Two Democrats are pressing the Department of Defense for answers on delayed timelines for “forever chemicals” cleanups at more than 100 military sites.
Massachusetts Sens. Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to the Pentagon on Wednesday outlining their concerns over an updated timetable that pushed initial cleanup work at approximately 140 sites nationwide back five years, on average, from estimations completed under the Biden administration. The news was first reported by The New York Times.
“We urge the DOD to reverse its decision and restore the original remediation timetable, so our military families and neighbors will not have to worry about what additional years of exposure to PFAS will mean for their health,” Markey and Warren wrote in the letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
The Defense Department, which the Trump administration now calls the Department of War, did not respond to a request for comment.
