[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: PBS report with a focus on Pease AFB (NH)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Why PFAS are so impervious, and who is most at risk from the forever chemicals


By Miles O’Brient
PBS News Hour
December 9, 2021

The new infrastructure law contains $10 billion for cleaning up drinking water that has been contaminated by a specific group of man-made chemicals. But problems with "forever chemicals" go back decades, and are located in many places around the U.S. Miles O'Brien looks at the impact they've had in one community in New Hampshire, and how the U.S. Air Force is now dealing with its past use of them.

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For the entire story, see
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-pfas-are-so-impervious-and-who-is-most-at-risk-from-the-forever-chemicals

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Lenny Siegel
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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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