[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: FBI North Chicago (IL) range

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Environmental group loses FBI firing-range suit


By FRANK ABDERHOLDEN
Lake County News-Sun (IL)
September 20, 2008

The environmental group that was trying to close the FBI shooting range 
in North Chicago failed to make its case.

U.S. District Judge Ronald Guzman ruled this week that Blue Eco Legal 
Council failed to prove sufficient harm for them to have standing in 
court. The suit was filed in January.

Blue Eco of Northbrook filed suit in January, alleging that the FBI was 
discharging lead into Lake Michigan. Blue Eco sought an award of $20 
million that was to be split between Alliance for the Great Lakes and 
the Natural Resource Defense Council.

"We're proud that everything we set out to prove, we proved," said 
Steven Pollack, executive director of Blue Eco. The judge basically said 
"there wasn't enough pollution."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/newssun/news/1174272,5_1_WA20_GUNRANGE_S1.article

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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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