[CPEO-MEF] PFAS, DISPOSAL: "Navy Says It Will Halt All PFAS Shipments to Cohoes' [NY]burn plant"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy Says It Will Halt All PFAS Shipments to Cohoes' burn plant
Follows earlier plans to send 58,000 gallons, which were abandoned

By Rick Karlin
Albany Times-Union (NY)
May 21, 2020

COHOES - The U.S. Navy says it is suspending all shipments of toxic firefighting foam to the city.

The decision was made following a Times Union story earlier in the week, about plans, later abandoned, to send 58,000 gallons of the foam, known as aqueous film forming foam,  to be incinerated in the Norlite plant in Cohoes.

“All shipment of AFFF to Cohoes has stopped,” according to U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer’s office. The New York Democrat had been calling the Navy and Department of Defense urging them to halt shipments to Norlite where the chemicals, in 2018 and 2019, unbeknownst to the city, were being incinerated.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Feds-say-they-will-halt-all-PFAS-shipments-to-15286342.php

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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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