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$2 billion cost to clean up water contamination at military bases, defense official says
Cleaning up and protecting U.S. drinking water from a class of toxic chemicals used in many household items could cost in the tens of billions of dollars nationally, including $2 billion for the Department of Defense alone, witnesses testified Wednesday before a House panel urging the federal government to move more quickly on the cleanup.
White House called toxins contamination ‘PR nightmare’
EPA testing from 2013 to 2015 found significant amounts of PFAS in public water supplies in 33 U.S. states. The finding helped move PFAS up as a national priority.
The withheld HHS study on base water contaminants is out — and it’s not good
In lab rats, exposure caused prenatal loss and organ failure, other chronic illnesses.
By Tara Copp, AP