[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Defense Department delayed PFAS cleanup, ignored health risks, Inspector General says"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

News Release
Environmental Working Group
July 27, 2021

Defense Department delayed PFAS cleanup, ignored health risks, Inspector General says


WASHINGTON – The Defense Department responded too slowly to the threats posed to military service members by the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS and is failing to track the health risks facing military firefighters, according to DOD’s inspector general. 

The IG also found that DOD has failed to take an “enterprise wide” approach to PFAS that reduces all needless exposures to the chemicals.

“This report should alarm our service members and their families,” said Scott Faber, EWG’s senior vice president for government affairs. “DOD understood the health risks posed by toxic PFAS for decades but failed to act to protect service members.

“Now DOD is letting down our service members again by failing to address all sources of PFAS and by failing to make sure our military firefighters get the care they need,” he added

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For the entire release, see
https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/2021/07/defense-department-delayed-pfas-cleanup-ignored-health-risks


For the DOD press release and a link to the full report, go to
https://www.dodig.mil/reports.html/article/2705951/evaluation-of-the-department-of-defenses-actions-to-control-contaminant-effects/

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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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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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