[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Air Force says it won’t follow Michigan law during Wurtsmith [Air Force Base] cleanup"

[Lenny Siegel]

Air Force says it won’t follow Michigan law during Wurtsmith cleanup


By Garret Ellison
MLive (MI)
March 25, 2021


OSCODA, MI — The U.S. Air Force drew pointed criticism from activists and former state regulators during a meeting this week in which cleanup managers defended their intention to ignore new Michigan environmental rules by arguing they don’t apply to plans for expanding a groundwater treatment system near a highly polluted wetland.

Air Force attorneys said Wednesday that new state rules severely limiting how much toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” a treatment system can discharge back into the environment don’t apply to their plans to expand an existing system.

That position has angered locals who were already upset about transparency issues with the Air Force’s proposal for expanding pollution capture near Clark’s Marsh, a contaminated wetland in the Huron-Manistee National Forest adjacent to the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Oscoda.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2021/03/air-force-says-it-wont-follow-michigan-law-during-wurtsmith-cleanup.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel at cpeo.org
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