2018 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 00:06:12 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] DISPOSAL: "Air Force left hazardous waste in Idaho landfill - and needs to fix it, lawsuit says"
 
Air Force left hazardous waste in Idaho landfill - and needs to fix it, lawsuit says

BY CYNTHIA SEWELL AND NATE POPPING
Idaho Statesman
August 23, 2018 

Almost everyone agrees on this: Early last year, a shipment of hazardous waste was taken from Mountain Home Air Force Base to a municipal landfill on Simco Road.

But discussion of who’s at fault for the prohibited shipment has devolved into disagreements, pointed fingers and now, a lawsuit.

In the midst of it all, the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality is working out how the base and a contractor it hired will address the now-buried waste.



…

For the entire article, see
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/environment/article213666359.html

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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>
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