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The DoD has "used foam containing" PFAS chemicals "in exercises at bases across the country". The DoD, therefore, "risks the biggest liabilities" in relation to the use of PFAS chemicals according to Politico. [71] March 2018 The PFAS Expert Health Panel on PFAS submitted their commissioned report to the Australian government. [89]
U.S. Reps. Dan Kildee, D-Mich., and Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Penn., have introduced bipartisan legislation that would establish the Coordinator for PFAS-Impacted Defense Engagement240531141624123.pdf ...
The DoD acknowledges its role in creating the PFAS mess and, nominally at least, insists that it is taking steps to clean it up both on military bases and in the affected communities off-base.
“DoD plans to publish updated guidance in the next few months and will provide advance notice should department determine it will allow incineration of PFAS-containing materials at hazardous ...
The water in and around at least 126 U.S. military bases has been contaminated by high levels of PFASs because of their use of firefighting foams since the 1970s, according to a study by the U.S. Department of Defense. Of these, 90 bases reported PFAS contamination that had spread to drinking water or groundwater off the base. [137]
GenX is a Chemours trademark name for a synthetic, short-chain organofluorine chemical compound, the ammonium salt of hexafluoropropylene oxide dimer acid (HFPO-DA). It can also be used more informally to refer to the group of related fluorochemicals that are used to produce GenX.
The Defense Department has been transitioning about 1,500 facilities to fluorine-free alternatives and was supposed to stop using firefighting foams containing PFAS altogether by Oct. 1.
In late 2013, the US Geological Survey and the Environmental Protection Agency studied samples from untreated and treated water from the United States' utilities, where researchers had found traces of chemicals in the water of areas including Lawrence County and Morgan County, Alabama. [2]