[CPEO-MEF] PFCs: "Air Force can't fund Pease [NH] health study"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Air Force can’t fund Pease [NH] health study

By Jeff McMenemy
Foster's Daily Democrat (NH)
May 30, 2017


PORTSMOUTH — The director of a federal agency studying the PFC exposure at the former Pease Air Force Base believes there should be a national health study done on the chemical’s health effects.

Unfortunately for the children and adults who were exposed to the chemicals in contaminated Portsmouth drinking water, the agency doesn’t have the money to pay for the study and the Air Force - which contaminated the well - says it can’t.

Air Force Lt. Col. Joseph Constantino told the crowd gathered at Tuesday night’s meeting of the Pease Community Assistance Panel that they had received a request from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry to pay for the health studies.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.fosters.com/news/20170530/air-force-cant-fund-pease-health-study

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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