[CPEO-MEF] Toxic military in Hampton Roads (VA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

A TOXIC LEGACY: The military in Hampton Roads

Patrick Lynch and John M.R. Bull
Daily Press (VA)
June 10, 2007

While researching the region's unexploded munitions, Daily Press science 
and environmental reporter Patrick Lynch and John M.R. Bull decided to 
take a closer look at a longstanding yet little publicized problem: 
pollution on military bases. The military has long been considered the 
country's largest single polluter.

But 20 years have gone by since the Pentagon began to clean up the many 
and varied problems on active bases.

Bull and Lynch found that the years were spent mostly on study after 
study at the four Peninsula bases listed on the federal Superfund list 
as some of the nation's highest cleanup priorities.

...

For links to today's articles, see
http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-toxiclegacy-storygallery,0,6777002.storygallery?coll=dp-news-local-final

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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