[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Forthcoming Book: "Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America"

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Military’s use of toxic ‘forever chemicals’ leaves lasting scars

BY SHARON UDASIN AND RACHEL FRAZIN 
The Hill
April 10, 2025

This excerpt comes from the forthcoming book “Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America,” which details how a set of toxic compounds have devastated entire communities across the country. It has been edited for length and clarity.

Colorado Springs and its suburbs in El Paso County are surrounded not only by natural wonders like the Garden of the Gods, a massive park filled with red rock formations, but also several military installations, including Peterson Space Force Base, the US Air Force Academy, and the US Army’s Fort Carson.

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Members of the Favors family had no idea that the firefighting foam being used on nearby bases contained PFAS, or that those chemicals were dangerous, or that they were leaching into the local water supply.

But the military, like industry, already had some indication of AFFF’s toxic effects decades before such information became public knowledge.

…

For the entire article, see
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5237713-military-forever-chemicals-poisoning-the-well/


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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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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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