[Military Environmental Forum] GLOBAL: "US threatens to pull plug on Lajes Air Base [Azores, Portugal] contamination clean-up ..."

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

US threatens to pull plug on Lajes Air Base contamination clean-up, in spite of reports highlighting health risks …and in spite of undeniable cancer cluster on island 

BY  NATASHA DONN 
Portugal Resident
July 3, 2026

The United States has threatened to suspend environmental remediation work around the Lajes Air Base in the Azores once again, despite confidential Portuguese government reports warning that contamination from decades of military activity still poses environmental and potential public health risks.

According to a confidential 2025 report by Portugal’s National Laboratory for Civil Engineering (LNEC), obtained by Expresso, officials from the US Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) informed Portuguese counterparts during a videoconference on September 11, 2025, that they intended to reinstate a decision known as “NO-SIHHS” (“No Substantial Impact to Human Health and Safety”) – under which the US concludes that pollution around the base does not present a significant risk to people living or working nearby.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.portugalresident.com/us-threatens-to-pull-plug-on-lajes-air-base-contamination-clean-up-in-spite-of-reports-highlighting-health-risks/

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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
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
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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