[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Michigan invokes new dispute with Air Force over Wurtsmith cleanup"

[Lenny Siegel]

Michigan invokes new dispute with Air Force over Wurtsmith cleanup

By Garret Ellison
mLive (MI)
October 21, 2024

LANSING, MI — It’s déjà vu all over again.

The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) has initiated another legal dispute with the U.S. Air Force over its compliance with a state law governing the cleanup of PFAS chemicals at the former Wurtsmith air base.

The state, which has long struggled to exercise oversight of the military-led cleanup in Oscoda, invoked a new dispute on Oct. 8alleging that the Air Force is moving ahead with a new treatment system plan this year under the wrong state environmental law.

Instead of monitoring a new interim treatment system’s ability to remediate ‘forever chemical’ pollution by testing where a groundwater plume enters nearby Van Etten Lake, the Air Force wants to test clean water where it discharges underground.

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Aside from the sampling location, there is minimal practical difference …

For the entire article, see
https://www.mlive.com/environment/2024/10/michigan-invokes-new-dispute-with-air-force-over-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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