The U.S. Air Force is obligated to cover the cost of bringing clean drinking water to residents near a former base in New Hampshire contaminated with a fluorinated “forever chemical,” Gov. Chris Sununu (R) said.
The former Pease Air Force Base, in Portsmouth, N.H., is listed as a federal Superfund site by the federal Environmental Protection Agency because of a range of contamination, including high levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, in groundwater. The Air Force has undertaken decades of cleanup at the base, which closed in 1991.
One type of PFAS found there, called perfluorooctane sulfonic acid, ...