From: | Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Sun, 21 Jul 2024 21:51:11 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Air Force challenges EPA over PFAS cleanup plan order in Tucson, " AZ |
Air Force challenges EPA over PFAS cleanup plan order in Tucson by Tony Davis Arizona Daily Star July 21, 2024 The U.S. Air Force is contesting an Environmental Protection Agency order to produce a plan to clean up massive contamination by various PFAS compounds in groundwater underneath two Air Force-owned facilities near Tucson International Airport. The Air Force and EPA appear headed for a major, potentially prolonged legal struggle over EPA’s authority to require a cleanup plan and whether it’s feasible for the Air Force to produce that plan in EPA’s allotted time period, based on records the agencies released to the Arizona Daily Star on Friday. EPA issued its 23-page order in late May, citing the federal Safe Drinking Water Act as justification, plus a seven-page statement in July affirming and finalizing the order. The Air Force has sent two responses totaling nearly 40 pages this summer challenging the order. … For the entire article, see https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/air-force-challenges-epa-over-pfas-cleanup-plan-order-in-tucson/article_561d7216-340c-11ef-9c33-bbd64b350794.html — 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 | |
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