Re: [CPEO-MEF] "U.S. seeking looser environmental laws"

["Stella Bourassa" <Stellalogic@cfl.rr.com>]

"The Pentagon opposes having to remove unexploded ordnance from its
operational ranges. It also wants to delay cleanups until after
contamination spreads beyond military boundaries."

And who will pay to find out such facts?  If this is not the most insane
and, dare I say, asinine reasoning I"ve ever heard?!  Who is running the
Pentagon?  Do they 'just' not know or are they 'just' not believing or do
they ridicule and disregard all the research by those paid and unpaid-UXO's
CAUSE contamination that affects the health and welfare of the environment
and human beings or am I being to 'Polly-annish' to believe that those in
the Pentagon do 'care' about humans and the environment?

So let me summarize this by my 'reasoning skills'-the Pentagon is not
protecting our men and women who are protecting us (and please no emails
from the dangers of removing UXO's-EOD personnel are very 'upfront' about
such dangers), they either do not believe or are disregarding the
contamination issues.  They also do not care about the additional costs
incurred AFTER contamination 'goes offsite' nor the fact that it is now
affecting non-military personnel-oh wait a minute, if they do not care about
the military personnel who they 'are over', gee, golly, why would I even
start to think they would care about the non-military personnel?  I must
have had a lapse in my 'reasoning skills'.  They would rather continue to
'make messes they have no intention of cleaning up' because at some point a
base will go into BRAC status and they are hoping to 'pass the buck-opps I
mean bill' to those who might 'buy' it.  Is my summation off?

Stella

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lenny Siegel" <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
To: "Military Environmental Forum" <military@list.cpeo.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 5:59 PM
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] "U.S. seeking looser environmental laws"


> U.S. seeking looser environmental laws
>
> By JOHN HEILPRIN
> Associated Press (Monterey Herald)
> March 2, 2005
>
> WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is asking Congress to amend three
> environmental laws to reduce their impact on military ranges after
> failing to win the changes last year.
>
> Administration officials circulated among federal agencies their
> proposed language for changing the laws in a Jan. 6 document obtained by
> The Associated Press. The language calls for the same changes that
> stalled in Congress last year.
>
> Defense Department officials want the Clean Air Act amended so that any
> additional air pollution from training exercises wouldn't have to be
> counted for three years in the state plans for meeting federal air
> quality standards.
>
> The document says that under the current law "it is becoming
> increasingly difficult to base military aircraft near developed areas."
>
> Other changes sought are in the Superfund and the Solid Waste Disposal
> Act. The Pentagon opposes having to remove unexploded ordnance from its
> operational ranges. It also wants to delay cleanups until after
> contamination spreads beyond military boundaries.
>
> ...
>
> For the entire article, see
>
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/politics/11033501.htm
>
> -- 
>
>
> Lenny Siegel
> Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
> c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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