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• Litchfield is the latest in Northeast communities to be put over the edge over concerns that a potentially cancer-causing chemical has contaminated the drinking water

  LITCHFIELD, New Hampshire — When Tracy Madden heard her water could be contaminated with the potentially cancer-causing chemical PFOA, she started thinking about all the ailments she’s endured over the years that her doctors couldn’t diagnose. The 49-year-old property manager from Litchfield, New Hampshire, thought back to the nerve pain that continues to nag her […]

• PFOA: US prosecutors seek records of unregulated chemical in river

  Federal prosecutors have demanded documents, research and monitoring data from a state agency as they investigate a Fortune 500 company’s release of a little-studied chemical into a river that supplies drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people, officials said Thursday. The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality received a subpoena last week from U.S. […]

• Scott helps Bennington celebrate new water line to address PFOA in wells

  BENNINGTON — On Monday, Gov. Phil Scott helped celebrate the first new connection of a major water line extension project designed to address PFOA contamination of hundreds of local wells. “Today, we are here to celebrate the progress we’ve made to connect residents to this municipal line,” the governor said, shortly before turning a valve […]

• Fluorspar: Tertiary Minerals agreement with Possehl looks the real deal

  Discussions are advanced over acquisitions in both the fluorspar and industrial minerals sector AIM-listed Tertiary Minerals PLC (LON:TYM)  is the UK’s only public traded fluorspar company. And it looks set to hold onto that position for the foreseeable future after global commodities group Possehl agreed to help to develop its three main assets. Germany-based, Possehl is part […]

• PFCS. State alleges 3M chemicals caused cancer and infertility, alleges $5 billion in damage

  Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson says toxic chemicals dumped by 3M Co. in the east metro suburb Oakdale caused higher rates of cancer, infertility and low birthweight babies — the first time anyone has estimated the potential human health impact of groundwater contamination in the area since the problem came to light almost two decades […]

• Osaka University chemists unlock the potential of fluoroalkenes

  One of the strongest chemical bonds in organic chemistry is formed between carbon and fluorine, giving unique properties to chemical compounds featuring this group. Pharmaceutical researchers are very interested in carbon-fluorine bond containing molecules because of the way they mimic certain behaviors of biological compounds. However, the strength of the carbon-fluorine bond makes it difficult […]

• Ebensburg: Sides sink teeth into fluoride debate

  As a Cambria County community weighs removing fluoride from its drinking water, dentistry experts and their opponents continue to advocate for different outcomes. Dentists, orthodontists and other health-minded people have said that fluoride is instrumental in fighting tooth decay. All the while, however, protesters of fluoride — a mineral used to fight tooth decay — […]

• First for cells as they’re made to manufacture fluorinated bioplastics

  Genetically modified bacteria could make synthesis of new materials more sustainable Bacteria have been genetically engineered to digest a fluorine compound and turn it into a new type of bioplastic. This is the first biosynthesis of a fluoropolymer and it could pave the way to making organofluorine synthesis greener. Although fluorine has found its way […]

• Fluorine-containing molecules from cell cultures

  Living cells produce fluorinated metabolites and bioplastics Natural organic compounds that contain fluorine are rare because living organisms — with a few exceptions — do not produce them. American scientists have now genetically engineered a microbial host for organofluorine metabolism, allowing it to produce a fluoridated intermediate known as a diketide. As reported in the […]

• Is Your Drinking Water Contaminated with Toxic Non-stick Chemicals?

  When you drink a glass of water, you expect it to be clean and pure, not contaminated with invisible toxic chemicals. But nationwide testing has found that 6.5 million Americans in 27 states are drinking water tainted by an industrial compound that was used for decades to make Teflon. The chemical, known as PFOA, has […]