PfoaProject NY
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Sharing info on toxic #PFAS - poisoned my entire community in Hoosick Falls, NY. Medical/health, science, research, legislation, advocacy work (10 yrs). JustGreen Partnership & PFAS-free NY. Community liaison. Sometimes other interests. I may swear.
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PfoaProject NY
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· Nov 25
Advocate driven by PFOA's effects on Hoosick Falls area, and its residents
HOOSICK FALLS, N.Y. — Loreen Hackett would sometimes research the diseases she and members of her family encountered over the years, but the underlying reality never crystalized in her mind
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NYS again adds to the growing list of banning toxic #PFAS! HUGE round of applause to all those involved in getting this over the finish line!! @lindabrosenthal.bsky.social @cleanhealthyny.bsky.social @bobbiwilding.bsky.social @cpferrante.bsky.social @kate-donovan.bsky.social @weact4ej.bsky.social
⚠️ Manufacturers have long allowed PFAS, lead, mercury & other toxic ingredients to be used in menstrual products, endangering women’s health.
Proud that my new law with Senator Nathalia Fernandez will finally prohibit the use of these ingredients & make period products sold in NYS safer.
Proud that my new law with Senator Nathalia Fernandez will finally prohibit the use of these ingredients & make period products sold in NYS safer.
December 21, 2025 at 9:26 AM
NYS again adds to the growing list of banning toxic #PFAS! HUGE round of applause to all those involved in getting this over the finish line!! @lindabrosenthal.bsky.social @cleanhealthyny.bsky.social @bobbiwilding.bsky.social @cpferrante.bsky.social @kate-donovan.bsky.social @weact4ej.bsky.social
"Thursday’s hearing represents a key test of whether Congress will defend communities exposed to #PFAS or bend to industry pressure."
TIME: 10 a.m. ET
TIME: 10 a.m. ET
TOMORROW at 10 a.m. ET: Congress will hold a critical hearing on #PFAS #ForeverChemicals.
Lawmakers are considering whether to exempt certain industries (POLLUTERS) from cleaning up their PFAS mess, leaving communities and taxpayers to pay the price.
#PublicHealth
www.ewg.org/news-insight...
Lawmakers are considering whether to exempt certain industries (POLLUTERS) from cleaning up their PFAS mess, leaving communities and taxpayers to pay the price.
#PublicHealth
www.ewg.org/news-insight...
Congress’ scrutiny of toxic 'forever chemicals' cleanup liability puts public health at risk
As the Trump administration rolls back environmental
www.ewg.org
December 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM
"Thursday’s hearing represents a key test of whether Congress will defend communities exposed to #PFAS or bend to industry pressure."
TIME: 10 a.m. ET
TIME: 10 a.m. ET
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PFAS can cause serious health consequences.
Yet manufacturers make them anyway — risking the well-being of our communities.
That’s why Sen. Gillibrand and I reintroduced the PFAS Accountability Act to help exposure victims get justice.
Yet manufacturers make them anyway — risking the well-being of our communities.
That’s why Sen. Gillibrand and I reintroduced the PFAS Accountability Act to help exposure victims get justice.
December 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
PFAS can cause serious health consequences.
Yet manufacturers make them anyway — risking the well-being of our communities.
That’s why Sen. Gillibrand and I reintroduced the PFAS Accountability Act to help exposure victims get justice.
Yet manufacturers make them anyway — risking the well-being of our communities.
That’s why Sen. Gillibrand and I reintroduced the PFAS Accountability Act to help exposure victims get justice.
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Celebrity chefs told Californians that PFAS-coated pans were “safe,” and successfully lobbied Gavin Newsom to veto a bill phasing them out
They didn’t mention they all sell PFAS-coated pans.
New joint investigation with @mirandagreen.bsky.social and @atmosmag.bsky.social is out:
They didn’t mention they all sell PFAS-coated pans.
New joint investigation with @mirandagreen.bsky.social and @atmosmag.bsky.social is out:
Why are famous chefs fighting PFAS bans?
The answer, in retrospect, is obvious—and it’s part of a larger campaign to stop bans on Teflon cookware nationwide.
heated.world
December 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Celebrity chefs told Californians that PFAS-coated pans were “safe,” and successfully lobbied Gavin Newsom to veto a bill phasing them out
They didn’t mention they all sell PFAS-coated pans.
New joint investigation with @mirandagreen.bsky.social and @atmosmag.bsky.social is out:
They didn’t mention they all sell PFAS-coated pans.
New joint investigation with @mirandagreen.bsky.social and @atmosmag.bsky.social is out:
Someone please make this make sense: They're calling for a plan to expedite #PFAS cleanup, but are going to approve using the same shit that's caused the massive contamination at 100s of bases for years longer, that they have been banned from buying for the past two years ?????
