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Michigan property owners settle PFAS case for $54 million
-The deal involves approximately 1,700 properties north of Grand Rapids.
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Drinking Water News Roundup: Steps to ensure safe drinking water, Indigenous business leaders raise awareness
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How to destroy a ‘forever chemical’ – scientists are discovering ways to eliminate PFAS, but this growing global health problem isn’t going away soon
-The latest breakthrough shows how one class of PFAS can be broken down into mostly harmless components using sodium hydroxide, or lye, an inexpensive compound used in soap. It isn’t an immediate solution to this vast problem, but it offers new insight.
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Drinking Water News Roundup: Boil water advisories across region, Pennsylvania residents fight for public water
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Michigan PFAS activists urge bolder action at fed hearing in East Lansing
-Activists want federal military and environmental regulators to better regulate cancer-causing PFAS chemicals, including at military sites such as Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Oscoda.
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Drinking Water News Roundup: Lead levels increase in Flint water, businesses sued over water contamination concerns
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Drinking Water News Roundup: 8 million Illinoisans get drinking water, backup reservoir used in Indiana, Gov. Whitmer awards clean water grants
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MI environmental group calls EPA’s PFAS advisory a “wake-up call” for industries
-The U.S. EPA issued health advisories for PFAS that essentially suggest there is no safe level of PFAS in drinking water.
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Drinking Water News Roundup: Flooding poses risk to well water, Indiana drinking water report shared, EPA grants for Ohio
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Pressure growing to remove PFAS from fast food wrappers
-In the U.S., only California sets a limit of 100 parts per million of total fluorine in food packaging.