[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL: South Korean "Court orders release of information on U.S. military base pollution"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Court orders release of information on U.S. military base pollution


Korea Herald
June 16, 2016

A Seoul court ordered the South Korean government to release information about the level of pollution on the U.S. military base in Seoul on Thursday, ruling in favor of an association of environmental civic groups. 

The ruling by the Seoul Administrative Court comes nearly a year after civic groups, including Green Korea United and the Lawyers for a Democratic Society, filed a suit against the Environment Ministry to demand the result of the inspection be revealed to the public.

The Environment Ministry conducted on-site investigations of the alleged contamination at U.S. military bases across the country in May 2015, prior to the scheduled relocation of key military bases to Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, by 2017. 

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For the entire article, see
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20160616000895

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Lenny Siegel
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