[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "The Pentagon Quietly Delayed PFAS Cleanup Across Nearly 200 Military Sites"

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

The Pentagon Quietly Delayed PFAS Cleanup Across Nearly 200 Military Sites
The previously unreported delays push back efforts up to 20 years — including at sites where the chemicals have contaminated local drinking water.

By Anna Kramer and Joe Gould
NOTUS
June 12, 2026

The Defense Department has once again delayed the forever-chemical cleanup timelines for nearly 200 U.S. military locations — this time by an average of about a decade, according to a NOTUS analysis of previously unreported updates to Pentagon records.

The delays, which affect sites in 42 states as well as Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, go well beyond those first reported by The New York Times last year. The delays also include 15 sites where military PFAS contamination had already spread into nearby drinking-water systems at levels that federal regulators consider unsafe over a lifetime of exposure.

Sometime between mid-May and early June, the Department of Defense removed from its website the previous schedule for assessing and cleaning up forever chemicals at more than 700 sites.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.notus.org/climate-environment/pentagon-quietly-delayed-pfas-cleanup-nearly-200-military-sites

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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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