[CPEO-MEF] PFAS, DISPOSAL: Congress restricts incineration

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

News Release
Earthjustice
December 15, 2021

Earthjustice Applauds Inclusion of PFAS Incineration Provision in Final Passage of NDAA, Calls for Continued Action to Address PFAS Contamination
Provision will prohibit incineration of PFAS waste by the Department of Defense until it meets certain criteria. 


WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Congress passed the FY22 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to authorize defense spending for the upcoming fiscal year. Earthjustice supported provisions to address per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) pollution, particularly an amendment to prohibit incineration of PFAS waste by the Department of Defense (DOD) until it meets certain criteria. This amendment was included in the final NDAA.

Following passage of the bill, Healthy Communities Program Legislative Counsel Christine Santillana issued the following statement: 

“We thank Congress for taking this important step toward reducing the harm from PFAS incineration by prohibiting DOD from burning toxic PFAS waste until it takes specific actions to mitigate negative impacts. For too long, communities located near incinerators have lived with the damaging ​consequences. We thank Senator Shaheen and Representative Levin for championing this issue and securing bipartisan support for public health protections against PFAS despite this year’s challenging political process…."

For the entire release, see
https://earthjustice.org/news/press/2021/earthjustice-applauds-inclusion-of-pfas-incineration-provision-in-final-passage-of-ndaa-calls-for-continued

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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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