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PFAS : une étude montre des risques de perturbations du développement cérébral pour la faune - [McInformactions.net]

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Bonta accuses DuPont of corporate shell game to dodge PFAS cleanup in California

California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta filed a complaint Thursday alleging that a cohort of the companies that make “forever chemicals” partook in a massive corporate shell game to defraud the state and others. In an amendment to a 2022 lawsuit filed by Bonta against the makers of these chemicals, the state now alleges that several DuPont spin-off companies — New DuPont, Corteva, Chemours and Qnity Electronics — worked together to create a “fall guy” company designed to take the financial hit stemming from several multibillion-dollar pollution lawsuits while keeping the companies’ most valuable assets out of reach. “The DuPont Defendants cannot game the system by illegally moving assets out of reach, dodging liabilities for the harm they have caused, and calling it restructuring,” Bonta said in a statement. “I look forward to ensuring that these companies are held accountable for PFAS pollution and that their assets cannot be hidden behind corporate walls while their responsibilities are left behind.” The Second Amended Complaint, as the new amendment is called, was filed in U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina on Thursday. DuPont did not respond to multiple requests for comment. In 2022, Bonta sued 20 chemical manufacturers, including 3M...

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Australian government's complex case against PFAS manufacturer 3M laid out in Federal Court

A Federal Court judge has described the Commonwealth's $2 billion lawsuit against the chemical manufacturing company 3M over PFAS contamination at defence bases as "daunting". During the first case management hearing in Federal Court today the two parties agreed the Australian government's claim was "large and complex". It heard a 1,600 page statement of claim has been filed about alleged soil and water contamination at 28 defence bases across Australia, where firefighting foam containing PFAS chemicals was used. Justice Catherine Button told the court sitting in Melbourne she had "never seen a claim like this … and to characterise it as daunting would be an understatement, daunting for everybody". In March the Commonwealth announced it was seeking damages from US-based chemical manufacturer 3M and 3M Australia. It the largest legal claim ever brought by the federal government, attempting to recoup the costs associated with investigating, managing and remediating contamination from the legacy use of AFFF firefighting foam. It alleges the company withheld the results of its own environmental laboratory testing that shows there were significant adverse environmental effects associated with its PFAS products. 3M released a statement saying "we will defend ourselves against these claims through legal process", and despite...

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Keramik statt PFAS: Worauf es bei Heißluftfritteusen jetzt ankommt

Das CHIP Testcenter hat das eigene Testverfahren für Heißluftfritteusen überarbeitet und Ausstattungspunkte, die Gesundheit und Nachhaltigkeit betreffen, stärker gewichtet. Der neue Testsieger ist vor...

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Los países europeos se blindan frente a los PFAS y se adelantan a la UE

Suecia es uno de los últimos países que han presentado sus medidas para la prohibición de los PFAS, las sustancias químicas eternas con efectos negativos en la salud humana, animal y medioambiental

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PFAS legislation would set drinking water limits

With the recent rains New York has experienced, environmental advocates are calling on New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to sign legislation banning PFAS in drinking water while also raising concerns about algal blooms. “What New York’s been experiencing, a lot of people, especially in the Hudson Valley, have been calling it thousand-year storms,” said Vanessa Fajans-Turner, executive director of Environmental Advocates New York. Fajans-Turner says more than ever, New York needs legislation to enforce stronger limits on PFAS in drinking water. PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals,” are a class of more than 15,000 toxic chemicals that appear in a vast range of everyday consumer products to industrial ones. They’ve been linked to kidney cancer and low birth weights. Fajans-Turner says heavy rains like the state recently experienced often aren’t absorbed by the soil. As a result, those rains often cause runoff and stormwater that dumps dangerous chemicals into our water ways, not just from potential soil contamination, but also from litter and trash of products that contain PFAS. Some of those toxic chemicals can also promote the growth of algal blooms. “This is a piece of legislation that we want to put four parts per trillion (4.0 ppt) into...

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Some clothing sold by Shein is contaminated with chemicals, tests reveal

Some of the clothing sold on the online platform Shein is heavily contaminated with chemicals and exceeds EU limits, tests conducted by the Bremen Environmental Institute on behalf of Deutsche Umwelth...

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All bodies of water in England polluted with toxic chemicals, official data shows

Environment Agency assessments find just 14.3% of country’s surface waters in good ecological status

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PFAS contamination halts Bern university campus construction

Construction of the new Bern University of Applied Sciences campus has been halted since the end of 2025 after PFAS chemicals were found in the soil, SRF reports. Work cannot resume until a remediation plan is completed. The campus is being built in Ausserholligen, in the west of Bern. Around 7,0…

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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...