[CPEO-MEF] CLEANUP: Defense National Stockpile Center, Jefferson Hills, PA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Military messes: The Defense Department must clean up sites it polluted
  
THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
July 5, 2017

The federal government should promote economic development, not impede it. It should set an example for environmental stewardship, not flout rules it wants others to respect.

In a federal lawsuit, the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway alleges that the Defense Department has failed to clean up a 77-acre site in Jefferson Hills used during and after the Cold War to stockpile the raw materials needed for steel production. Now, the railway wants to use the land but can’t because of three ponds created there when the government hauled away the ore and generous amounts of topsoil to boot. The railway estimates that remediation work will cost at least $2 million, and it wants the government to foot the bill.

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For the entire editorial, see
http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/2017/07/06/Military-messes-The-Defense-Department-must-clean-up-sites-it-polluted/stories/201707060017

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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