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 Stories About: Department of Defense AND toxics AND United States
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To Clean Up or Not to Clean Up ... We're Still on Defense
U.S. Defense Department fighting EPA orders to clean up Superfund sites |
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30 Jun 2008 |
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| Posted at 8:17 AM on 30 Jun 2008 Defying environmental law, the U.S. Defense Department has resisted repeated orders lately from the U.S. EPA to clean up some of the nation's most contaminated places. The DoD/EPA standoff has turned into a bureaucratic pissing match wherein the EPA has asserted its authority to order and oversee cleanup of ultra-polluted Superfund si ... |
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| Topics: Department of Defense, news, politics, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics) |
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All That He Can Be
Craig Williams took on the Pentagon to stop chemical-waste burning |
Michelle Nijhuis |
27 Apr 2006 |
Main Dish |
| "We're a little outnumbered, and a little outspent," says Craig Williams, "but we've turned around decisions by the biggest bureaucracy on the planet." Williams, founder of the nonprofit Chemical Weapons Working Group and a cabinetmaker by trade, has been fighting for more than two decades to ensure that the U.S. military disposes of chemical weapons safely. C ... |
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| Topics: Department of Defense, toxics, United States (all these topics) |
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