[CPEO-MEF] Air pollution board votes to protest legislation

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Montana
THE MISSOULIAN
Air pollution board votes to protest legislation
By SHERRY DEVLIN of the Missoulian
May 21, 2003

Urged by citizens to hold the military to the same standards it would
private citizens or industry, Missoula's Air Pollution Control Board
voted unanimously Tuesday to speak out against proposed legislation
exempting the Department of Defense from public health and environmental
laws.

"The military has a terrible, terrible record with regard to
environmental safeguards," said Harvey Bernstein, who testified at
Tuesday morning's hastily assembled Air Board meeting. "The military
should be held accountable to all our laws."

Board members, all but two of whom "attended" the meeting by speaker
phone, testified to the cost - in dollars and public health - of past
negligence at military installations.

Garon Smith, a chemist at the University of Montana, said he has had
"quite a career" trying to help clean up environmental problems caused
by the military.

This article can be viewed at:
http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2003/05/21/news/mtregional/news08.txt

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