[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: Camp Edwards pytotechnic grenades

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Regulators: Cape base can train with grenade


George Brennan
Cape Cod Times (MA)
March 27, 2010

CAMP EDWARDS - National Guard soldiers training at Camp Edwards have a 
little more pop in their arsenal.

This week, the federal Environmental Protection Agency signed off on 
allowing a reformulated pyrotechnic hand grenade to be used at the base. 
The M116A1 grenades don't contain any perchlorate, a chemical common in 
fireworks and munitions that is one of the toxins being cleaned up from 
groundwater at the Massachusetts Military Reservation.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100327/NEWS/3270320/-1/NEWSMAP

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