Green Science Policy Institute
Green Science Policy Institute is a research center that is part of the pulse of the water sector. Here we bring together everything it publishes on Smart Water Magazine: its news, its blogs and the events it takes part in.
Most research on PFAS harms is unpublicized
Though per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) make headlines daily, a new paper reveals that most studies finding links between PFAS exposure and human health harms are published without a press release and receive little or no media coverage. The peer-reviewed analysis, published today in the journal Environmental Health, found that studies without any press attention receive fewer scholarly […]
Former EPA and NIEHS directors urge overhaul of WHO’s draft PFAS drinking water guidance
The World Health Organization's draft drinking water guidance for the two most well-studied per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) exhibit a "striking and inappropriate disregard of the best available science," according to former directors of the U.S. EPA's Office of Science and Technology and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). In a viewpoint for the journal Environmental […]
Scientists urge business and government to treat PFAS chemicals as a class
All per- and polyfluorinated substances (PFAS) should be treated as one class and avoided for nonessential uses, according to a peer-reviewed article published in Environmental Science & Technology Letters. The authors—16 scientists from universities, the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the European Environment Agency, and NGOs—say the extreme persistence and known toxicity of PFAS that have been studied […]