[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: New EWG Map: 305 Military Sites That Used PFAS-based Firefighting Foam

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New EWG Map: 305 Military Sites That Used PFAS-based Firefighting Foam

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
Environmental Working Group
DECEMBER 10, 2019

WASHINGTON – Environmental Working Group today published a mapof 305 military installations that used the firefighting foams made with the toxic fluorinated chemicals called PFAS, which have likely contaminated drinking water or ground water on or around the bases.

These are sites where the military conducted crash or fire training, which under military regulations used the PFAS-based foams called Aqueous Film-Forming Foam, or AFFF. Of these sites, 138 have not been previously identified on EWG’s map of known PFAS contamination at military bases, civilian airports and industrial sites. In addition, 42 of these sites were not included on a list of 401 locations the Pentagon gave to Congress of active and former installations where PFAS contamination was known or suspected.

The Pentagon’s use of PFAS-based firefighting foams was first reported in a groundbreaking 2015 investigation by Sharon Lerner for The Intercept.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.ewg.org/release/new-ewg-map-305-military-sites-used-pfas-based-firefighting-foam

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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