The Air Force’s Disturbing PFAS Decision

This month, representatives of the U.S. Air Force in Tucson made the stunning announcement that it would not take responsibility to clean up dangerous “forever chemicals” that have been leaching from the Morris Air National Guard (ANG) Base into public water supplies for decades. The announcement is in defiance of an U.S. EPA order issued to the Air Force in May to clean up PFAS — a class of chemicals that have been found to threaten human health even in tiny amounts — in order to protect neighboring communities and the imminent danger to the public water supply for the whole of Tucson. It is a disappointing and irresponsible turn of events in our community.