influence the PFAS collected in rain.
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An End of PFAS? Not Quite Yet
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8 Sep 2022 | Sierra Club
But in a world where we are all too eager to share some “good news” about the PFAS crisis, stories generally overstated the careful explanations of the lead researchers themselves, and may have confused the general public.
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Senate unanimously approves Peters’ legislation on PFAS at airports
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8 Sep 2022 | Radio Results Network
U.S. Senator Gary Peters (MI) today announced bipartisan legislation he authored to reduce the spread of toxic PFAS contamination at commercial airports has passed the U.S. Senate unanimously.
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Feeding and contaminant patterns of sub-arctic and arctic ringed seals: Potential insight into climate change-contaminant interactions
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6 Sep 2022 | Environ. Pollut.
This paper demonstrates an important intersection between climate & toxics: that as climate change drives seals to consume different foods, their consumption of newer contaminants like PFAS may increase.
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‘Allow us the right to know what the risks are’: Nonprofits continue legal battle against EPA to test PFAS for health effects
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6 Sep 2022 | Port City Daily
Local and national nonprofits continue to fight for the Cape Fear region impacted by contaminated drinking water.
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Distribution of Per-and Poly-fluoroalkyl Substances and Their Precursors in Human Blood
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5 Sep 2022 | J. Hazard. Mater.
This study reports for the first time the partitioning of N-MeFOSA and N-EtFOSA in human blood.
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EPA finally moves to label some ‘forever chemicals’ as hazardous
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29 Aug 2022 | The Washington Post
The long-awaited move from the Environmental Protection Agency is meant to spark the cleanup of scores of sites defiled by industrial compounds and make the public more aware of their presence.
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Polluters could pay billions in fines for PFAS cleanup under new Biden plan
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29 Aug 2022 | The Guardian
The Biden administration on Friday announced a new proposal that could force polluters of two common PFAS compounds to pay billions of dollars for the toxic substances’ cleanup.
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EPA Proposes Designating Certain PFAS Chemicals as Hazardous Substances Under Superfund to Protect People’s Health
Policy
26 Aug 2022
The proposal applies to PFOA and PFOS, including their salts and structural isomers, and is based on significant evidence that they may present a substantial danger to human health or welfare or the environment.
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EPA to designate ‘forever chemicals’ as hazardous substances
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26 Aug 2022 | AP News
The Environmental Protection Agency moved Friday to designate two “forever chemicals” used in cookware, carpets and firefighting foams as hazardous substances, a step that would clear the way for quicker cleanup of the toxic compounds, which have been linked to cancer and other health problems.
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You probably have “forever chemicals” in your body. Here’s what that means.
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25 Aug 2022 | Vox
A chemist explains how PFAS can harm us — and what to do about them.
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‘Forever chemicals’: What are PFAS and can we solve this persistent pollution problem?
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19 Aug 2022 | Euronews
We need to turn off the tap on PFAS pollution, and to do that we need to stop all unnecessary use of PFAS as soon as possible.