[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Navy won’t release PFAS data in Hawaii, citing national security concerns"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy won’t release PFAS data in Hawaii, citing national security concerns

By Pat Elder
Military Poisons
April 11, 2023

After the massive release of firefighting foam concentrate  on November 29, 2022 at the Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility, the EPA sent the Navy a Request for information letter on the status of the release of 1,300 gallons of the PFAS-laced toxins. 

The Navy has now responded to the EPA by refusing to release the video of the toxic spill or information on the specific concentrations of PFAS compounds in a variety of environmental media. See the peculiar file here. The DOD often publishes sensitive environmental memos without including essentials like a letterhead, the date, the author, or the responsible office. 

The Navy says it has provided a weekly Situation Report (SITREP) to the Hawai’i Department of Health (DOH) that satisfies the EPA’s request for public information. However, the Navy explained that the SITREP reports are considered to be “Controlled Unclassified Information, (CUI)” and are not publicly releasable.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.militarypoisons.org/latest-news/navy-wont-release-pfas-data-in-hawaii-citing-national-security-concerns

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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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