[CPEO-MEF] UXO Cleanup at Formerly Used Defense Sites

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

GREENING OF THE PENTAGON: THE 'UXO' IN YOUR BACK-YARD.


Richard Harris Smith
American Chronicle
December 18, 2006

Rachel Carson would have been proud.

In the half-century since her SILENT SPRING launched the modern 
environmental protection movement, the ideals of Saving the Earth have 
become as American as apple pie. Our kids, taught the importance of 
recycling from toddler-hood, dutifully place their plastic bottles in 
the right garbage cans. And politicians listen with rapt attention to 
community activists passionately dedicated to rescuing the most obscure 
endangered species, an unappealing lowly grey beetle no less than 
lovable pandas and orca whales.

It's a fine thing that so many people today feel so dedicated to 
rescuing our ecologically-challenged planet. And yet there are a few 
surprising lapses. One universal problem triggers no violent scientific 
debate, no fear of dire economic consequences, but still arouses little 
popular interest: Ms. Carson might have called it - Healing military 
scars to the earth. In less flowery Pentagon jargon: Scrapping the UXO 
in FUDS.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=18126

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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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