[CPEO-MEF] OCEANS: Navy chemical releases

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy Admits to Having Released Chemicals Known to Injure Infants' Brains


By Dahr Jamail
Truthout
October 17, 2016 

For decades, the US Navy, by its own admission, has been conducting war game exercises in US waters using bombs, missiles, sonobuoys (sonar buoys), high explosives, bullets and other materials that contain toxic chemicals -- including lead and mercury -- that are harmful to both humans and wildlife.

The Navy's 2015 Northwest Training and Testing environmental impact statement (EIS) states that in the thousands of warfare "testing and training events" it conducts each year, 200,000 "stressors" from the use of missiles, torpedoes, guns and other explosive firings in US waters happen biennially.

Sonobuoys, which weigh from 36 to 936 pounds apiece and many of which can contain up to five pounds of explosives, are dropped from aircraft and never recovered; they're called "expended materials." The Navy is planning to increase its sonobuoy use from 20 to 720 annually, according to its Northwest Training and Testing 2014 document. This steep increase could have devastating impacts for humans.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/38005-navy-admits-to-having-released-chemicals-known-to-injure-infants-brains

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Lenny Siegel
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