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Ducking Donald
U.S. forest official will not be jailed over fish-killing flame retardant |
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28 Feb 2008 |
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| Posted at 3:09 PM on 28 Feb 2008 The U.S. Forest Service turned in a court-ordered environmental analysis of a fish-killing flame retardant 2 1/2 years late, and only after the agency's top official was threatened with incarceration for contempt of court. But the USFS did ultimately conduct the environmental review of ammonium phosphate -- which was dropped on an Oregon fire in 2002 and subsequently killed ... |
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