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In June, chemical giant and PFAS manufacturer 3M settled a lawsuit, also consolidated in South Carolina, in which it agreed to pay more than 300 plaintiff communities a total $10.3 billion to fund ...
Jul. 9—New Mexico is relying on a new Environmental Protection Agency rule to pursue the Department of Defense for the costs of cleaning up PFAS contamination near several military installations ...
The military is the most common culprit named among the 168 water systems that pointed to a PFAS source and also reported contamination above limits the EPA set earlier this year, USA TODAY's ...
Early 2018 Department of Health & Human Services's Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) was about to publish its assessment of PFAS chemicals, with a focus on two specific chemicals from the PFAS class—PFOA and PFOS—that have "contaminated water supplies near military bases, chemical plants and other sites from New York ...
The Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act of 2022, known as the Honoring our PACT Act of 2022, or even more colloquially as "the PACT Act," is an Act of Congress that authorized $797 billion [1] in spending to significantly expand (the scope of benefits eligibility, for existing beneficiaries) and extend (benefits to newly-eligible ...
The Camp Lejeune water contamination problem occurred at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina, from 1953 to 1987. [1] During that time, United States Marine Corps (USMC) personnel and families at the base — as well as many international, particularly British, [2] assignees — bathed in and ingested tap water contaminated with harmful chemicals at all concentrations ...
Fort Sill, with 360,000 ppt, Vance Air Force Base, with 329,000 ppt, and Tinker Air Force Base, with 170,000 ppt, are further examples of Oklahoma military installations where the levels of PFAS ...
Trump says Israel should target Iran's nuclear sites, vows to return military base's Confederate name at N.C. town hall The Hill Most in new survey worried about election fraud in November