Pentagon Warns of ‘Decades-long’ Effort to Comply with PFAS Rule

E&E by Elie Borst

Washington, DC – One of the Department of Defense’s top environmental officials told lawmakers Tuesday it could take decades to get in compliance with EPA’s first-ever limits on “forever chemicals” in drinking water. Those limits, finalized last week, give water providers five years to bring PFAS contamination below the acceptable thresholds. “This is a sea change in terms of the way that the department needs to engage around this specific issue,” Brendan Owens, assistant secretary for energy, installations and environment, said during a House Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness hearing. 

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