[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Pentagon Agrees to End Last Challenged Contract to Burn PFAS"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pentagon Agrees to End Last Challenged Contract to Burn PFAS
• Environmental groups challenged legality of three contracts
• Pentagon to create public website to flag future awards

By Pat Rizzuto
Bloomberg Law 
August 31, 2023


The Pentagon and environmental groups have asked a federal court to approve a settlement ending the last of three challenged military contracts to incinerate materials contaminated with PFAS.

The proposed settlement, filed on Thursday with the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, would terminate a contract the Defense Logistics Agency awarded in 2019 to Heritage Environmental Services. 

The defense agency tasked Heritage with incinerating aqueous film forming foam (AFFF)—a type of fire suppressant that uses per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)—along with PFAS-contaminated soils, sludge, and other materials in specially permitted incinerators.

…

For the entire article, see
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/pentagon-agrees-to-end-last-challenged-contract-to-burn-pfas

—

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
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

_______________________________________________
Military mailing list
Military@lists.cpeo.org
http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org