[CPEO-MEF] "Congress’ PFAS protection rollbacks betray service members and defense communities"

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Congress’ PFAS protection rollbacks betray service members and defense communities

By Jared Hayes and Scott Faber
Environmental Working Group
AUGUST 27, 2025

Some members of Congress are pushing a sweeping repeal of hard-won safeguards for service members, veterans and defense communities against the widespread health and environmental harms of the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS
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The rollback would deliberately gut the very protections intended to shield the people who put their lives on the line for the U.S. 

The reversals are part of the pending National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, for fiscal year 2026. If enacted, they would undo a ban on purchasing and use of firefighting foam made with PFAS and set a new low for funding of toxic site cleanups, among other changes.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/2025/08/congress-pfas-protection-rollbacks-betray-service-members-and-defense

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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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