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Jamesia Blunt with the Office of Inspector General spoke to The Conversation about evaluating the fuel facility, conducting site visits, interviewing officials, and more.

When defueling of the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility begins, a two-person team will patrol around the facility looking out for fires, leaks and other emergencies.

Roger Forstner, the OSHA area director based in Honolulu, signed off on the violation notice and talked to The Conversation about what they found inspecting the AFFF system — aqueous film-forming foam.

The commander of the task force responsible for draining fuel from a storage tank facility that leaked jet fuel and poisoned Pearl Harbor’s tap water last year says he’s exploring ways to get community feedback.

A handful of service members have filed a lawsuit after their exposure to water contaminated by the 2021 Red Hill fuel leaks. The civil suit was filed last week against the U.S. Government after thousands of gallons of jet fuel leaked from the Navy’s Red Hill Bulk Storage Facility.

U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono joined The Conversation on Thursday to share the latest about military issues affecting Hawaiʻi and the broader Pacific.

A U.S. Navy Joint Health Services Workgroup is monitoring the health of service members and families who were once subjected to contaminated drinking water from Red Hill. HPR's Sabrina Bodon reports.

The military says cleanup of contaminated soil in the immediate spill site has been completed but it will continue to work with the EPA and state health officials on other aspects of the contamination.

The Navy has begun the process of flushing water from its Red Hill Shaft in an attempt to restore it as a source of drinking water for military communities. As HPR’s Scott Kim reports, Navy officials detailed the process to state legislators at a briefing Monday.

Heidi Nicholls is a postdoctoral fellow in sociology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She has been researching the working conditions during the construction of the Navy Red Hill fuel tanks in the early 1940s.