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  • Georgia. EPA: Wells near wastewater treatment site largely OK

    Water from wells near Dalton Utilities Looper’s Bend wastewater treatment facility is largely free from the industrial chemicals perflouroctanoic acid (PFOA) and perflouroctane sulfonate (PFOS), according to the federal Environmental Protection Agency. PFOA and PFOS are related chemicals that have been used in a large variety of industrial processes for decades. They are used to […]

  • California Prop 65: PFOA selected for cancer review – comments due Dec 15, 2009

    ANNOUNCEMENT OF CHEMICALS SELECTED BY OEHHA FOR CONSIDERATION FOR LISTING BY THE CARCINOGEN IDENTIFICATION COMMITTEE AND REQUEST FOR RELEVANT INFORMATION ON THE CARCINOGENIC HAZARDS OF THESE CHEMICALS [10/15/09] The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) is the lead agency for the implementation of the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement […]

  • EWG’s submission on ATSDR’s Toxicological Profile on Perfluoroalkyls

    Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) Toxicological Profile for Perfluoroalkyls Draft for Public Comment Comments of Olga V. Naidenko, Ph.D. Senior Scientist Environmental Working Group “ATSDR needs to protect people and the environment from contamination with perfluoroalkyls” October 30, 2009 Environmental Working Group (EWG) is a non-profit public health and environmental research and […]

  • European Commission: Final report on risks from the industrial use of PFOA and APFO

    Project Title: Analysis of the risks arising from the industrial use of Perfuorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and Ammonium Perfluorooctanoate (APFO) and from their use in consumer articles. Evaluation of the risk reduction measures for potential restrictions on the manufacture, placing on the market and use of PFOA and APFO. Excerpts: Task 1: Market analysis The market […]

  • CDC: Fourth National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals

    Excerpts (Pages 247-257): General Information The perfluorochemicals (PFCs) are molecules in which all bonds of the alkyl chain are carbon-fluorine bonds except for the terminal functional group. Discussed here are perfluoroalkyl acids, amides, and alcohols which are by-products, end products, or processing aids used in the synthesis of fluoropolymers. Fluoropolymers have applications in waterproofing and […]

  • Ohio: Little Hocking Water sues over C8

    DuPont’s installation of a water filtration system at Little Hocking Water Association is not enough to adequately protect the public from C8 and other related chemicals that taint the local water system, according to a federal lawsuit recently filed in Columbus. The water association is asking the court to order DuPont to fund a comprehensive […]

  • Ohio: DuPont responds to Little Hocking Water Association suit

    DuPont attorneys filed 75 defenses last week in response to a federal lawsuit brought by the Little Hocking Water Association over C8 contamination and are asking for the suit to be dismissed. A preliminary pretrial conference on the case is set for 2:30 p.m. in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio Eastern […]

  • GAO Report: Biomonitoring

    Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics and Environmental Health, Committee on Environment and Public Works, U.S. Senate Statement of John Stephenson, Director Natural Resources and Environment Excerpts: Why GAO Did This Study Biomonitoring, which measures chemicals in people’s tissues or body fluids, has shown that the U.S. population is widely exposed to chemicals used […]

  • U.S. EPA looks at electroplating plants in Cleveland, Chicago as source of PFCs

    CLEVELAND, Ohio — At least four Northeast Ohio electroplating companies are dumping an unregulated but potentially dangerous, chemical into their sewers — and eventually untreated into Lake Erie, environmental officials said. It’s legal, but it’s alarming, U.S. EPA officials said. That’s because those four Cleveland plating plants — and seven others in Chicago scrutinized by […]

  • PFOA: 5 toxics that are everywhere: Protect yourself

    Excerpt: Is enough being done to protect us from chemicals that could harm us? Watch “Toxic America,” a special two-night investigative report with Sanjay Gupta M.D., June 2 and 3 at 8 p.m. ET on CNN. (CNN) — A growing body of research is linking five chemicals — among the most common in the world […]