[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: "Va. Tech group to scrutinize Radford Arsenal [VA] pollution"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Va. Tech group to scrutinize Radford arsenal pollution

by Tonia Moxley 
Roanoke Times (VA)
April 19, 2017

BLACKSBURG - A small group met in a chilly drizzle at Virginia Tech Wednesday to announce a new effort to scrutinize the Radford Army Ammunition Plant and pollution in the New River Valley.

Students have started a new chapter of the North Carolina-based Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League called Citizens for Arsenal Accountability to “put pressure – not a negative pressure” on arsenal officials to “get accountability and transparency” on pollution released by the military munitions producer, said Drew White, a senior English major from Williamsburg who is involved in the group.

“We don’t want pollution in our air; we don’t want it in our soil; we don’t want it in our food,” White said. “The goal is to involve the community. … We want everybody to come together.”

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For the entire article, see
http://www.roanoke.com/news/local/blacksburg/va-tech-group-to-scrutinize-radford-arsenal-pollution/article_f75d6068-d881-5592-81ac-f709e8edb38e.html

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