[CPEO-MEF] "Pentagon Is Pressing to Bypass Environmental Laws ..."

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pentagon Is Pressing to Bypass Environmental Laws for War Games and Arms Testing

By FELICITY BARRINGER 
New York TImes
December 28, 2004


WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 - The Defense Department, which controls 28 million
acres of land across the nation that it uses for combat exercises and
weapons testing, has been moving on a variety of fronts to reduce
requirements that it safeguard the environment on that land.

In Congress, the Pentagon has won exemptions in the last two years from
parts of the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection
Act. It has sought in recent years to exempt military activities, for
three years, from compliance with parts of the Clean Air Act.

Also, the Pentagon, which controls about 140 of the 1,240 toxic
Superfund sites around the country, is seeking partial exemptions from
two laws governing toxic waste. And two months ago, it drafted revisions
to a 1996 directive built on a pledge "to display environmental security
leadership within Department of Defense activities worldwide." 

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/28/politics/28exempt.html

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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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