2018 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 13:30:45 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Vienna air reserve station [OH] part of EPA testing"
 
Vienna air reserve station part of EPA testing
The United States Air Force is no longer using a controversial form of firefighting foam that was profiled recently across the country


By Gerry Ricciuti
WKBN TV-27 News (Youngstown, OH) 
January 9, 2018

VIENNA TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WKBN) – The United States Air Force is no longer using a controversial form of firefighting foam that was profiled recently across the country.

The Air Force banned the use of a foam containing potentially deadly chemicals known as PFCs last spring.

CBS News profiled the problem recently, claiming people living and working near Air Force bases had contracted cancer. At that time, the military ordered testing be done near more than 190 bases, including the Youngstown Air Reserve Station in Vienna, to see if any local groundwater had been contaminated.

…

For the entire story, see
http://wkbn.com/2018/01/09/vienna-air-reserve-station-part-of-epa-testing/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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