[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Cancer-causing foam could be banned in military training next year, off military bases entirely by 2029"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cancer-causing foam could be banned in military training next year, off military bases entirely by 2029

by Leo Shane III
Military Times
June 4, 2019

House lawmakers would force military bases to stop using toxic firefighting foam in almost all training activities and ban them altogether over the next decade under legislation unveiled this week.

The measure, part of the House Armed Services Committee’s initial draft of the annual defense authorization bill, would also make available millions of dollars in environmental clean-up funding to National Guard bases, to address chemical contamination that can seep into groundwater and cause serious health concerns.

At issue are the use of cancer-causing perfluoroalky and polyfluoroalkyl substances ― more commonly known as PFAS ― that are found in the firefighting foam and over the years have found their way into water systems on military bases and surrounding communities.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/06/04/cancer-causing-foam-could-be-banned-in-military-training-next-year-off-military-bases-entirely-by-2029/

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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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