[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Washington DOC sues federal government over chemicals that tainted food from Airway Heights prison"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Washington DOC sues federal government over chemicals that tainted food from Airway Heights prison

By Chad Sokol 
Spokane Spokesman-Review (WA)
April 25, 2020


Washington’s Department of Corrections is suing the federal government over decades of chemical runoff from Fairchild Air Force Base that contaminated water supplies and tainted food produced at the Airway Heights Corrections Center.

State attorneys filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Spokane on Tuesday, accusing the Air Force of negligence and seeking $2.45 million in damages.

It’s the latest in a wave of lawsuits against the United States and manufacturers of aqueous film-forming foam, a toxic fire retardant that was used at Fairchild and other military installations for some 45 years before officials acknowledged it had seeped into aquifers that supply tens of millions of Americans with drinking water.

The Department of Corrections says the pollution required it to pay for water testing and forced its business division, Correctional Industries, to collect and dispose of food products that had been sent to a dozen Washington prisons and more than 70 other customers, including a Meals on Wheels charity.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/apr/24/washington-doc-sues-federal-government-over-chemic/

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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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