[CPEO-MEF] PFAS, COMMUNITIES: "Meeting dust-up ends blitz of Wurtsmith [AFB, MI] cleanup advocacy on sour note"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Meeting dust-up ends blitz of Wurtsmith cleanup advocacy on sour note

By Garret Ellison
MLive (MI)
April 22, 2021

OSCODA, MI — On Tuesday, four members of Congress sent the U.S. Air Force a reprimand for its opaque approach to keeping the local community abreast of cleanup decisions at the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base in northern Michigan. The letter urged a commitment to “meaningful and substantive community engagement with Oscoda stakeholders.”

The Air Force may not have gotten the memo.

The next day, Air Force managers cut off a local advisory board member during a meeting who wanted to read a community letter advocating for more robust cleanup, and then ended the meeting without giving her a chance to make a comment.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2021/04/meeting-dust-up-ends-blitz-of-wurtsmith-cleanup-advocacy-on-sour-note.html

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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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http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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