[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: "[Florida] should deny Eglin [Air Force Base] hazardous waste permit renewal for munitions detonation"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DEP should deny Eglin hazardous waste permit renewal for munitions detonation 

By Enid Sisskin, 
Pensacola News Journal (FL)
April 27, 2020
CONNECT

Eglin Air Force Base is seeking to renew its Hazardous Waste Permit and is once again expecting a pass to continue contaminating our environment by using primitive, dangerous methods for disposal of waste munitions from Hurlburt Field, Tyndall Air Force Base, Pensacola Naval Air Station, and Navy Support Activity Panama City, as well as Eglin itself. 

These munitions and explosives (bombs, artillery shells, propellants, tactical missiles, rockets, pyrotechnics, igniters, cartridges, rounds, incendiaries such as napalm, land mines, flares and smoke canisters) travel the roads we all use across northwest Florida. Then a Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) permit allows nearly 9 million pounds of these toxic wastes to go up in smoke and come down in air and water pollution every year. 

After decades of technological progress, safer alternative technology is available and has been endorsed by the Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board and the National Academy of Sciences. 

Why isn’t the Department of Defense using it? 

…

For the entire column, see
https://www.pnj.com/story/opinion/2020/04/27/dep-should-deny-eglin-permit-renewal-munitions-detonation-guestview/3033180001/

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





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