Meanwhile, new contamination maps released by the health department raise new and troubling questions.

U.S. Navy fuel operations in and around Pearl Harbor were found out of compliance with environmental protection rules in 2019. 

It’s been a year since a major leak at the Red Hill fuel facility, and the fuel is still sitting in tanks 100 feet above a major drinking water source.

Seventeen people were hospitalized, children experienced seizures and pets died, federal health officials found.

Levels of diesel and oil are getting lower in the aquifer below the Navy’s fuel storage facility, the health department said.

The Navy said there are no indications of “system-wide impacts.”

Experts don’t know where the contamination may be moving. New detection wells could help.

The contamination crisis exposed how little regulators know about how groundwater – and fuel pollution – flow under the Red Hill facility.

The expansion of missile defense on Guam is part of several military projects planned or in progress for the Marianas archipelago.

The budget proposal “signals the administration’s support of our efforts to safely defuel and shut down Red Hill,” U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz said.