[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Pentagon talks PFAS"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pentagon talks PFAS

By  KELSEY TAMBORRINO 
Politico
September 13, 2019

DoD TALKS PFAS: As House and Senate negotiators work to hammer out a final deal on PFAS as part of the 2020 defense bill, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Sustainment Bob McMahon invited reporters to the Pentagon on Thursday to talk about the military's efforts to deal with the contamination. Here were ME's top takeaways:

— The contamination is probably worse than previously known. In a 2018, the military reported 401 sites that were known or suspected of being contaminated with PFOA or PFOS, but McMahon told reporters he "would expect to see some growth in that [number] as we begin to get a better understanding and a better characterization of where we are."

— DoD wants EPA, not Congress, to make the calls. McMahon and his lead for environmental issues, Maureen Sullivan, argued that EPA should be allowed to go through its process for making a decision on whether to list PFOA, PFOS and related compounds as hazardous for the purposes of Superfund, rather than Congress mandating it as the House-passed defense bill would.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-energy/2019/09/13/pentagon-talks-pfas-477403

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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