ATMOsphere America Summit 2026 — Presentations
HFOs and TFA: The Growing Threat of PFAS
This session explored why f-gases such as HFOs are considered PFAS and how their atmospheric degradation product trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) is proliferating in the environment and turning up in human blood, with potential health implications.
Michael Garry, Editor-at-Large, ATMOsphere
Andy Baker, Owner of YourCleanEnergy
Cora Young, Associate Professor and Rogers Chair in Chemistry at the York University
John Jacob, State Toxicologist, Hawaii Department of Health