[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "EWG applauds Congress for tackling ‘forever chemicals’ in National Defense Authorization Act"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

NEWS RELEASE
Environmental Working Group
December 7, 2022 


EWG applauds Congress for tackling ‘forever chemicals’ in National Defense Authorization Act

WASHINGTON – The Environmental Working Group applauds Congress for including several provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, for fiscal year 2023 to tackle the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS. 

The NDAA is legislation that Congress passes each year to make changes to the policies and organization of U.S. defense agencies and to guide how military funding can be spent. The House and Senate have finalized text for the fiscal year 2023 NDAA. 

To tackle forever chemicals, the 2023 NDAA includes provisions that will:

	• Phase out military purchases of personal protective firefighting equipment containing PFAS
	• Instruct the DOD to award prizes for the development of PFAS-free protective gear 
	• Require the DOD to publish regular updates about PFAS-related research
	• Provide $20 million for an ongoing study on the impact of PFAS on defense communities’ health, conducted by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry  
	• Require the DOD to identify critical uses of PFAS and report on efforts to buy items without PFOA and PFOS, the two most notorious PFAS
	• Provide $1.2 billion for cleaning up contaminated military sites and $11 million for PFAS-related research. 

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For the entire release, see
https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/2022/12/ewg-applauds-congress-tackling-forever-chemicals-national

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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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