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Bill mandating ingredient labels on menstrual products headed to Spanberger • Virginia Mercury While some companies label ingredients used to make menstrual health products like tampons or pads, many disclose little about the chemicals their products contain.

"Bill mandating ingredient labels on menstrual products headed to Spanberger" Read the full article here: virginiamercury.com/2026/03/03/b...

Gov. Evers Signs New PFAS, Lead Regulations But Republican legislators still fighting such agency rules despite court rulings.

Gov. Evers Signs New PFAS, Lead Regulations

Feb. 27 Policy Watch: EPA sued over latest dicamba approval In other developments, the EPA adds another PFAS to its Toxics Release Inventory program and the Interior Department proposes seabed mining rules

Feb. 27 Policy Watch: EPA sued over latest dicamba approval

In other developments, the EPA adds another PFAS to its Toxics Release Inventory program and the Interior Department proposes seabed mining rules.

#chemsky 🧪

North Carolina Regulators Nix $1.2 Billion Federal Proposal to Dredge Wilmington Harbor - Inside Climate News U.S. Army Corps of Engineers failed to explain how it would mitigate environmental harms, including PFAS contamination.

North Carolina coastal regulators formally objected to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ $1.2B plan to dredge 28 miles of Wilmington Harbor, saying the proposal conflicts with state coastal policies and lacks key information on environmental harms, including PFAS contamination and wetland loss.

After cancer diagnoses, Tewksbury family seeks answers about landfill contaminated with PFAS A brother and sister want to know if the chemicals contributed to their illness.

"After cancer diagnoses, Tewksbury family seeks answers about landfill contaminated with PFAS". Read the full story here: www.wcvb.com/article/afte...

More than 70% of American adults are very or somewhat concerned about exposure to toxic chemicals in their food and drinking water, according to a new survey by the Pew Charitable Trusts. https://cnn.it/3OBhqFh

Team USA is proving that world-class skiing doesn’t require PFAS wax U.S. ski techs reflect on competing at the first Olympics banning waxes with "forever chemicals."

Team USA is proving that world-class skiing doesn’t require PFAS wax

U.S. Forest Service Stops Issuing Firefighter Pants That Contain PFAS, Following ProPublica’s Reporting Officials at the agency knew about the use of potentially dangerous “forever chemicals” in protective gear years before publicly acknowledging the issue, according to emails obtained by ProPublica.

NEW: ProPublica recently reported that the U.S. Forest Service knowingly issued protective gear containing PFAS to wildland firefighters.

The agency says it has now stopped distributing those garments.

By @abestreep.bsky.social

Documenting PFAS Contamination in Southern Communities | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site | Documentary Series Reporters and filmmakers talk about making the documentary ‘Contaminated: The Carpet Industry’s Toxic Legacy,’ which examined how industry, regulators and communities have navigated forever chemical c...

How did PFAS chemicals contaminate the water and environment in parts of Georgia and Alabama? The reporters and filmmakers behind a collaborative project investigating the issue discussed what it was like to bring it to life in "Contaminated: The Carpet Industry’s Toxic Legacy."

PFAS Project Lab members Kimberly Garrett and Alissa Cordner are quoted in this Allegheny Front article! Read the full article here: www.alleghenyfront.org/pfas-forever... @alissa-a.bsky.social @kimgarrett.bsky.social

Three Olympic Athletes Were Just Disqualified for a Novel Reason: PFAS Their skis and snowboards tested positive for “forever chemicals,” slippery-but-dangerous chemicals now banned in the Games.

Several Olympic athletes were disqualified after their skis and snowboards tested positive for traces of PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” which have been banned at the Games for the first time this year because of their damage to the environment and the human body.

Race to find source of carcinogenic Pfas in Cumbria and Lancashire waters Exclusive: High levels of banned ‘forever chemical’ have been detected in rivers and groundwater at 25 sites

It's still a shock to find a new PFAS forever chemical hotspot, even when it's inevitable. A bit of digging around paper mills, which often use PFAS, revealed the banned carcinogen PFOS at levels as high as 3,000ng/l in groundwater in south Cumbria
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Firefighters Wore Gear Containing “Forever Chemicals.” The Forest Service Knew and Stayed Silent for Years. As early as 2021, government officials were alerted to the presence of potentially dangerous chemicals known as PFAS in pants used by wildland firefighters, according to emails obtained by ProPublica.

Forest Service officials were alerted in 2021 to the presence of “forever chemicals,” also known as PFAS, in gear worn by wildland firefighters.

The agency has yet to publicly acknowledge the issue.

The Olympics just saw its first ‘forever chemical’ disqualifications Waxes containing PFAS are banned at the Milan-Cortina Games. Three athletes already have been disqualified for using them.

The Olympics just saw its first ‘forever chemical’ disqualifications

Whistleblower Says Radioactive Fracking Waste Site Melted His Jaw. Now There’s an Elementary School There. Then an elementary school was built on top of it.

For decades, Texas let drillers spread staggering amounts of radioactive and PFAS-ridden waste on the fringes of the nation’s fourth largest metro area — while making it virtually impossible for the public to know where.

