Environmentalists Warn DOD To Comply With New PFAS Disposal Mandates

Weeks after policymakers enacted new limits on the Defense Department’s (DOD) incineration of materials containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), environmentalists are suggesting they may sue the department in an effort to force it to comply with the new mandates. A coalition of groups sent a Jan. 10 letter to Defense Secretary Mark Esper calling on DOD to halt all incineration of materials containing PFAS until the military can prove stringent new destruction requirements contained in recently enacted defense law...