Huge piles of #PFAS#foreverchemicals foam in Battle Creek, about a mile south of the #3m main research lab, where these were developed as a fire fighting foam. The groundwater here is contaminated from a dump site about 8 miles north, and probably from the laboratories.
Wild idea: how about you don’t poison us for profit?
“The European Commission is planning to allow for wide-ranging exemptions from a proposed ban on substances known as PFAS, or ‘forever chemicals’, to protect key industries, German newspaper Welt reported on Wednesday.”
In Friesland konden ze hun ogen niet geloven, toen ze zagen dat op sommige plekken in het water maar liefst negenhonderd keer zoveel #PFAS zitten als volgens officiële richtlijnen toegestaan.
Mensen krijgen advies niet te zwemmen in de Jelsumer Feart en om hun dieren er niet uit te laten drinken. Mensen met hobbykippen moeten hun eieren weggooien. Moestuinen en akkers moeten niet besproeid worden met water uit de vaart.
When Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn was a child growing up in an evangelical family in Lubbock, Texas, her father, a former air force pilot, was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 38. Her family sought help from preachers, holy men and faith healers but unbeknownst to them, her father had been exposed to high levels of PFAS — as of this month, limited in drinking water by the FDA — on the military sites where he had worked. @TexasObserver has published this extract from Blackburn's memoir, "Loose of Earth," in which she talks about these forever chemicals, how they may have been linked to her father's illness, and a story her grandmother once shared.
Les polluants éternels sont partout, mais les scientifiques n’ont pas dit leur dernier mot. Des bactéries mangeuses de PFAS aux filtres imprimés en 3D en passant par des végétaux se chargeant de faire le « sale boulot », Usbek & Rica passe au crible quatre techniques pour décontaminer les milieux naturels.
"The legacy of 3M chemical waste from former dumps, the underground PFAS plume has tainted drinking water supplies for years. Over the next 50 years, it is expected to reach new areas in Oakdale and Woodbury"
Dealing with PFAS, 3M's legacy... a very expensive one.
"De zorg van de overheid is gericht op de bewoonbaarheid van het land en de bescherming en verbetering van het leefmilieu."
"De overheid treft maatregelen ter bevordering van de volksgezondheid."
Tot zover onze Grondwet. https://www.denederlandsegrondwet.nl/id/vi9zmflmh1zd/artikel_21_milieu
Things are not going well in Hawaiʻi. Less rain is leading to significant droughts, and repeated jet fuel leaks and #PFAS chemical spills are contaminating aquifers…
A reminder that your health will always be "too costly" to for-profit companies in charge of it.
Also, not only would this (EPA finally regulating PFAS in water) not happen under Trump, but he actively dismantled the Clean Water Act during his time in office.
The EPA. Under President Biden's administration, finally made a rule for "forever chemicals" in our drinking water.
These chemicals are bad for us, even in tiny amounts, and they can stick around in the environment for hundreds of years. The new rule should help reduce PFAS exposure for about 100 million people. It's been a long time since the EPA set a new drinking water standard, so this is a big deal. 🚰
“A new study of more than 45,000 water samples around the world found that ~31% of groundwater samples tested that weren’t near any obvious source of contamination had #PFAS levels considered harmful to human health by the Environmental Protection Agency.
“High levels of exposure to some PFAS chemicals have been linked to higher cholesterol, liver and immune system damage, hypertension & pre-eclampsia
during pregnancy, as well as kidney & testicular cancer.”