[CPEO-MEF] PFAS, PERCHLORATE: "Resistance builds against New Mexico’s new toxic nightmare"

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Castelion’s ‘Project Ranger’ Solid Rocket Motor Plant
Resistance builds against New Mexico’s new toxic nightmare

By Pat Elder
Military Poisons
November 10, 2025

The citizens of Sandoval County, New Mexico face a defining and dangerous moment. Castelion Corporation’s plan to build a solid rocket motor and missile assembly plant on the West Mesa near Rio Rancho - if allowed to proceed - will likely endanger the community with highly mobile, persistent, and health-damaging chemicals for generations. 

Solid-propellant manufacture and testing commonly involve powerful oxidizers, substances that help fuels burn, such as ammonium perchlorate (AP) and powdered aluminum and aluminum oxides. A range of toxic volatile organic solvents will also be used. 

Routine firefighting at similar facilities have used extraordinarily toxic PFAS in firefighting foams, although it would be a great travesty and miscarriage of justice if Castelion used PFAS-based aqueous film-forming foams, (AFFF) at Rio Rancho. We must be cognizant of the state’s horrible experiences at Cannon AFB, Holloman AFB, Kirtland AFB, and the White Sands Missile Range. These facilities have severely poisoned local communities with PFAS and a host of toxins. 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.militarypoisons.org/latest-news/castelions-project-ranger-solid-rocket-motor-plant

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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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