6,000 Sick? Pearl Harbor Fuel Leak Cover-Up? | JQJO

Two civilian workers, John Floyd and Nelson Wu, were indicted for providing false information to the Navy about a jet fuel spill at Pearl Harbor. This misinformation, regarding the amount of fuel leaked from a Red Hill storage facility, led the Navy to mislead the Hawaii Department of Health. The inaccurate reporting followed a May 2021 spill, six months before fuel contaminated the drinking water of 6,000 people. The indictments are a result of a 2022 Navy investigation which revealed shoddy management and human error. The Navy has since closed the aging fuel tanks.