The U.S. Military Plans to Keep Incinerating Toxic Firefighting Foam, Despite Health Risks

Summary: The U.S. military is moving ahead with plans to collect and destroy unused firefighting foam that contains the hazardous chemicals PFOS and PFOA. But in trying to solve one environmental problem related to these persistent chemicals,which have caused massive drinking water contamination, the Defense Department may be creating another. More than 3 million gallons of the foam and related waste have been retrieved from U.S.