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$4 billon settlement to protect Chemours, DuPont, Corteva against legacy PFAS liabilities
Policy
13 Feb 2021
DuPont, Chemours and Corteva reached the agreement in 2020 and made the announcement three weeks into the new year. It attempts to protect all three against “potential legacy PFAS liabilities,” a joint statement from the three CEOs says.
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EPA PFAS Regulations: “PFAS A Priority” Says Incoming Administrator
Policy
9 Feb 2021
While Mr. Regan was questioned on many topics during his hearing, his statements supported two key points that we have been predicting for several months: (1) that Biden’s EPA will place top priority on PFAS and (2) that the EPA’s PFAS regulations under the Safe Drinking Water Act are coming – soon.
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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in surface water, gas and particle in open ocean and coastal environment
Science
9 Feb 2021 | Chemosphere
Regional comparison of air/water properties of PFAS in the oceanic environment indicated potential partitioning of ionic PFAS between surface seawater and oceanic air.
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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in serum and associations with food consumption and use of personal care products in the Norwegian biomonitoring study from the EU project EuroMix
Science
9 Feb 2021 | Environ Res
The participants in the EuroMix study were exposed to PFASs through their diet and personal care product use.
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Sorbent assisted immobilisation of perfluoroalkyl acids in soils - effect on leaching and bioavailability
Science
9 Feb 2021 | J Hazard Mater
A preliminary assessment of the long-term stability of the treatment, assessed after a three-year curing period, suggested that the sorbent continued to be effective in reducing PFAS in leachates, thus showing the potential of this sorbent to hinder further environmental contamination.
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States Clash With Pentagon on PFAS Water Limits, Polluted Sites
News
8 Feb 2021 | Bloomberg Law
Six states with drinking water standards for so-called “forever chemicals” are now wrestling with what those limits mean when water contamination from Department of Defense sites seep into their communities.
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Source, transportation, bioaccumulation, distribution and food risk assessment of perfluorinated alkyl substances in vegetables: A review
Science
3 Feb 2021 | Food Chemistry
A comprehensive review focusing on PFAS pollution from sources to vegetables.
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Target and Nontarget Analysis of Per- and Polyfluoralkyl Substances in Wastewater from Electronics Fabrication Facilities
Science
3 Feb 2021 | Environ Sci Technol .
12 different PFAS and 15 homologous series of nontarget PFAS were detected in the wastewater from an electronics plant.
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A Synthetic Biology Approach Using Engineered Bacteria to Detect Perfluoroalkyl Substance (PFAS) Contamination in Water
Science
3 Feb 2021 | Mil Med
The U.S. Air Force Academy genetically engineered a bacteria that when in contact with PFAS produces a protein that glows red, designating the presence of PFAS.
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Priority perfluoroalkyl substances in surface waters - A snapshot survey from 22 developing countries
Science
2 Feb 2021 | Chemosphere
Baseline PFAS contamination water levels were developed for 22 developing countries worldwide.
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Significance of Perfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Food Packaging
Science
2 Feb 2021 | Integr Environ Assess Manag
Researchers determined the limit of performance for PFCAs on the surface of recycled paper packaging materials.
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Aquatic toxicity evaluations of PFOS and PFOA for five standard marine endpoints
Science
2 Feb 2021 | Chemosphere
In addition to providing effects data for PFOA and PFOS, this study indicates these species and endpoints are sensitive to PFAS such that their use will be appropriate for deriving toxicity data with other PFAS in marine ecosystems.
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Response to “Comment on Scientific Basis for Managing PFAS as a Chemical Class
Science
1 Feb 2021 | Environ. Sci. Technol
Here we are responding to the comment by Singh and Papanastasiou who disagree with a class-based approach to PFAS and build their argument around hydrochlorofluorocarbons.
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Comparison of currently available PFAS remediation technologies in water: A review
Science
28 Jan 2021 | J Environ Manage
In this review, extra consideration is given to novel advanced techniques for PFAS including short chain PFAS removal, and compare their efficiencies, effectiveness, energy use, sustainability, cost, and simplicity in laboratory scale to field applications.
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Biden administration looks set to target ‘forever chemicals,’ as 3M warns about ‘onerous regulation’
News
26 Jan 2021 | Market Watch
President Joe Biden’s administration looks poised to crack down on a group of “forever chemicals” that have been linked to a range of health problems, a move that could put companies like 3M and DuPont on the hook for billions of dollars in cleanup costs.