Our Land: New Mexico’s Environmental Past, Present and Future

NM Environ Sec. James Kenney on PFAS Efforts (Full Intvw.)

Season 4 Episode 15 | 18m 44s  | Video has closed captioning.

NM's environmental regulators learned from the Air Force in 2018 that it had contaminated local waters with PFAS from fire fighting foams used at Cannon and Holloman Air Force bases. Environment Dept. Secretary James Kenney discusses the status of the clean-up as well as efforts to get the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to set federal pollution standards for these toxic chemicals.