[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "New Mexico officials find themselves stonewalled by the United States military..."

[Lenny Siegel]

NM officials await word from Air Force on PFAS contamination

By Laura Paskus
New Mexico Political Report
May 24, 2019

New Mexico officials find themselves stonewalled by the United States military over water contamination from two U.S. Air Force bases in the state.

In early May, New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas and New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) Secretary James Kenney sent a letter to the U.S. Air Force over contamination, this time at Holloman Lake.

Previously, groundwater tests at Cannon Air Force Base in Clovis and Holloman Air Force Base in Alamogordo showed high concentrations of PFAS, or per and polyfluoroalkyl substances.

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For the entire article, see
https://nmpoliticalreport.com/2019/05/24/nm-officials-await-word-from-air-force-on-pfas-contamination/

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