[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: "Questions linger about jet fuel leak into Maryland creek"

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Questions linger about jet fuel leak into Maryland creek
   
By Timothy B. Wheeler
Chesapeake Bay Journal
June 1, 2026

More than wo months after jet fuel contaminated Piscataway Creek at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, questions remain. It is still unclear how at least 22,000 gallons of the toxic liquid leaked from the sprawling air base near the District of Columbia, why it wasn’t caught sooner and where it may have gone.

Maryland officials, including the state’s congressional delegation, are pressing for answers. Its two U.S. senators and seven of its eight House members wrote to Air Force Secretary Troy Meink complaining of a lack of transparency about the incident. They contended there had been a “critical delay” by the base in providing full information to the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE).

“The Air Force only came clean about [the] fuel spill at Joint Base Andrews after it was detected in and around Piscataway Creek,” said Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), “and even then they failed to inform state officials of the full extent of the spill’s impact until … weeks later.”


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For the entire article, see
https://www.bayjournal.com/news/pollution/questions-linger-about-jet-fuel-leak-into-maryland-creek/article_1494255e-c20c-4a85-bef5-0666a640179e.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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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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