[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Navy report on PFAS at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii comes up short"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy report on PFAS at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii comes up short
Preliminary Assessment closes the door on future scrutiny at many sites.

By Pat Elder 
Military Poisons
March 31, 2024

The Navy is creating a narrative about PFAS in Hawaii by waging a sophisticated psychological campaign orchestrated to confuse the public while closing the books on huge swaths of perpetually contaminated land and water. We’ll look at the Navy’s Preliminary Assessment  of Potential Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances National Priorities List Sites - December, 2023, Pearl Harbor-Hickham, Oahu.

The highly significant, yet relatively brief 238-page preliminary assessment was released to the public in mid-March, 2024 even though the State of Hawaii Department of Health reviewed the document in 2021. 

The Navy began releasing PFAS preliminary assessments all over the country seven years ago. What took so long in Hawaii?

The Navy’s superficial study coincides with the Army’s report on PFAS in December, 2023, in which the Army glossed over contamination on eight bases while dismissing an additional eight bases from further PFAS-related scrutiny. Compelling evidence suggests the Army is prematurely shutting down PFAS investigations throughout Hawaii.  Now we see the Navy doing the same thing. 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.militarypoisons.org/latest-news/navy-report-on-pfas-at-pearl-harbor-hawaii-comes-up-short

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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
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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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