PFAS back in headlines, but 'Forever Chemicals' might be forever off the table
A new executive order freezes any new federal regulations including an EPA rule that would limit PFAS concentrations in industrial wastewater.
Fact Check: Did Trump Overturn Ban on Forever Chemicals in Drinking Water?
"A really ugly betrayal of the Make America Healthy Again movement, Trump official reverses plans to ban 'forever chemicals' ...
NobleAI Launches RAIR: An All-in-One, Integrated Risk Assessment & Ingredient Replacement Solution
Tech français consacré aux nouvelles technologies (internet, logiciel, matériel, mobilité, entreprise) et au jeu vidéo PC et ...
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Trump Withdraws Proposed PFAS Limitations, Giving “Green Light” to Polluters
Faced with a silent but widespread threat to public health, environmental groups applauded the Biden administration for ...
Investigative: We walk around with troubling ‘forever chemicals’ in our bodies
In a laboratory used by researchers from Old Dominion University, analytical chemist Eva Doty tests wastewater from a local treatment plant. She’s looking for something she expects to find — ...
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EPA sets sights on public health threat of 'forever chemicals': 'That means we must work to develop our collective understanding'
According to NIEHS, studies have found forever chemicals in the blood and urine of humans. The organization adds that ...
Le Monde.fr14d
When industry manipulates science to prevent a PFAS ban
A technical article with an austere title ("Grouping of PFAS for human health risk assessment"). Signed by an "independent panel of experts." Published in a peer-reviewed journal belonging to the ...
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Black & Veatch selected by AWWA to develop guidance for PFAS pilot testing
Black & Veatch (Overland Park, Kan.) has been selected by the American Water Works Association (AWWA) to develop nationwide guidance for pilot testing treatment for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances ...
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PFAS Destruction and Near-Complete Defluorination of Undiluted Aqueous Film-Forming Foams at Ambient Conditions by Piezoelectric Ball Milling
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York 13699, United States Institute for a Sustainable Environment, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York 13699, ...
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PFAS scandal: Ministry under the spell of the chemical lobby
In 2023, the Federal Republic of Germany, together with four other countries, proposed a fundamental restriction on PFAS. The aim was ... their consultants. The chemical lobby also claimed that ...
Le Monde.fr15d
PFAS: How the chemical industry is derailing a ban on 'forever chemicals'
InvestigationLe Monde and its 29 media partners reveal the inner workings of the intense lobbying campaign waged by the sectors using and producing PFAS to ... in the line of chemical industry ...
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Chemicals industry accused of pre-emptive strike against incoming PFAS ban
The five countries called for a blanket ban because the prevailing EU system of tackling chemical substances one by one meant that any of the handful of PFAS already banned could simply be ...