DOD Cites Existing PFAS Destruction Work In Lieu Of Formal Testing Program

The Defense Department (DOD) is telling Congress it does not need to set up a formal program to pilot-test non-incineration technologies to destroy PFAS because it is already demonstrating dozens of such technologies under existing research programs, responding to defense authorization report language that required DOD to weigh such a program. “Based on DoD’s progress in developing, testing, and validating non-incineration PFAS destruction technologies and the fact that DoD has an operational demonstration and validation program, the Department does not...