'Forever Chemicals': Why PFAS Are So Impervious, And Who Is Most At Risk From Them: PBS NewsHour

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- Why PFAS are so impervious, and who is most at risk from the forever chemicals. Dec 9, 2021. PBS NewsHour.
The new infrastructure law contains $10 billion for cleaning up drinking water that has been contaminated by a specific group of man-made chemicals. But problems with "forever chemicals" go back decades, and are located in many places around the U.S.
- Miles O'Brien looks at the impact they've had in one community in New Hampshire, and how the U.S. Air Force is now dealing with its past use of them.
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(EWG). In 1946, DuPont introduced Teflon to the world, changing millions of people’s lives – and polluting their bodies. Today, the family of compounds including Teflon, commonly called PFAS, is found not only in pots and pans but also in the blood of people around the world, including 99% of Americans.
PFAS chemicals pollute water, do not break down, and remain in the environment and people for decades. Some scientists call them “forever chemicals."
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- 'Biden administration launches new federal purchasing policy to spur alternatives to “forever chemicals.”

WASHINGTON – The Biden administration today issued an executive order on sustainable purchasing that directs federal agencies to seek alternatives to the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS.
The new directive applies to more than $650 billion in annual federal purchases of goods and services from the private sector and creates an important new marketplace incentive for safer products. “EWG applauds the Biden-Harris administration for following through on its campaign promise to use the power of federal purchasing to address PFAS,” said John Reeder, EWG vice president for federal affairs. -More...

- Environmental Working Group, https://www.ewg.org/areas-focus/toxic-chemicals/pfas-chemicals

[The Jungle 1]

1. DuPont is going to get away Scott free.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

2. I find it annoying when writers don't know the meaning of certain common words like 'toxic' ...

These chemicals are not 'toxic'

Very few of the vast number of compounds of the PFA class ... are even suspected (let alone proven) to be harmful to animal/human life at all, actually.

Aside from radioactive stuff obviously, the reason most things stick around 'forever' ... is because they're intrinsically inert.

[KT2000]

3. Environmental Health Perspectives

https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/action/doSearch?AllField=PFA+Chemicals

[The Jungle 1]

4. I believe you are wrong about PFA's

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/magazine/the-lawyer-who-became-duponts-worst-nightmare.html
Why were Wilbur Tennant's cows dying?