[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Congress Members Question Pentagon’s Delay in ‘Forever Chemical’ Cleanup"

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Congress Members Question Pentagon’s Delay in ‘Forever Chemical’ Cleanup
A bipartisan group of lawmakers has asked the military to explain why cleanup of PFAS chemicals at bases nationwide has been pushed back.

By Hiroko Tabuchi
New York Times
October 22, 2025

Three dozen members of Congress, including two Republicans, asked Wednesday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth explain why the Pentagon has pushed back its cleanup of “forever chemical” contamination at nearly 140 military sites nationwide.

The New York Times reported last month that the Department of Defense had delayed its cleanup efforts of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known as PFAS, which are used in firefighting foam at military installations across the country. The chemicals are linked to serious diseases including cancer.

The delays extended the timelines for cleanup of contaminated water and soil by an average of five years, and in some cases by almost a decade.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/climate/pfas-forever-chemical-pentagon-cleanup-delay.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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