water contamination

“We have work to do."

“My kids did not volunteer to be poisoned.”

“We were already in the process of putting people in hotels and taking them bottled water, and the Navy was still saying there was nothing wrong with the water.”

"I ask with all eyes and ears on you that you fix this, and you fix it honestly."

"[W]e did not have any testing that has revealed a source of the smell."

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

More than 16 percent of the drinking water wells tested near Fort Jackson during the past six years have shown contamination from a toxic chemical found in hand grenades used at the military installation to train soldiers, according to recently released federal data

Personnel at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam had been consuming drinking water that had been sanitized with chlorination tablets typically used in swimming pools, an Air Force spokesman

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

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