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Firefighters and supporters are pushing hard for PFAS-free turnout gear
News
15 Sep 2022 | NC Health News
Firefighting is an occupation that comes with inherent risks. For instance, the rate at which firefighters develop cancer outpaces the general population by 9 percent.
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California PFAS Bills Set To Have Business Impacts
Policy
13 Sep 2022
This week, California’s Governor Newsom is expected to sign into law three major California PFAS bills, each of which will have significant impacts on businesses nationally and globally.
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Congress should finish the job and protect us from PFAS in food packaging
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13 Sep 2022 | Toxic-Free Future
When Congress returns to DC next week for just a few weeks of legislative activity, they have unfinished business: getting toxic PFAS banned in food packaging materials.
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'Forever chemicals' are everywhere. The battle over who pays to clean them up is just getting started
Policy
13 Sep 2022
State and local governments across the country are suing manufacturers of toxic chemicals that are contaminating much of the nation’s drinking water, aiming to shield water customers and taxpayers from the massive cost of cleaning them up.
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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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Childhood exposure to per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances and neurodevelopment in the CHARGE case-control study
Science
12 Sep 2022 | Environ Res
Childhood PFOA, PFHpA, and a PFAS mixture were associated with increased odds of autism spectrum disorder.
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As concerns about PFAS rise, doctors scramble to learn about the toxic chemicals
News
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
Science
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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These ‘forever chemicals’ are in your body. Here’s what you need to know about them
News
10 Sep 2022 | Deseret News
New research shows that a category of toxic substances, often known as “forever chemicals,” has a big impact on the liver.
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An End of PFAS? Not Quite Yet
News
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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Associations of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances with gestational hypertension and blood pressure during pregnancy: A cohort study
Science
8 Sep 2022 | Environ Res
Higher concentrations of PFAS during early pregnancy were associated with lower gestational hypertension risk and reduced blood pressure measures in the third trimester in a population with relatively high exposure levels.
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Feeding and contaminant patterns of sub-arctic and arctic ringed seals: Potential insight into climate change-contaminant interactions
Science
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
News
6 Sep 2022 | Port City Daily
Local and national nonprofits continue to fight for the Cape Fear region impacted by contaminated drinking water.