[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "PFAS Contamination Crisis Grows as House Passes Critical Cleanup Bill"

[Lenny Siegel]

PFAS Contamination Crisis Grows as House Passes Critical Cleanup Bill

By Robert Coleman
Environmental Working Group News Roundup
July 12, 2019

This week EWG released an updated map and analysis that shows the extent of American communities’ confirmed contamination with the highly toxic fluorinated compounds known as PFAS. The latest update adds 53 Air Force bases, five Air National Guard bases and 44 civilian airports that are also used by Air National Guard units. 

“Despite knowing the risks posed by PFAS in firefighting foam, the Pentagon continued to put military families at risk for decades,” said Melanie Benesh, EWG’s legislative attorney. “Now, when it’s time to clean up its PFAS pollution, the military is dragging its feet. It’s unconscionable.”

On Friday, the House of Representatives passed a key defense spending bill that includes a number of EWG-backed amendments to better regulate PFAS chemicals, including one that would designate the class of chemicals as “hazardous substances” under EPA’s Superfund law.

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For the entire article and links to the updated map, see
https://www.ewg.org/news-and-analysis/2019/07/ewg-news-roundup-712-pfas-contamination-crisis-grows-house-passes-critical



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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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