[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Congressional caucus says "Pentagon needs ‘culture change’ on pollution"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pentagon needs ‘culture change’ on pollution, say PFAS caucus members


By Garret Ellison 
MLive (MI)
January 30, 2021

WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Department of Defense must adopt a more constructive attitude toward cleaning up toxic “forever chemical” pollution, say members of a bipartisan caucus in Congress that’s pushing the new administration to move swiftly on regulations that would curb exposure to PFAS chemicals in the environment.

U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Flint, called for a “culture change” among leadership at the Pentagon when dealing with fluorochemical pollution cleanup during a call with reporters on Jan. 29 to announce a relaunching of the Congressional PFAS Task Force for the new legislative session.

On Friday, the task force sent a letter to President Joe Biden in which 132 members of Congress from both parties urged immediate steps to tackle the contamination problem across the nation, citing advocacy group data suggesting more than 200 million Americans are likely drinking tap water that contains at least trace levels of the chemicals.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2021/01/pentagon-needs-culture-change-on-pollution-say-pfas-caucus-members.html

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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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