[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Camp Lejeune

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Frightening levels of PFAS at Camp Lejeune
Who knew?

By Pat Elder
Military Poisons
September 26, 2022

The U.S. Marines have contaminated the Camp Lejeune region of North Carolina with extraordinarily high concentrations of  per-and poly fluoroalkyl substances, (PFAS). 

We’ve all seen the ads on TV about water contamination at Camp Lejeune.  The public is slowly accepting the notion  that the military is poisoning  us, especially after the Navy’s  contamination of Hawaii’s water.

Thousands of activists over the last 40 years have been urging the DOD and the VA to do the right thing by taking care of the multitude of men, women, and children they’ve poisoned at Camp Lejeune. Still, the recent settlement neglects many. The settlement only covers a handful of diseases attributed to the use of a relatively small number of deadly chemicals and it only takes care of those who served at Camp Lejeune from August 1953 through December 1987. The process is laid out in the PACT Act, a veterans’ healthcare and benefits bill signed by President Biden on Aug. 10.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.militarypoisons.org/latest-news/frightening-levels-of-pfas-at-camp-lejeune

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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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