[CPEO-MEF] PFAS, LITIGATION: New Mexico "Farmers Ruined by PFAS Face Key Moment in Fight Against Pentagon"

[Lenny Siegel]

Farmers Ruined by PFAS Face Key Moment in Fight Against Pentagon

By Pat Rizzuto 
Bloomberg Law
February 5, 2025

Neither Art nor Renee Schaap could bear to stay on their dairy farm in Curry County, New Mexico, in April 2022 as employees put down the last of their cattle, shooting 1,000 in the head one by one with .22 caliber bullets.

Workers dumped the carcasses into a 20-foot-deep trench the length of a football field, creating two layers of rotting corpses that emanated a “smell of death,” Renee said. The soil is riddled with the toxins that killed them.

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Farmers in the area tried to work with the Air Force to clean up the pollutants but were stunned in 2019 when the base sued New Mexico, saying officials didn’t have the authority to order a cleanup — a legal fight that continues. Meanwhile, a separate battle over Cannon’s culpability has become a bellwether case in national litigation over whether the federal government is liable for the contamination.

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For the entire article, see
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/farmers-ruined-by-pfas-face-key-moment-in-fight-against

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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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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)