[CPEO-MEF] REGULATION: Ft. Meade (MD) lawsuit

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Md. warns Army of lawsuit
State presses for deadline on Fort Meade pollution cleanup

By Timothy B. Wheeler
Baltimore Sun
August 20, 2008


Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler notified the Army Tuesday 
that the state plans to sue to get it to finish cleaning up groundwater 
and soil contamination at Fort Meade.

Ratcheting up a long-running dispute, Gansler sent the Army a notice of 
the state's intent to sue under federal pollution law, accusing the 
military of failing to comply with a year-old cleanup order from the 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The Army has been working for years, under supervision by the EPA and 
the state, to find and clean up pollution at the 5,400-acre base in Anne 
Arundel County stemming from past careless disposal of fuel and munitions.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/annearundel/bal-meade0820,0,736019.story


See also
Attorney General Announces Suit to Enforce Cleanup

By William Wan
Washington Post
August 20, 2008

The Maryland attorney general announced plans yesterday to sue the Army 
to enforce a federal environmental order to clean up pollution at Fort 
Meade.

For more than a decade, Environmental Protection Agency officials have 
detected contaminants, some known to cause cancer and other health 
problems, at Fort Meade and other military sites. Army, EPA and Maryland 
officials have been working for years to clean up the pollution.

Last year, the EPA issued an order saying that the dumped chemicals at 
Fort Meade might pose "imminent and substantial dangers to public 
health." The order came with deadlines to expedite the cleanup and gave 
the EPA leverage to force compliance. The Defense Department, however, 
resisted the order. And under executive branch policy, the EPA will not 
sue the military as it would a private polluter.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/19/AR2008081902625_pf.htmlREGULAT

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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