The #NDAA would delay the phaseout of 'forever chemicals' from the military's firefighting foam
#PFAS #GreenSky
thehill.com/policy/energ...
#PFAS #GreenSky
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thehill.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Someone please make this make sense: They're calling for a plan to expedite #PFAS cleanup, but are going to approve using the same shit that's caused the massive contamination at 100s of bases for years longer, that they have been banned from buying for the past two years ?????
This should be the easiest bill you sign this year
@governor.ny.gov I can't fathom one reason why you wouldn't want to protect women, and especially young girls who could suffer a lifetime of health harms, from this toxic crap #PFAS Learn from Hoosick Falls. We've suffered enough.
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@governor.ny.gov I can't fathom one reason why you wouldn't want to protect women, and especially young girls who could suffer a lifetime of health harms, from this toxic crap #PFAS Learn from Hoosick Falls. We've suffered enough.
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https://www.timesunion.com/opinion/article/commentary-get-pfas-toxins-menstrual-products-21231281.php?utm_content=hed&sid=5b6c7bcccdb7ec68cd3f3c77&ss=P&st_rid=null&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=ema...
t.co
December 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
This should be the easiest bill you sign this year
@governor.ny.gov I can't fathom one reason why you wouldn't want to protect women, and especially young girls who could suffer a lifetime of health harms, from this toxic crap #PFAS Learn from Hoosick Falls. We've suffered enough.
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@governor.ny.gov I can't fathom one reason why you wouldn't want to protect women, and especially young girls who could suffer a lifetime of health harms, from this toxic crap #PFAS Learn from Hoosick Falls. We've suffered enough.
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"Removing #PFAS from drinking water not only results in drastically improved health outcomes. It also produces a significant long-term economic benefit." Contamination imposes costs of at least $8 billion on the babies born each year. BABIES!!
news.arizona.edu/news/new-res...
news.arizona.edu/news/new-res...
New research links health impacts related to 'forever chemicals' to billions in economic losses
A University of Arizona study finds that PFAS contamination imposes annual social costs of at least $8 billion.
news.arizona.edu
December 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
"Removing #PFAS from drinking water not only results in drastically improved health outcomes. It also produces a significant long-term economic benefit." Contamination imposes costs of at least $8 billion on the babies born each year. BABIES!!
news.arizona.edu/news/new-res...
news.arizona.edu/news/new-res...
The health burden from phthalates, bisphenols, pesticides and #PFAS amounts to up to $2.2tn a year – driving increased rates of cancer, neurodevelopmental conditions, infertility, endocrine disruption (to name a few)
Synthetic chemicals in food system creating health burden of $2.2tn a year, report finds
Synthetic chemicals in food system creating health burden of $2.2tn a year, report finds
Scientists issue urgent warning about chemicals, found to cause cancer and infertility as well as harming environment
Scientists have issued an urgent warning that some of the synthetic chemicals that help underpin the current food system are driving increased rates of cancer, neurodevelopmental conditions and infertility, while degrading the foundations of global agriculture.
The health burden from phthalates, bisphenols, pesticides and Pfas “forever chemicals” amounts to up to $2.2tn a year – roughly as much as the profits of the world’s 100 largest publicly listed companies, according to the report published on Wednesday. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The health burden from phthalates, bisphenols, pesticides and #PFAS amounts to up to $2.2tn a year – driving increased rates of cancer, neurodevelopmental conditions, infertility, endocrine disruption (to name a few)
So Sec Kennedy going on about "infant formula in a mother's breast", and yet absolute silence on the known effects of toxic #PFAS on babies. Zeldin needs to read this, too. Another in the long list of examples of truly horrifying, jaw dropping data on harms:
theconversation.com/pfas-in-preg...
theconversation.com/pfas-in-preg...
PFAS in pregnant women’s drinking water puts their babies at higher risk, study finds
An innovative study mapped preterm births, low birth weights and infant mortality to municipal water wells downstream from PFAS-contaminated sites. The results show the high cost of PFAS harm.
theconversation.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:45 AM
So Sec Kennedy going on about "infant formula in a mother's breast", and yet absolute silence on the known effects of toxic #PFAS on babies. Zeldin needs to read this, too. Another in the long list of examples of truly horrifying, jaw dropping data on harms:
theconversation.com/pfas-in-preg...
theconversation.com/pfas-in-preg...
"Allowing more #PFAS pesticides – and disparaging safer organic alternatives – won’t make America healthy again. And contaminating our farmland with persistent forever chemicals won’t help the farmers who feed us."
VIA @ewgofficial.bsky.social
www.ewg.org/news-insight...
VIA @ewgofficial.bsky.social
www.ewg.org/news-insight...
