[CPEO-MEF] REGULATION: States challenge Pentagon

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

States Accuse Pentagon Of Threats, Retaliation
Allegations Arise in Base Cleanup Hearing

By Lyndsey Layton
Washington Post
September 19, 2008

Environmental officials from several states that have tried to force the 
Pentagon to clean up polluted military sites say the Defense Department 
has retaliated by reducing or withholding federal oversight dollars due 
them.

A group representing state environmental officials says California, 
Colorado, Alabama, Ohio and about a dozen other states have been 
pressured by the Pentagon to back off the oversight of cleanup at 
polluted military sites.

"In the worst-case scenarios, the Department of Defense is intimidating 
a state environmental agency into not pursing enforcement," said Steve 
Brown, executive director of the Environmental Council of States.

The disclosures came during a Senate hearing yesterday on the Pentagon's 
refusal to follow final orders from the Environmental Protection Agency 
to clean up three military bases: Fort Meade in Maryland, Fort McGuire 
in New Jersey and Tyndall Air Force Base in Flori

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For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/18/AR2008091803435.html

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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
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