#foreverchemicals is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 31 people shared 35 posts with it — around 1 a day. Activity is down 57% versus the previous week, peaking on Jul 16 with 4 posts.

Posts with #foreverchemicals

Mariah Blake

@mariahblake.bsky.social

about 1 year ago

Big news: After nearly a decade, DuPont has agreed to settle a class-action suit brought by the people of Hoosick Falls, NY, the community I spent years following for my book. All told, the village's roughly 3,000 residents will receive about $90 million in damages. #PFAS #ForeverChemicals

timesunion.com

DuPont agrees to settle lawsuit over Hoosick Falls water pollution

DuPont Co. has agreed to settle a federal class-action lawsuit that was filed nearly a decade ago on behalf of residents in and around the village of Hoosick Falls.

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The Conversation U.S.

@us.theconversation.com

over 1 year ago

#PFAS chemicals resist degradation for up to 1,000 years. A group of #chemistry researchers developed a light-driven technique could transform them into harmless chemicals and ions buff.ly/3DbA015 (Arindam Sau @colorado.edu; Mihai Popescu and Xin Liu, Colorado State) 🧪 🌎 #foreverchemicals

buff.ly

We developed a way to use light to dismantle PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ – long-lasting environmental pollutants

PFAS are made up of a chain of incredibly strong carbon-fluorine bonds, which make them difficult to break down.

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Brittany Trang

@brittanytrang.com

over 1 year ago

There are two really cool #PFAS / #foreverchemicals degradation papers out in Nature today In one, the authors show that powdered Teflon can be transformed into charcoal+fluoride with light+a catalyst+reducing reagent & some very important help from mainly KOH and Cs formate This is bonkers cool:

www.nature.com

Photocatalytic low-temperature defluorination of PFASs - Nature

Photocatalysis at 40–60 °C is shown to be able to defluorinate perfluoroalkyl substances, known as ‘forever chemicals’, allowing the recycling of fluorine in polyfluoroalkyl and perfluoroalkyl substan...

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Monica Amarelo

@monicaamarelo.bsky.social

11 months ago

Water filtration systems installed to remove the #ForeverChemicals known as #PFAS are also filtering out other toxic chemicals — some linked to #cancer. Story by @mollytaft.com ‪for‪ @wired.com. A thread about major health benefit to needed upgrades. www.wired.com/story/we-can...

www.wired.com

It’s Possible to Remove the Forever Chemicals in Drinking Water. Will It Happen?

New research shows that filtration systems that remove PFAS can also get rid of other harmful substances. Whether they’ll actually be introduced is a different matter entirely.

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Natalie Bennett

@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

PFAS - after France introduces laws, now Canada. UK being left further and further behind #ForeverChemicals #PublicHealth phys.org/news/2025-03...

phys.org

Canada proposes phase out of 'forever chemicals' in consumer products

Canada on Wednesday proposed phasing out "forever chemicals" in many consumer products after finding them to be toxic and harmful at current high levels found in people and the environment.

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European Environmental Bureau🍃

@eeb.org

8 months ago

No place to hide from #PFAS pollution, not even the deep-sea Scientists analysed 127 whales and dolphins & have sounded the alarm over these toxic #foreverchemicals The full impact on wildlife remains unknown, but PFAS could disrupt immune and reproductive systems www.euronews.com/green/20….

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MadeInDex 📰 🌎

@madeindex.bsky.social

about 1 year ago

You’d think that, with everything we know about #PFAS, governments would lower the limits, right? Think again. When the #foreverchemicals limit (TFA here) is too strict for corporations in #Germany, they can simply have it raised twentyfold! 1/3 🖼️ CCO madeindex.org

A black and white illustration featuring a heart with a skull at its center. Above the heart, the words 'Government + Corporations + PFAS are prominently displayed. Surrounding the heart, a snake winds its way around the design.

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Sander Turnhout🔻🍉🌳🌱🍄🦟🐈‍⬛🍓🔥

@sanderturnhout.bsky.social

12 months ago

Er zijn nog veel onduidelijkheden maar één ding is wel duidelijk: #foreverchemicals heten zo omdat ze niet worden afgebroken. En dan is het een kwestie van tijd voordat de toxische drempelwaarden overschreden worden. Er is dus ook maar één ding dat je moet doen. Verbieden en uitfaseren. #pfas #pfos

Jean-Pierre Geelen @jpgeelen.bsky.social

Pfas zit niet alleen in mensen, maar ook in dieren, soms honderden keren boven de limieten. Wat doet dat met ze? Wetenschappers zoeken het uit. www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/p...

www.volkskrant.nl

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Natalie Bennett

@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

There is no escape on this #PoisonedPlanet. With huge impacts on #PublicHealth and environmental conditions #PFAS #ForeverChemicals www.theguardian.com/envir….

www.theguardian.com

‘Forever chemical’ found in mineral water from several European countries

Contamination thought to stem from the heavy application of pesticides containing TFA, a type of PFAS

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European Environmental Bureau🍃

@eeb.org

11 months ago

🔴 PFAS ('forever chemicals') found in wild fish across multiple EU countries! New EEB report shows that: 🧪 Most samples exceed proposed safety limits ⚠️ Some exceed by 10,000x 🕰️ Member States want to delay action until 2051 Link in comments ⬇️ #PFAS #Environment #PublicHealth #ForeverChemicals

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Paul Guinnessy

@paulguinnessy.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

The most important news (if they can scale it up) that happened today: A Japanese research group has developed a new method to break down PFAS, a group of organic fluorine compounds often called #ForeverChemicals for their persistence in the environment. www.japantimes.co.jp/news….

www.japantimes.co.jp

Japanese researchers develop method to break down PFAS 'forever chemicals'

Ritsumeikan University researchers succeeded in completely breaking down perfluorooctane sulfonate, or PFOS.

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Mariah Blake

@mariahblake.bsky.social

12 months ago

This is important: At least *172 million* Americans are drinking water that's polluted with toxic #PFAS, according to new @EPA data. That more than 1/2 the total U.S. population, and a large share of water supplies have yet to be tested. #ForeverChemicals #Plastic 1/ www.ewg.org/interactive-...

www.ewg.org

Interactive Map: PFAS Contamination Crisis: New Data Show 9,552 Sites in 50 States

The known extent of contamination of American communities with the highly toxic fluorinated compounds known as PFAS continues to grow at an alarming rate.

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