50 toxins used on military bases and their health impacts

EPA’s PFAS Stategic Roadmap

EPA’s New PFAS Analytic Tools

Addressing PFOS
and PFOA

This list identifies the most prevalent toxins used on military installations. The list was compiled from data supplied by ProPublica’s Bombs in Your Backyard series. The associated diseases were taken from PubChem of the National Institute of Health’s National Library of Medicine, and other sources.

See the list here.

On October 18, 2021, EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan announced the Agency’s PFAS Strategic Roadmap—laying out a whole-of-agency approach to addressing PFAS. The roadmap sets timelines by which EPA plans to take specific actions and commits to bolder new policies to safeguard public health, protect the environment, and hold polluters accountable. The actions described in the PFAS Roadmap each represent important and meaningful steps to safeguard communities from PFAS contamination. Cumulatively, these actions will build upon one another and lead to more enduring and protective solutions. For more information, visit this website.

The PFAS Analytic Tools are part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) cross-agency effort to address per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and make that work transparent. The tools are intended to provide states, tribes, federal partners, and the public with information on PFAS manufacture, release, and occurrence in the environment as well as facilities potentially handling PFAS. These tools combine multiple data sources so that the user can explore various PFAS data in a region, state, or community. This application does not include all PFAS data, information, or resources. For some of the data collections provided, EPA does not have requirements for the information to be reported on a national level. In those cases, areas that are more widely testing for and reporting occurrences of PFAS will generally have more data than areas collecting or reporting to a lesser extent. A tutorial on the use of this tool is available here.

Addressing Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS) and Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) Maureen Sullivan Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Environment, Safety & Occupational Health) March 2018. The DOD admits that 564 public and private drinking water systems in communities adjacent to US bases, including nine overseas, tested above the EPA's Lifetime Health Advisory of 70 ppt.