EWG to Lee Zeldin: PFAS pesticides are bad news, not ‘fake news’
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin claims “fake news” to reports spotlighting the agency’s approval of new pesticides made with the toxic “
www.ewg.org
December 7, 2025 at 11:57 AM
"Allowing more #PFAS pesticides – and disparaging safer organic alternatives – won’t make America healthy again. And contaminating our farmland with persistent forever chemicals won’t help the farmers who feed us."
VIA @ewgofficial.bsky.social
www.ewg.org/news-insight...
VIA @ewgofficial.bsky.social
www.ewg.org/news-insight...
“Opposition of the land application of biosolids that have detectable amounts of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances #PFAS and/or elevated levels of heavy metals,” was highlighted in a press release as a policy resolution for '26". GREAT!
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New York Farm Bureau calls for state to test sewage sludge for PFAS
The organization said they will support testing of sewage sludge for PFAS, heavy metals and other toxins prior to landspreading.
spectrumlocalnews.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM
“Opposition of the land application of biosolids that have detectable amounts of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances #PFAS and/or elevated levels of heavy metals,” was highlighted in a press release as a policy resolution for '26". GREAT!
spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...
spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...
Human milk contained both legacy & emerging #PFAS & infants PFAS consumption through breastfeeding (As Zeldin fights to roll back PFNA & PFHXS regs) 98% had levels higher than EFSA acceptable weekly intake
-The kicker? Study funded by the EPA & NIH
What the hell man??
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
-The kicker? Study funded by the EPA & NIH
What the hell man??
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
Concentrations and Estimated Daily Intake of Legacy and Emerging PFAS in the Milk of Women Residing in the Greater Cincinnati Area
Background: Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been reported in human milk. However, prior U.S. studies have not included novel PFAS alternatives of emerging concern or infants Estimated ...
www.medrxiv.org
December 6, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Human milk contained both legacy & emerging #PFAS & infants PFAS consumption through breastfeeding (As Zeldin fights to roll back PFNA & PFHXS regs) 98% had levels higher than EFSA acceptable weekly intake
-The kicker? Study funded by the EPA & NIH
What the hell man??
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
-The kicker? Study funded by the EPA & NIH
What the hell man??
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
How can one not be thoroughly disgusted that EPA is rolling back all kinds of regulations of this toxic crap?? Study adds to the LONG list: "the initial effect of #PFAS on a child during pregnancy may grow to have even greater impact later in a child’s life"
ncats.nih.gov/news-events/...
ncats.nih.gov/news-events/...
Pre-Birth Exposure to Forever Chemicals May Harm the Immune System
A study following mother–baby pairs found that high PFAS exposure during pregnancy can harm babies’ immune systems and may weaken their vaccine response.
ncats.nih.gov
November 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
How can one not be thoroughly disgusted that EPA is rolling back all kinds of regulations of this toxic crap?? Study adds to the LONG list: "the initial effect of #PFAS on a child during pregnancy may grow to have even greater impact later in a child’s life"
ncats.nih.gov/news-events/...
ncats.nih.gov/news-events/...
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Scientist @hanspeterarp.bsky.social warns, "It’s accumulating in our tap water, the food we’re eating, plants, trees, the sea, + all in the past few decades”. David Behringer adds, “If you’re drinking water, you’re drinking a lot of TFA, wherever you are in the world"
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Rapidly rising levels of TFA ‘forever chemical’ alarm experts
Trifluoroacetic acid found in drinking water and rain is thought to damage fertility and child development
share.google
November 27, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Scientist @hanspeterarp.bsky.social warns, "It’s accumulating in our tap water, the food we’re eating, plants, trees, the sea, + all in the past few decades”. David Behringer adds, “If you’re drinking water, you’re drinking a lot of TFA, wherever you are in the world"
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Researchers analyzed gas from 30 landfills across the United States and found #PFAS contamination at every single site.
Their data suggest that landfills nationwide may collectively emit nearly a ton of PFAS into the air annually.
www.thenewlede.org/2025/11/land...
Their data suggest that landfills nationwide may collectively emit nearly a ton of PFAS into the air annually.
www.thenewlede.org/2025/11/land...
US landfills emit nearly a ton of airborne PFAS a year, study finds
US municipal landfills leak roughly 1,800 pounds of PFAS into the air annually — evidence that the country’s garbage dumps are a persistent source of airborne “forever chemicals,” according to a new n...
www.thenewlede.org
November 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Researchers analyzed gas from 30 landfills across the United States and found #PFAS contamination at every single site.
Their data suggest that landfills nationwide may collectively emit nearly a ton of PFAS into the air annually.
www.thenewlede.org/2025/11/land...
Their data suggest that landfills nationwide may collectively emit nearly a ton of PFAS into the air annually.
www.thenewlede.org/2025/11/land...
