The Defense Department (DOD) has issued a new policy that seeks to boost its transparency on PFAS water testing results and cleanup efforts, while still maintaining personal privacy protections, in an attempt to reverse a clamp-down on the release of such data after regulators, the public and a senator raised concerns over the limitations. The new policy comes after Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), state and local agencies, and the public questioned DOD's withholding of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) private-well water testing information to affected communities, following DOD's interpretations of defense authorization bill language aimed at boosting transparency of testing data as instead limiting its release of such data.
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