[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Meeting about Eielson Air Force Base (AK)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

‘Dire Health Effects’: Local Group Seeks Strict Regulation of Firefighting-foam Chemicals 

By TIM ELLIS 
KUAC  (Fairbanks, AK)
November 28, 2017 

A toxic-chemical expert told a group in Fairbanks Monday that perflourinated compounds that have contaminated groundwater around some Fairbanks and Eielson Air Force Base-area neighborhoods pose a serious, long-term threat to human health. Organizers of the meeting say they hope to convince state and federal regulators to set more stringent standards for the chemical compounds.

Alaskans may soon be hearing a lot more about the two chemical compounds that showed up in groundwater tests conducted last year in the community just outside Eielson Air Force Base.

“Moose Creek was the first site, and then the other sites came to light more recently,” says Pam Miller, executive director of Anchorage-based Alaska Community Action on Toxics. “And, y’know, I think we’re just beginning to see the extent of the problem, beginning here in Fairbanks.”

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For the entire story, see
http://fm.kuac.org/post/dire-health-effects-local-group-seeks-strict-regulation-firefighting-foam-chemicals

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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>
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