[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Tripler Army Medical Center in Hawai’i Evades PFAS Scrutiny"

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Tripler Army Medical Center in Hawai’i Evades PFAS Scrutiny
Its justifications for inaction stretch the bounds of scientific reason.

By Pat Elder
Military Poisons
February 8, 2026 

Tripler Army Medical Center, located approximately 4 miles northwest of downtown Honolulu, is contaminating the island of Oahu with PFAS. 

Federal law requires the Army to identify and disclose a comprehensive inventory of PFAS-containing products and applications that it routinely uses, stores, and discards. Aside from the fire station, the Army has closed its investigation of PFAS at the sprawling complex. 

As demonstrated at multiple Army facilities in Hawaiʻi, the Army is circumventing the intent of the law by narrowing its inquiry to a single PFAS application - firefighting foam, while ignoring dozens of other known PFAS uses, in industrial products, maintenance operations, and medical procedures.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.militarypoisons.org/latest-news/tripler-army-medical-center-in-hawaii-evades-pfas-scrutiny

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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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