{"id":135924,"date":"2023-01-13T13:05:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T18:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=135924"},"modified":"2023-01-13T12:48:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T17:48:10","slug":"specifications-for-fire-fighting-foam-excludes-forever-chemicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=135924","title":{"rendered":"Specifications for fire-fighting foam excludes &#8216;forever chemicals&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/firefighters_after_fire.1800x1200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-99611\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/firefighters_after_fire.1800x1200-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/firefighters_after_fire.1800x1200-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/firefighters_after_fire.1800x1200-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/firefighters_after_fire.1800x1200-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/firefighters_after_fire.1800x1200.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Department of Defense provided new specifications for the Aqueous Film-Forming Foam (AFFF). Navy veterans, who were stationed aboard ships, and other military specialties that have to put out fires, are familiar with this foam. Now the new system should be more &#8220;environmentally friendly&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From the military Times:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Defense Department is officially requiring any new firefighting foam it buys to be made without per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as PFAS, toxic chemicals associated with a host of health issues and known to have contaminated the ground water of dozens of military bases.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon published a new military specification on Jan. 6 \u2014 part of the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act \u2014 which also required the department to stop buying PFAS-containing aqueous film-forming foam by October, with another year to eliminate its use entirely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe DoD invented AFFF and for decades was one of the world\u2019s most prolific PFAS polluters,\u201d Melanie Benesh, vice president for government affairs at the Environmental Working Group, said in a press release Thursday. \u201cThe new standard marks critical progress toward finally eliminating this source of PFAS contamination from military installations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The EWG published a report in December of DoD water analysis data, revealing more than two dozen bases that have contaminated groundwater well above Environmental Protection Agency standards \u2014 just some of more than 700 bases known to have some level of contamination.<\/p>\n<p>A Pentagon PFAS task force stood up in 2019 has been charged with assessing the extent of the contamination, searching for fire-fighting foam alternatives and leading efforts to clean up bases.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Military Times provides additional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2023\/01\/13\/new-dod-specs-for-fire-fighting-foam-now-free-of-forever-chemicals\/\">information<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Defense provided new specifications for the Aqueous Film-Forming Foam (AFFF). Navy veterans, who &hellip; <a title=\"Specifications for fire-fighting foam excludes &#8216;forever chemicals&#8217;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=135924\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Specifications for fire-fighting foam excludes &#8216;forever chemicals&#8217;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}