[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: EWG: "Spending bill shortchanges defense communities hammered by PFAS pollution"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

News Release
Environmental Working Group
June 20, 2023

Spending bill shortchanges defense communities hammered by PFAS pollution

WASHINGTON – The House version of the Defense Department spending bill for Fiscal Year 2024 cuts spending to clean up contamination from “forever chemicals” and other toxic pollutants by 30 percent – from $1.6 billion to $1.1 billion. 

“More than 400 DOD installations and surrounding communities are contaminated by the toxic forever chemicals known as PFAS, and not one of these installations has been cleaned up,” said Scott Faber, EWG’s senior vice president for government affairs. “The DOD has already warned it could take decades to clean up these sites.”

Ultimately, Faber said, the Defense Department should bear responsibility for the funding shortfall for the Defense Environmental Restoration Program. 

“Congress gave the Defense Department what it asked for – which is the heart of the problem,” Faber said. 


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For the entire release, see
https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/2023/06/spending-bill-shortchanges-defense-communities-hammered-pfas

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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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