[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: "Red Hill [HI] Families Drank Antifreeze Too, Lawsuit Says"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Not Just Fuel: Red Hill Families Drank Antifreeze Too, Lawsuit Says
The Navy confirmed the presence of "icing inhibitor" in its fuel.

By Christina Jedra     
Honolulu Civil Beat (HI)
March 20, 2023
   
The Pearl Harbor area residents who drank and showered in fuel-tainted water in 2021 were also exposed to antifreeze, which the Navy used as a fuel additive, according to an amended lawsuit complaint filed on Monday.

More than 90,000 people are estimated to have been impacted when fuel from the Navy’s Red Hill fuel storage facility leaked into the drinking water supply. The Navy has admitted that jet fuel known as JP-5 contaminated the water but has not informed victims about additional ingredients. 

“While the United States eventually identified JP-5, the government failed to notify the Plaintiffs or warn about antifreeze and other additives to the JP-5 that are harmful in their own right,” the amended complaint states. 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.civilbeat.org/beat/not-just-fuel-red-hill-families-drank-antifreeze-too-lawsuit-says/

See also https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2023/03/21/red-hill-families-drank-antifreeze-fuel-contaminated-water-doh/


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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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