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The mother of a Marine who drowned in a rip current off Okinawa in June 2021 has returned to the island to warn service members and others about the dangers posed by unpredictable seas. ....
In October 2019, the Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center (NMCPHC) produced a report detailing widespread, severe soil contamination at Camp Kinser, Urasoe City, concluding it posed a danger to the health of children and local national landscapers. The NMCPHC conducted surveys at sports fields, around clinics and next to an elementary school in November and December 2018, discovering contaminants in excess of US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) screening levels which included polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), total 2,3,7,8-TCDD TEQs as dioxins, and the pesticides, DDD and dieldrin. ....
In the weeks before the 2 September 2022 meeting in Tokyo between the Administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Michael S. Regan, and Minister of the Environment (MoE), Nishimura Akihiro, senior EPA staff repeatedly discussed PFAS and PCB problems occurring in Okinawa Prefecture.One agenda for an EPA meeting on 3 and 4 August included the topic “Handling sensitive issues including Okinawa base issues surrounding PFAS and PCBs.” Also on 3 August, an email from a senior EPA staffer advised that Regan be “properly prepared for press questions related to” the two issues. Another EPA document, titled “Japan Ministerial and Joint Statement Discussion”, features the subject “Sensitive Issues: Okinawa Base Related Issues on PCBs and PFAS”.The revelations are contained in 81 pages of internal emails and meeting agendas obtained from the EPA via the US Freedom of Information Act.Ultimately, the final Joint Statement released by the EPA and MoE omitted any me ....