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Massachusetts PFAS & Your Health Study retweeted
Silent Spring Inst@SilentSpringIns5 Jul 2023
Holding the companies that pollute our drinking water financially responsible is a step in the right direction! wbur.org/news/2023/06/23/3m-… @WBUR

3M to pay $10 billion to clean up 'forever chemicals.' Critics say that's not enough

3M has agreed pay up to $10.3 billion over 13 years to help clean up toxic PFAS chemicals in public water supplies. 3M says the settlement is not an admission of liability.

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Laurel Schaider@laurelschaider14 Mar 2023
The wait is over. @EPA announced draft drinking water standards of 4 ppt for PFOS and PFOA - lower than all existing state standards. AND (I wasn't expecting this) a combined standard for 4 other PFAS (PFNA, PFHxS, PFBS, and GenX chemicals) using a hazard index calculation. xitter.cf/EPA/status/16356466439…
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Massachusetts PFAS & Your Health Study retweeted
Laurel Schaider@laurelschaider19 Jan 2023
Excited to be part of the @mbccprevention webinar in honor of Margo Simon Golden today, along with @ArleneBlum1 and @mvmaffini on what all of us can do to reduce exposures to #PFAS.
MA Breast Cancer Coalition@mbccprevention16 Jan 2023
MBCC will host the 2nd Annual Margo Simon Golden Memorial Webinar and Distinguished Service Award presentation on 1/19. To register, please visit mbcc.org/tribute/ #PFAS
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Massachusetts PFAS & Your Health Study retweeted
EWG@ewg16 Nov 2021
EPA will use its new stricter safe levels of #PFAS exposure to develop enforceable drinking water limits for PFOA and PFOS. #ForeverChemicals. ewg.org/news-insights/news-r…

EPA finds PFAS are more toxic than previously thought

Today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that safe levels of exposure to PFAS – the levels at which harms might not occur – should be thousands of times lower than limits it first...

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Massachusetts PFAS & Your Health Study retweeted
Silent Spring Inst@SilentSpringIns4 Oct 2021
"This is a reminder that local governments need to follow through on ongoing efforts to clean up sites that are highly contaminated with #PFAS, including the fire training academy and airport." @laurelschaider capecodtimes.com/story/news/… via @capecodtimes
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Massachusetts PFAS & Your Health Study retweeted
Silent Spring Inst@SilentSpringIns23 Sep 2021
Just 2 days left to RSVP for Silent Spring's Gala for Prevention, a live hybrid event! Reply by Friday, Sept. 24 if you plan to join us in person at the studio or host a House Party! Tickets: silentspring.org/galaforprev… @MassAGO @jimbraude @MargeryEagan #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth
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Massachusetts PFAS & Your Health Study retweeted
Silent Spring Inst@SilentSpringIns22 Sep 2021
#PFAS chemicals are not only bad for your health, they're bad for the climate. theguardian.com/environment/…

Production of forever chemicals emits potent greenhouse gases, analysis finds

EPA data reveals that one of America’s biggest PFAS manufacturing plants is second largest polluter of highly damaging HCFC-22 gas

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