Read the full article by Pat Elder (Military Poisons)
“The Navy is creating a narrative about PFAS in Hawaii by waging a sophisticated psychological campaign orchestrated to confuse the public while closing the books on huge swaths of perpetually contaminated land and water. We’ll look at the Navy’s Preliminary Assessment of Potential Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances National Priorities List Sites – December, 2023, Pearl Harbor-Hickham, Oahu.
The highly significant, yet relatively brief 238-page preliminary assessment was released to the public in mid-March, 2024 even though the State of Hawaii Department of Health reviewed the document in 2021.
The Navy began releasing PFAS preliminary assessments all over the country seven years ago. What took so long in Hawaii?
The Navy’s superficial study coincides with the Army’s report on PFAS in December, 2023, in which the Army glossed over contamination on eight bases while dismissing an additional eight bases from further PFAS-related scrutiny. Compelling evidence suggests the Army is prematurely shutting down PFAS investigations throughout Hawaii. Now we see the Navy doing the same thing.” …