Absolutely fucking insane story from @saulelbein.bsky.social today

Firefighters Wore Gear Containing “Forever Chemicals.” The Forest Service Knew and Stayed Silent for Years. As early as 2021, government officials were alerted to the presence of potentially dangerous chemicals known as PFAS in pants used by wildland firefighters, according to emails obtained by ProPublica.

“Email correspondence obtained by ProPublica shows that government officials were alerted to the presence of PFAS in pants used by wildland firefighters as early as 2021.”
Via @abestreep.bsky.social

Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work.

Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.

(Published May 2024)

The Olympics are ditching PFAS waxes — and the ‘ridiculous’ speed they gave skiers After years of concern over so-called “fluoro” waxes, the Milan Cortina Games will be the first Olympics without them.

The Olympics are ditching PFAS waxes — and the ‘ridiculous’ speed they gave skiers

How PFAS harm our health — and why they're everywhere - Horizons What do non-stick pans, firefighting foam and many of our couches, carpets and cosmetics have in common? They’re all made with PFAS. The so-called forever chemicals helped spur innovation, but they’re...

PFAS, also known as "forever chemicals," helped spur innovation. But they're also insidious to human health. https://to.pbs.org/4qRXD2m

The February 2026 PFAS Project Lab Newsletter is out now! Check it out here: mailchi.mp/89ff8130ba04...

Environmentalists decry ‘crushingly disappointing’ Pfas action plan for UK Ministers’ proposals to tackle ‘forever chemicals’ fail to match tougher stance taken in Europe, say experts Environmental campaigners have criticised a “crushingly disappointing” UK government plan to tackle “forever chemicals”, which they warn risks locking in decades of avoidable harm to people and the environment. The government said its Pfas action plan set out a “clear framework” of “coordinated action … to understand where these chemicals are coming from, how they spread and how to reduce public and environmental exposure”. Continue reading...

Environmentalists decry ‘crushingly disappointing’ Pfas action plan for UK

A crisis emerges across the US as ‘forever chemicals’ quietly contaminate drinking water wells The roughly 40 million Americans who get drinking water from wells are at particular risk when harmful forever chemicals contaminate the supply.

"A crisis emerges across the US as ‘forever chemicals’ quietly contaminate drinking water wells." Read the full article about ongoing PFAS contamination in Stella, Wisconsin: apnews.com/article/pfas...

Lithium can help clean up PFAS Researchers tap into battery failure to destroy forever chemicals

Exciting advance in breaking down #PFAS forever chemicals: Lithium helps reduce PFAS to reusable fluorine 🧪https://cen.acs.org/environment/persistent-pollutants/PFAS-lithium-battery/104/web/2026/01

Wisconsin Assembly hearing signals movement on long delayed PFAS legislation • Wisconsin Examiner After more than two years of gridlock, Wisconsin legislators are hopeful a bill can be passed to address PFAS remediation.

Wisconsin Assembly hearing signals movement on long-delayed PFAS legislation via @henry-redman.bsky.social wisconsinexaminer.com/2026/01/21/w...

Health groups sue EPA over insecticide that causes testicular damage in rats Groups say EPA did not adequately consider adverse health effects to children when it approved the pesticide

Food and drinking water are main sources of exposure to 'forever chemicals' polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Yet US regulators keep approving pesticides containing PFAS for use on food crops. 🧪 🌍 #health

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Judges signal support for ‘forever chemicals’ Superfund rule A federal appellate court panel did not seem swayed by industry groups’ plea to toss EPA’s hazardous substance designations for two types of PFAS.

"Judges signal support for ‘forever chemicals’ Superfund rule". Read the full article: www.eenews.net/articles/jud...

Is Your Home Trying to Kill You? AD cuts through the noise about “low-tox” living—with expert advice on the changes you actually should make

🏡 The green living movement is growing—but we can’t shop our way out of toxic chemicals & plastics.

PFAS, phthalates & flame retardants hide in furniture, cleaners & building materials, ending up in air & dust. We need systemic policy change to protect health & get toxic chemicals out of homes!

Report: Invisible Ingredients - Tackling toxic chemicals in the food system - Center for Environmental Health A new report provides the most comprehensive global assessment to date of how four major chemical groups—phthalates, bisphenols, pesticides, and PFAS—affect human health, ecosystems, and economic stab...

A new report from System IQ provides a comprehensive assessment of how major chemical groups (including #PFAS) affect human health, ecosystems, and economic stability through the global food system.

Our CEO Kizzy Charles-Guzman was a contributor to this report. ceh.org/report-invis...

Marine 'forever chemicals' disrupt energy production in seabirds New study finds marine pollutants are disrupting energy production at the cellular level in wild seabirds, potentially affecting fitness

⚠️🌊 'Forever chemicals' & mercury, which can be released into the sea by oil & gas activity, are disrupting energy production in seabirds at a cellular level, potentially affecting reproduction & flight ability - new research finds 🪶

#EndOffshoreDrilling
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PFAS levels are declining in Great Lakes fish, new research shows - Bridge Michigan The study, spearheaded by a federal research office that the Trump administration has since dismantled, shows fish responded quickly after manufacturers stopped using some PFAS compounds.

"PFAS levels are declining in Great Lakes fish, new research shows". Read the full article: bridgemi.com/michigan-env...