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Let’s say you have 10 nanograms of PFAS in your body right now. Even with no additional exposure, five years from now you would still have 5 nanograms, five years later, you would have 2.5 and then five years after that, you’d have one 1.25 nanograms. It would be about 25 years before all the PFAS leave your body.

Jane Hoppin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

To find this level of contamination in fish across the country, even in areas not close to industry where you might expect heavy contamination, is very concerning. These chemicals are everywhere.

Linda Birnbaum

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They need it for food or because it’s their culture, there are Native American tribes and Burmese immigrants and others who fish because this is who they are. This is key to their culture. And you can’t just tell them not to fish.

Linda Birnbaum

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These truly are ‘forever chemicals,’ this reinforces the reality that we need to get all PFAS out of consumer products and people’s lives.

Leonardo Trasande

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Consuming even a single (locally caught freshwater) fish per year can measurably and significantly change the levels of PFOS in your blood.

David Andrews

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The analysis focused on EPA wild-caught fish in rivers, streams and throughout the Great Lakes from 2013 to 2015 as that was the latest data available.

David Andrews

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Some of these chemicals have half-lives in the range of five years.

National Academies

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Of course, when humans make mistakes they are held to account, the problem is that you ca n’t make a machine responsible for its mistakes … How do you punish it ? How do you sanction it ? You ca n’t.

Alan Winfield

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Every American, every Virginian should be outraged that a child in Virginia today is being denied their dreams because of their racial background, period.

Jason Miyares

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our current understanding is that the delay at TJHSST this fall was a unique situation due to human error, but we will leave it to our investigative review to draw any final conclusion.

Fairfax County

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I have said before – in America about the only state-sanctioned form of bigotry is anti-Asian bigotry, and it is wrong and we’re going to hold folks accountable, to the extent that withholding of any of these awards at Thomas Jefferson High School was based on race, national origin or any other protected status under the Virginia human rights act, that is unlawful.

Jason Miyares

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s really revolving credit, mostly credit card debt, that’s carrying the day right now, a lot of that would be on essentials, some of it on discretionary stuff as well; but with the average credit card rate approaching 20%, it’s a tough time to be growing your balance.

Ted Rossman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think we can attribute a lot of that [revolving debt increases] to holiday shopping.

Ted Rossman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have seen far too much political violence lately and all of these events are powerful reminders that stirring up fear, heightening tensions, and stoking hatred can have devastating consequences.

Javier Martinez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was terrifying. My house had four shots through the front door and windows, where just hours before my grandbaby and I were playing in the living room, processing this attack continues to be incredibly heavy, especially knowing that other women and people of color elected officials, with children and grandbabies, were targeted.

Bernalillo County Commissioner Adriann Barboa

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They are in between a rock and a hard place and the critical mistake was in fact, the drip, drip, drip, the essence of crisis communications is – figure out where the story is going, get there as soon as possible, get there as thoroughly as possible.

David Axelrod

Found on CNN
1 year ago

On this particular story, they just don’t look good, they are in between a rock and a hard place and the critical mistake was in fact, the drip, drip, drip.

David Axelrod

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The population will likely trend down from here in coming years. This is very important, with implications for potential growth and domestic demand.

Zhiwei Zhang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

China’s economy likely bottomed in December, for many cities in China, the peak of the first wave [of Covid outbreaks] likely already passed. High frequency indicators such as traffic congestion index rebounded sharply in January.

Zhiwei Zhang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

His research is a very good way to push back on the silly assumption that mass doesn’t matter in war at sea.

Alessio Patalano

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In naval war, attrition is a real thing, so the ability to replace is vital.

Alessio Patalano

Found on CNN
1 year ago

However, it was the overall might of US industry and the size of the US fleet (particularly its logistics and amphibious ships) that ground out victory over the Imperial Japanese Navy.

Sam Tangredi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The United States Navy is going to is not going to be able to match the PLAN missile for missile.

Mike Gilday

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A larger fleet tend to be more competitive, in training personnel development, and operational capacity.

Alessio Patalano

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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