[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Indiana-based Companies in Charge of Incinerating Military’s PFAS Firefighting Foam Stockpiles"

[Lenny Siegel]

Indiana-based Companies in Charge of Incinerating Military’s PFAS Firefighting Foam Stockpiles
Heritage Environmental Services LLC and Tradebe Treatment and Recycling LLC are caught in the middle of a lawsuit between the DoD and groups that want PFAS incineration to stop.

By Enrique Saenz
Indiana Environmental Reporter
March 5, 2020

Two Indiana-based hazardous waste treatment companies are playing a leading role nationally in the incineration of the U.S. military’s stockpiles of toxic firefighting foam and have landed in the middle of a legal battle.

Indianapolis-based Heritage Environmental Services LLC and Merrillville-based Tradebe Treatment and Recycling LLC signed on as contractors to incinerate hundreds of thousands of gallons of the U.S. Department of Defense’s PFAS-laden aqueous film-forming foam.

Environmental advocacy groups from around the country have sued to annul the contracts and stop the incineration of AFFF stockpiles until it can be proven that all PFAS chemicals are broken down and all possible emissions are eliminated.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.indianaenvironmentalreporter.org/posts/indiana-based-companies-in-charge-of-incinerating-militarys-pfas-firefighting-foam-stockpiles

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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LSiegel at cpeo.org
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