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This is a list of Superfund sites in Missouri designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
Military Superfund sites. Current U.S. Military installations and Formerly Used Defense Sites on the U.S. EPA Superfund contaminated sites listings. Contents
Early 2018 Department of Health & Human Services's Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) was about to publish its assessment of PFAS chemicals, with a focus on two specific chemicals from the PFAS class—PFOA and PFOS—that have "contaminated water supplies near military bases, chemical plants and other sites from New York ...
Toxic PFAS, known as 'forever chemicals,' are seeping from military sites into communities across the country.
This is the case on Oklahoma’s military bases. Altus Air Force Base, near the city of Altus, is among the military installations in the U.S. with the highest levels of PFAS — 1,150,000 parts ...
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Of these, 90 bases reported PFAS contamination that had spread to drinking water or groundwater off the base. [139] In 2022, a report by the Pentagon acknowledged that approximately 175,000 U.S. military personnel at two dozen American military facilities drank water contaminated by PFAS that exceeded the U.S. EPA limit.
Toxic and dangerous conditions at US military bases exposed — uncooked food, mold and busted air conditioning. Michael Kaplan. September 6, 2024 at 11:34 AM.