[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Legislation would establish online dashboard to track chemical cleanups at military installations"

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Legislation would establish online dashboard to track chemical cleanups at military installations 

By LINDA F. HERSEY
Stars and Stripes
July 2, 2025

WASHINGTON — Cleanups of cancer-causing chemicals by the Defense Department at hundreds of military installations across the nation would be tracked through a public dashboard and an “acceleration strategy” for higher risk sites would be monitored by lawmakers, according to newly proposed legislation. 

Reps. Jack Bergman, R-Mich., and Kristen McDonald Rivet, D-Mich., the bill’s sponsors, said the legislation will yield site-specific information about contamination from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances at more than 600 military sites and surrounding communities across the country. 

The Military PFAS Transparency Act instructs the Defense Department to improve disclosures about PFAS investigations and cleanups through enhanced public outreach and annual reports to Congress.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2025-07-02/military-installations-pfas-legislation-18318489.html


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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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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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