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The EPA Is Embracing PFAS Pesticides. These Are The Health Risks
time.com
EPA Is Embracing PFAS Pesticides. These Are The Health Risks
twp.ai
November 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The EPA Is Embracing PFAS Pesticides. These Are The Health Risks
Good news: World’s largest chemicals group, BASF, will phase out #PFAS by '28. US-based Ecolab will exit PFAS by '26 -nervous investors & financial risk after 3M fiasco. Chemours & Solvay closed plants this year in France, but not in U.S. (Chemours trying to expand in NC)
chemsec.org/worlds-bigge...
chemsec.org/worlds-bigge...
World's biggest chemicals group to exit PFAS 'forever chemicals'
BASF will phase out PFAS by 2028. This decision signals a new trend among chemical giants to phase out “forever chemicals".
chemsec.org
November 27, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Good news: World’s largest chemicals group, BASF, will phase out #PFAS by '28. US-based Ecolab will exit PFAS by '26 -nervous investors & financial risk after 3M fiasco. Chemours & Solvay closed plants this year in France, but not in U.S. (Chemours trying to expand in NC)
chemsec.org/worlds-bigge...
chemsec.org/worlds-bigge...
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The EPA is prioritizing review of new chemicals to be used in data centers. Experts say this could lead to the fast approval of new types of forever chemicals—with limited oversight.
The Trump Administration’s Data Center Push Could Open the Door for New Forever Chemicals
The EPA is prioritizing review of new chemicals to be used in data centers. Experts say this could lead to the fast approval of new types of forever chemicals—with limited oversight.
wrd.cm
November 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The EPA is prioritizing review of new chemicals to be used in data centers. Experts say this could lead to the fast approval of new types of forever chemicals—with limited oversight.
Boohoo- such a 'burden' of reporting the presence of #PFAS so consumers & agencies identify sources of harmful chemicals & reduce exposures. What about the body burden?!! "Pushback may not only be about compliance issues but also about strategically avoiding PFAS regulations" - boom.
Pharmaceutical companies lobby against state PFAS regulations claiming compliance chaos. Environmental advocates say most state laws align, the real issue is companies don't want transparency about forever chemicals in medications.
Pharma Pushes Back on State PFAS Regulations
Drugmakers claim that broad state PFAS laws are overly burdensome. But environmental health experts aren’t convinced.
f.mtr.cool
November 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Boohoo- such a 'burden' of reporting the presence of #PFAS so consumers & agencies identify sources of harmful chemicals & reduce exposures. What about the body burden?!! "Pushback may not only be about compliance issues but also about strategically avoiding PFAS regulations" - boom.
How just unbelievably f* stupid. Are the cancer numbers too low or something??? Don't ask about MAHA/RFK jr either - they are mute on #PFAS. Chuck Grassley (took 100s of 1000s from Big Ag) screaming on X that RFK PROMISED to stay out of Ag/pesticides. Health be damned - ALWAYS follow the $$. Jerks.
The EPA has approved a new pesticide that contains PFAS, or 'forever chemicals', to be used on vegetables like lettuce, broccoli and potatoes.
November 25, 2025 at 11:10 AM
How just unbelievably f* stupid. Are the cancer numbers too low or something??? Don't ask about MAHA/RFK jr either - they are mute on #PFAS. Chuck Grassley (took 100s of 1000s from Big Ag) screaming on X that RFK PROMISED to stay out of Ag/pesticides. Health be damned - ALWAYS follow the $$. Jerks.
Pentagon produced new cleanup timetables at end of March, pushing back time frame for collecting info on the extent of contamination & studies to evaluate cleanup options for some installations by nearly a decade. #PFAS Like they don't have the $$.. 😠
www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...
www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...
Senate Democrats urge reversal of Pentagon decision to delay PFAS cleanups
Some 150 military sites have been given revised timelines for cleanups of chemicals known as PFAS, commonly found in firefighting foam.
www.stripes.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Pentagon produced new cleanup timetables at end of March, pushing back time frame for collecting info on the extent of contamination & studies to evaluate cleanup options for some installations by nearly a decade. #PFAS Like they don't have the $$.. 😠
www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...
www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...
If @governor.ny.gov does not sign the bill before the end of 2025, this inaction will signal a veto and bill S1548/A1502 will not become law. She must sign it as a continuation of standing up for NYS women. Seriously Governor, we're #PFAS polluted enough.
www.recordonline.com/story/opinio...
www.recordonline.com/story/opinio...
Kathy Hochul must make period products in New York safer. This is why | Opinion
Gov. Kathy Hochul must sign pending legislation that would mandate safer period products in New York.
www.recordonline.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:26 PM
If @governor.ny.gov does not sign the bill before the end of 2025, this inaction will signal a veto and bill S1548/A1502 will not become law. She must sign it as a continuation of standing up for NYS women. Seriously Governor, we're #PFAS polluted enough.
www.recordonline.com/story/opinio...
www.recordonline.com/story/opinio...