[Military Environmental Forum] PFAS: "U.S. military bases delay cleanup of toxic 'forever chemicals'"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

U.S. military bases delay cleanup of toxic "forever chemicals”

By Austin Fast
USA TODAY
July 27, 2026

It's been almost five years since Brandi and Brad Hyatt found out the well at their home next to an Army base in Washington is contaminated with "forever chemicals.”

They started using bottled water for everything from making coffee to rinsing off toothbrushes. The couple even carted their two small children across town to bathe at a gym so they couldn’t accidentally swallow contaminated bathwater.

The Army installed a filter last year, but the well remains contaminated. The kids will be long grown by the time the military provides a permanent fix, now delayed until after 2042.

Hundreds of military bases have been putting off cleanup of toxic PFAS, or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, for years, according to a new USA TODAY analysis of military records. The latest round of delays, which the Pentagon posted in an obscure corner of its website in May, has pushed some deadlines out decades, or removed them altogether.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/07/26/toxic-pfas-cleanup-forever-chemicals-delays-military-bases-map-data/91026055007/

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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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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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