Japan’s Ministry of Defense has rejected a request from Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki to fund new filters designed to remove PFAS from a major water purification plant in central Okinawa.

Chatan town cannot immediately satisfy a request for additional water from a neighboring Marine Corps base that detected elevated levels of “forever chemicals” in its storage tank, according to a town official.

In New Mexico, state regulators have blamed lack of federal oversight for PFAS contaminating groundwater around the Cannon and Holloman Air Force bases.