[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "Congress Hands the Pentagon a Free Pass ..."

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Congress Hands the Pentagon a Free Pass on PFAS
2026 National Defense Authorization Act reverses key safeguards—leaving states to fight alone.

By Pat Elder 
Military Poisons
November 19, 2025

The U.S. Senate and House have now passed their versions of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2026. The next step is a conference committee to reconcile differences before the bill goes to the President. 

But on PFAS, the matter is already settled. Both versions contain powerful, dangerous, and reckless provisions, inserted at the Pentagon’s urging, that will weaken what little protection existed for human health and the environment from the U.S. military’s well-documented PFAS contamination. We’ll examine two sections from each bill to understand this legislative terrorism. The DOD is off the hook. 

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Bottom line up top: PFAS battles must be waged in the handful of states that are still in play.  At the federal level, the Pentagon’s influence prevails—Actum est de re, the matter has been settled. 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.militarypoisons.org/latest-news/congress-hands-the-pentagon-a-free-pass-on-pfas

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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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http://www.cpeo.org
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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