Mark Favors, Direct Phone: (718) 427-0677 Email: markfavors@gmail.com
Courtney Bourgoin, courtney.bourgoin@sierraclub.org
Washington, DC-- Tomorrow at 10:00 am, Harlem resident and army veteran Mark A. Favors will testify before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on the military’s contamination of community drinking water systems surrounding military bases with per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (man-made chemicals known as PFAS).
Mr. Favors’ relatives, including seven military veterans, residing in polluted areas have been contaminated. 16 have been diagnosed with cancer.
Mark Favors released a preview of his testimony, stating:
“In my family there are at least seven military veterans who themselves, along with their spouses and children’s drinking water had been contaminated without their knowledge, while they were on active duty in the U.S. Army and/or deployed to Iraq.”
Mark’s full testimony can be viewed here.
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