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PFAS in Delaware River fish are rising faster than the water can dilute them
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13 Jun 2026 | Yahoo!News
The report is one part of a three-part effort based on more than 20 years of PFAS research in the basin, which supplies drinking water to more than 14 million people in Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York.
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Mass. bills would ban PFAS in food packaging, kid's toys and more
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5 Jun 2026 | WBUR
Both bills would also require the Department of Public Health to investigate whether to restrict PFAS in additional products.
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States grapple with billions in PFAS costs and ask EPA for assistance
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29 May 2026 | Waste Drive
Katrina Kessler, a commissioner with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, said the federal government may need to consider a fee system or other revenue-generating authority from upstream producers of PFAS chemicals in order to ensure the cost doesn’t fall entirely on taxpayers.
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Connecticut posts PFAS Reporting Form for manufacturers; will post fillable version in Early June
Policy
28 May 2026
For each product category, the form requires the amount in grams of each PFAS or subgroup; the range by percent weight in the product category; the component, if applicable; and the total fluorine in parts per million, if applicable.
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Forever chemicals are in more than half of America's tap water. Here’s how to reduce your exposure
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27 May 2026 | New York Times
And the EPA has not set a health-based reference concentration for the majority of the 29 PFAS, which means there’s no federal standard for assessing how much of a risk they present.
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The cost of “forever”: Economic implications of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) mitigation in drinking water and their impact on water affordability
Science
27 May 2026 | ACS ES&T Water
PFAS mitigation models in California suggest household water bills could rise by about $58 per month under the strictest scenario, with the greatest affordability burden falling on groundwater-dependent and lower-income communities, where water costs may exceed the 2.5% income threshold.
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PFAS: NGOs sue French state over failure to tackle 'forever chemicals'
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26 May 2026 | Le Monde
All plaintiffs are asking the court to order the government to stop PFAS discharges into the environment and to remedy the "ecological harm" caused by its "culpable inaction."
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Wisconsin PFAS limits may face legal challenge after EPA’s proposed rollback
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21 May 2026 | Wisconsin Public Radio
Dave Strifling, director of Marquette Law School’s Water Law & Policy Initiative, told WPR’s “Wisconsin Today” that state and federal law dictates Wisconsin’s rules may be no less stringent than federal requirements under the Safe Drinking Water Act.
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US officially moves to dismantle drinking water PFAS regulations
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21 May 2026 | Chemistry World
‘We are fixing that error with standards water systems can actually implement and that will hold up to scrutiny, while addressing PFOA and PFOS, two of the best-studied PFAS with well-documented health impacts,’ EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin stated.
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EPA Proposes to Extend Deadlines and Revise Definitions for PFAS Drinking Water Rule
Policy
20 May 2026
The EPA will hold a virtual public hearing on July 7, 2026, to discuss both the proposed deadline extension and the rescission of the four PFAS from the 2024 rule. Read the proposals and submit your comments by July 20, 2026.
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NC regulators are choosing to not set numeric limits on chemical pollution in waterways. Why?
Policy
14 May 2026
At the same time the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality says health-based numeric standards are the most effective, fair way to protect people’s health because they would reduce PFAS and 1,4 dioxane pollution at the source instead of forcing water utilities to pay for expensive filtration after contamination reaches drinking water supplies.
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EPA’s new contaminants list is a warning on microplastics, PFAS
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14 May 2026 | Bloomberg Law
The list includes 88 unregulated contaminants the EPA is considering for possible future drinking water regulation: 75 individual chemicals, four broader chemical groups, and nine microbial contaminants.
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[Video] Maine nonprofit seeks volunteers to help find products containing PFAS
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8 May 2026 | News Center Maine
Defend Our Health has coordinated with the Maine Department of Public Health to send volunteers into stores to verify that products, such as cookware, do not contain PFAS.
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Major warning about danger lurking in millions of Aussie wardrobes: 'Accumulate over time'
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8 May 2026 | Yahoo!News
"That does not mean there is no risk," Dr Tan warned. "It means consumers here are being asked to trust claims without independent verification."
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Agency will move forward with plans to propose weakening some Biden-era PFAS limits, official says
Policy
7 May 2026
The details of the plan haven’t yet been released, but officials previously said they would propose rescinding limits on three types of PFAS, including what are known as GenX substances found in North Carolina. They will then reconsider them. They will do the same with a limit on a mixture of several types of PFAS.