pfas

The number of military installations with known contamination or suspected discharges of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, continues to rise, according to an environmental advocacy group keeping tally based on information obtained from the Defense Department

Congress has reached a deal on a spending bill that would require the military to stop using firefighting foam containing toxic chemicals linked to cancer, but would abandon efforts to place stronger regulations on the chemicals

The clock is ticking, because the study results will be thrown off as the chemical blood level in participants decreases over time.

"I've lost my patience. With these environmental harms, you have aspects of corruption that we need to … aggressively and gladly litigate."

"We think there's probably more installations than that ... We found that we undercounted within some of the (National) Guard sites"

"It makes no sense for the DOD to employ a screening level that would potentially result in human health harm"

"All of the other demonstrations remove PFAS from the water through filtration. Our method actually destroys PFAS"

The price tag to clean up contaminated water sources at all military installations is likely to climb higher than the $2 billion original cost estimate, the Pentagon said Thursday

New Mexico Environment Secretary James Kenney says the Air Force has not come up with an acceptable schedule or long-term plan to clean up contamination of the groundwater at Cannon and Holloman Air Force bases

The U.S. Air Force is telling the state of Michigan to take a regulation designed to severely limit toxic PFAS chemicals in the environment and shove it

Members of Congress have created a task force to help constituents nationwide who have contended with drinking water contaminated by chemicals used on military bases