[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "FL lawmakers propose ban on toxic firefighting foam linked to water and soil contamination"

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

FL lawmakers propose ban on toxic firefighting foam linked to water and soil contamination

by Laura Cassels
Florida Trident 
January 26, 2026

TALLAHASSEE, FL – State lawmakers are weighing a ban on a highly effective but toxic foam widely used to suppress flammable-liquid fires that is leaking into water supplies and sickening people, with firefighters at the forefront of the worldwide battle with “forever chemicals.”

Due to public health and environmental concerns, the foam was banned in the United Kingdom last year and in Australia in 2018. Several U.S. states, including New York and Michigan, ban most uses of it. The U.S. Department of Defense is phasing it out this year.

The effort this year by lawmakers to ban the substance comes years after state and federal findings that numerous military installations, airports and firefighter training centers in Florida are riddled with forever chemicals, called PFAS (which stands for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), in water and soil. That is because the toxic firefighting foam, which is very good at its job, has for decades been routinely sprayed at those places in tests, in training, and when big machines such as jets catch fire.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.wmnf.org/florida-lawmakers-propose-ban-toxic-firefighting-foam-water-soil-contamination/

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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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