[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: EWG: "Will the Pentagon Continue To Flout State Standards for 'Forever Chemicals’?"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Will the Pentagon Continue To Flout State Standards for 'Forever Chemicals’?

By Jared Hayes
Environmental Working Group, Policy Analyst
FEBRUARY 10, 2021

In 2019, in the absence of enforceable federal limits, New Hampshire became one of the first states to set its own drinking water standards for the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS.

But so far, the Department of Defense has refused to comply with these new state standards – reinforcing the department's long history of putting service members and nearby communities at risk from PFAS, a large family of fluorinated chemicals, some of which have been linked to cancer, reproductive harm, immune system damage and other serious health problems. A recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that communities living near current or former military sites had, on average, significantly higher levels of PFAS in their blood than the average American.

Shortly after New Hampshire’s standards went into effect, state officials notified the Air Force, which ran the former Pease Air Force Base in Newington, N.H, about the state standards, which are tougher than the advisory levels set by the federal Environmental Protection Agency.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.ewg.org/news-and-analysis/2021/02/will-pentagon-continue-flout-state-standards-forever-chemicals

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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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