[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Joint Base Andrews (MD)

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

PFAS from JB Andrews is contaminating the soil, air, dust, groundwater, and surface water in Prince Georges County, MD
The Air Force wants to help us understand PFAS

By Pat Elder 
Military Poisons
April 24, 2025

"Joint Base Andrews remains committed to sound environmental stewardship and to taking care of our people and the communities in which we serve.”

The Air Force manipulates the public

The Air Force has chosen to engage contaminated communities like Prince George’s County, Maryland in three ways: through the establishment of a Restoration Advisory Board, through  community “town hall” meetings that provide community members the to participate in a “Q & A” sessions, and through highly scripted “community conversations.”  

The Air Force tightly controls the agenda and the narrative at all three kinds of these civic engagements.  An Air Force Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) is a regularly held community forum made up of  Air Force representatives, regulatory agencies, and the local community members. The agenda and public releases regarding the meetings concerning environmental cleanup efforts are controlled by the Air Force. 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.militarypoisons.org/latest-news/pfas-from-jb-andrews-is-contaminating-the-soil-air-dust-groundwater-and-surface-water-in-prince-georges-county-md


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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
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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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