[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Congress opens door to more ‘forever chemicals’ contamination at military bases"

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Congress opens door to more ‘forever chemicals’ contamination at military bases

Environmental Working Group
December 8, 2025



WASHINGTON – The House today released an update to the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, for fiscal year 2026 that could result in more contamination by the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS at defense sites.

More pollution would increase long-term cleanup costs and undermine years of investment in safer alternatives to the toxic chemicals. The bill would cause these problems by allowing the Department of Defense to return to purchasing and using firefighting foams made with toxic PFAS.

But the same bill calls on the Pentagon to accelerate cleanup efforts and expand access to clean drinking water to more contaminated households. Yet Congress still fails to provide the DOD with the funding it needs for PFAS cleanups.


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For the entire release, see
https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/statement/2025/12/congress-opens-door-more-forever-chemicals-contamination-military

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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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