MidHudsonNews [dot] com is reporting the New York State Health Department and the SUNY Albany School of Public Health have been given $1 million by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry. The funds will be used to support a health study of the exposures of residents living in Newburgh and Hoosick Falls where the drinking water has been contaminated with PFAS. The funding supports the first year of a five-year project involving only seven sites nationwide. For the New York study, 1,000 adults ages 18 and older and 300 children ages four to 17, from the Newburgh and Hoosick areas, will be recruited. Both locations were seriously impacted by legacy industrial sources and firefighting foams used by the military and others. The U.S. EPA, meanwhile, announced the state’s Center for Environmental Health and Wadsworth Center Laboratories will receive approximately $900,000 over a three-year period to develop an extensive database of PFAS found near landfills throughout New York. Read the full story at MidHudsonNews [dot] com.