by ADC | Mar 17, 2019 | Base Redevelopment/ Environmental Cleanup, Congress/DoD, DC360, On Base
The Pentagon has been pushing the White House and Congress to ease clean water standards, according to the Military Times, citing a New York Times report. DOD faces costs of more than $2 billion to clean up PFAS-contaminated water on or around 126 installations. Sen....
by ADC | Mar 14, 2019 | Base Redevelopment/ Environmental Cleanup, DC360, On Base
Ivy Owen has left his position as executive director of the Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority in Arkansas. Since 2007, under Owen’s leadership, more than 2,600 new jobs were created, the Arkansas Colleges of Health Education was established at Fort Chaffee, 17...
by ADC | Mar 14, 2019 | Base Redevelopment/ Environmental Cleanup, DC360, On Base
The congressional delegation for Savannah, Ga., want Savannah to be the home of the new Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron within the Air National Guard, according to the Savannah Morning News… The Pikes Peak Community Foundation and the Security Water District...
by ADC | Mar 14, 2019 | Base Redevelopment/ Environmental Cleanup, Congress/DoD, DC360, Mission Support/Community Partnerships, On Base
New Mexico is suing the Air Force over contaminated water on and near Cannon and Holloman Air Force bases, the Air Force Times reported. “Today we begin holding them accountable,” New Mexico Environment Secretary James Kenney said when he announced the suit last...
by ADC | Mar 6, 2019 | Base Redevelopment/ Environmental Cleanup, Congress/DoD, DC360, Military Families, On Base
Lawmakers questioned DoD officials on the department’s long-delayed acknowledgement of PFAS-contaminated water on installations during a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee hearing. “To put it charitably: it is unclear why DoD feels justified in passing...
by ADC | Feb 25, 2019 | Base Redevelopment/ Environmental Cleanup, Congress/DoD, DC360, Installation Innovation Forum, On Base
DOD’s Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration Program (REPI) is using an authority Congress recently extended to enhance installation resilience, the office wrote in its newly released 2019 Report to Congress. “Protecting these lands using the REPI program...
by ADC | Feb 20, 2019 | Base Redevelopment/ Environmental Cleanup, DC360, Mission Support/Community Partnerships, On Base
Military installations make up $16.68 billion in economic activity in the Dayton, Ohio, area, according to a Dayton Development Coalition study, as reported by the Dayton Business Journal. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base accounts for almost 30,000 direct jobs and more...
by ADC | Feb 14, 2019 | Base Redevelopment/ Environmental Cleanup, Congress/DoD, DC360, On Base
In a plan released Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency declined to include clean water standards to address PFAS, the contaminant found in water near many installations and in other communities. Instead, the plan, which EPA called “historic” and...
by ADC | Feb 5, 2019 | Base Redevelopment/ Environmental Cleanup, Congress/DoD, DC360, On Base
The military needs to do more to clean up PFAS chemical contamination and, which DOD says is a problem at more than 400 installations, and stop using the chemicals, Rep. Dan Kildee (D-Mich.) wrote in a Military Times op-ed. Kildee represents the former Wurtsmith Air...