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| Date: | Sat, 8 Jul 2017 13:16:15 -0700 (PDT) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Subject: | Re: [CPEO-MEF] Military Digest, Vol 155, Issue 5 | ||||||||||||||||
And, the Bucks County Veterans Green Jobs Initiative has over 100 vets and family members registered for free blood tests. Contributions can be sent to our escrow fund at mcuker@wcblegal.com. He is also accepting injury cases involving AFFF. Send Military mailing list submissions to Larry Menkes
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From: military-request <military-request@lists.cpeo.org> To: military <military@lists.cpeo.org> Sent: Sat, Jul 8, 2017 12:11 pm Subject: Military Digest, Vol 155, Issue 5 Send Military mailing list submissions to military@lists.cpeo.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to military-request@lists.cpeo.org You can reach the person managing the list at military-owner@lists.cpeo.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Military digest..." Today's Topics: 1. PFCs: "Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick seeks to tie PFC health study to military spending bi (Lenny Siegel) 2. GLOBAL: "U.S. base information gathered for Okinawa [Japan] environmental records to plan smooth use of returned land" (Lenny Siegel) Attached Message
By Kyle Bagenstose Bucks County Courier Times (PA) July 7, 2017 Bucks Congressman Brian Fizpatrick, R-8, of Middletown, announced Fridaythat he'll try and compel the military to pay for a health study examining whether people exposed to perfluorinated compounds were sickened by the chemicals. To do so, the congressman has introduced two amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act, an annual bill that provides the legal framework for the military to disburse funds. That bill, one of two must-pass military spending bills that come up each year, is viewed by elected officials as a path of least resistance to require actions from the military. Perfluorinated compounds PFOS and PFOA were used for decades in firefighting foams employed by the military around the country. Concerns about their toxicity have skyrocketed over the past 15 years, causing the Department of Defense to begin a nationwide contamination investigation involving hundreds of military sites. … For the entire article, see http://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/news/horsham-pfos/rep-brian-fitzpatrick-seeks-to-tie-pfc-health-study-to/article_59c56487-318a-5f39-b0e4-1847b1148fd7.html -- 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 Attached Message
Ryukyu Shimpo June 28, 2017 The Okinawa Prefectural Department of Environmental Affairs has prepared foundational materials titled “U.S. Base Environmental Records”, which contain information regarding the use history of and accidents involving environmental pollution at U.S. military facilities in Okinawa including bases that have already been returned, and posted these materials on the official prefectural homepage on June 26. It is the first time that the use history of land, categorized by facility, has been collected in an effort to provide unified information in a database. The goal of this is to facilitate smooth land-use planning for U.S. military facility land that will be returned in the future. … In Okinawa, there have been many cases in which contamination was discovered on land returned by the U.S. military after the land was returned, such as the case of barrels containing dioxins and other harmful substances being found buried in a soccer field in Okinawa City. However, measures to return the land to its original state have been inconsistent. … For the entire article, see http://english.ryukyushimpo.jp/2017/07/07/27265/ -- 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 Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |||||||||||||||||
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