[CPEO-MEF] REGULATION: Senate hearing

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Senate to hear about Army-EPA dispute today

By Justin Palk
Frederick News Post (MD)
September 18, 2008
	

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee is holding a hearing 
today on disputes between the Army and the Environmental Protection 
Agency over cleaning up toxic waste at sites in Maryland, Florida and 
New Jersey.

Fort Meade is one of the sites in question, and Maryland environmental 
regulators will be testifying, according to a statement from the office 
of Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Md. The hearing comes at the request of 
Cardin and his fellow Maryland Democrat Sen. Barbara Mikulski.

At first glance, it does not appear that this hearing will include 
discussion of disputes between the Army and the EPA and Maryland 
Department of the Environment over the cleanup of groundwater 
contamination at Fort Detrick's Area B.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/reporters_notebooks_display.htm?StoryID=80325


For Sen. Boxer's opening statement and (later) other documents, go to 
http://epw.senate.gov/public/

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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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