2008 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:47:57 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: FBI North Chicago (IL) range
 
Environmental group loses FBI firing-range suit


By FRANK ABDERHOLDEN
Lake County News-Sun (IL)
September 20, 2008

The environmental group that was trying to close the FBI shooting range in North Chicago failed to make its case.

U.S. District Judge Ronald Guzman ruled this week that Blue Eco Legal Council failed to prove sufficient harm for them to have standing in court. The suit was filed in January.

Blue Eco of Northbrook filed suit in January, alleging that the FBI was discharging lead into Lake Michigan. Blue Eco sought an award of $20 million that was to be split between Alliance for the Great Lakes and the Natural Resource Defense Council.

"We're proud that everything we set out to prove, we proved," said Steven Pollack, executive director of Blue Eco. The judge basically said "there wasn't enough pollution."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/newssun/news/1174272,5_1_WA20_GUNRANGE_S1.article

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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