{"id":3475,"date":"2026-06-03T16:35:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T08:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/?p=3475"},"modified":"2026-06-03T16:35:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T08:35:27","slug":"several-nordic-countries-are-advancing-pfas-regulations-but-historical-soil-and-groundwater-contamination-remains-a-serious-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/several-nordic-countries-are-advancing-pfas-regulations-but-historical-soil-and-groundwater-contamination-remains-a-serious-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Several Nordic countries are advancing PFAS regulations, but historical soil and groundwater contamination remains a serious issue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sweden has officially implemented its national PFAS action plan, focusing on drinking water and groundwater remediation; Finland and Norway have simultaneously released domestic monitoring data, revealing that PFAS left behind by chemical industries in Nordic industrial zones over the past 30 years has extensively seeped into deep groundwater, rendering tap water in some rural areas unfit for drinking. Simultaneous monitoring in the Baltic Sea reveals that ballast water from ships and wastewater from coastal aquaculture are causing microplastic and nitrogen-phosphorus pollution. Oxygen-depleted zones in the sea continue to expand, and spawning grounds for cod and herring are shrinking year by year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden has officially implemented its national PFAS action plan, focusing on drinking water and groundwater remediation; Finland and Norway have simultaneously released domestic monitoring data, revealing that PFAS left behind by chemical industries in Nordic industrial zones over the past 30 years has extensively seeped into deep groundwater, rendering tap water in some rural areas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event"],"views":32,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3477,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475\/revisions\/3477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}