[CPEO-MEF] USA Today - Environmental Exemptions

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Military presses to exempt millions of acres from environmental laws 
States opposed; EPA's complaints were rejected 

By Peter Eisler
USA TODAY
October 14, 2004 

CAMP EDWARDS, Mass. - When soldiers from the Army National Guard show up
here for artillery training, they fire their howitzers indoors - on simulators.

The EPA ordered a halt to live artillery training at Edwards in 1997
because munitions chemicals were leaching toward the aquifer that
provides drinking water for all of Cape Cod - more than 500,000 people
in summer.

Now the restrictions here are the Pentagon's Exhibit A in a
controversial campaign for legislation that would exempt more than 20
million acres of military land from key facets of the Clean Air Act and
the two federal laws governing hazardous-waste disposal and cleanup. 

The top environmental officials of nearly every state oppose the
legislation, as do 39 state attorneys general. And the Bush
administration's own environmental officials have tried to limit the
exemptions plan.

...

for the entire article, see
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20041014/1a_dodexemtions14.art.htm

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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