[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Activists blast Air Force claim about Michigan veterans"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

‘A flat out lie:’ PFAS activists blast Air Force claim about Michigan veterans


By Garret Ellison
MLive (MI)
February 10, 2022

OSCODA, MI — Activists and experts are accusing U.S. defense officials of lying about whether veterans and their families drank toxic PFAS chemicals in the water at Wurtsmith Air Force Base before the installation closed in the early 1990s.

In a public outreach document, the U.S. Department of Defense claims to be ignorant of data showing Wurtsmith veterans were highly exposed to the toxic chemicals — a claim one former Michigan regulator who studied the base extensively characterized as a blatant falsehood.

“The DAF (Department of the Air Force) is not aware of data which would support the assertion that veterans and their families at Wurtsmith were drinking water with very high levels of PFAS,” defense officials wrote in the document, which was released in January.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2022/02/a-flat-out-lie-pfas-activists-blast-air-force-claim-about-michigan-veterans.html

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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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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