From: | Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Mon, 21 Oct 2024 11:21:12 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Michigan invokes new dispute with Air Force over Wurtsmith cleanup" |
Michigan invokes new dispute with Air Force over Wurtsmith cleanup By Garret Ellison mLive (MI) October 21, 2024 LANSING, MI — It’s déjà vu all over again. The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) has initiated another legal dispute with the U.S. Air Force over its compliance with a state law governing the cleanup of PFAS chemicals at the former Wurtsmith air base. The state, which has long struggled to exercise oversight of the military-led cleanup in Oscoda, invoked a new dispute on Oct. 8alleging that the Air Force is moving ahead with a new treatment system plan this year under the wrong state environmental law. Instead of monitoring a new interim treatment system’s ability to remediate ‘forever chemical’ pollution by testing where a groundwater plume enters nearby Van Etten Lake, the Air Force wants to test clean water where it discharges underground. … Aside from the sampling location, there is minimal practical difference … For the entire article, see https://www.mlive.com/environment/2024/10/michigan-invokes-new-dispute-with-air-force-over-wurtsmith-cleanup.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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