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Elissa Slotkin: “The Pentagon took a really big, long overdue step in…”

Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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September 16, 2024 PFAS Telephone Town Hall

Published | Video Starts at 06:16

So we've worked in a bipartisan way to push the Pentagon to clean up these communities, do right by these communities, passing laws that would hold their feet to the fire in both the Trump and Biden administrations. And this year, thankfully, The Pentagon took a really big, long overdue step in announcing that it will be implementing remedial groundwater cleanup at Oscoda, Grayling, and other bases across the country. which was a pretty major victory. But there's also been real movement on the non military sides of things. So the things that affect most people listening. (06:16–06:28)

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Asserts that the Pentagon has committed to groundwater cleanup at military bases affected by PFAS.

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