[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: "Supreme Court to hear dispute over disposal of Air Force munitions on Guam"

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[This case has national implications - LS]

Supreme Court to hear dispute over disposal of Air Force munitions on Guam
Environmentalists and the Trump administration are squaring off over the Air Force’s disposal of hazardous munitions that activists say threatens the island’s main water supply.

By Justin Jouvenal
Washington Post
March 9, 2026


The Supreme Court agreed Monday to wade into a dispute between environmentalists and the Trump administration over the Air Force’s disposal of hazardous munitions on a Guam beach that activists say threatens the island’s main water supply.

The justices took up an appeal by the government, which is seeking to overturn a lower court decision that required the Air Force to perform an environmental review as part of renewing its permit to burn or detonate unexploded ordnance on the U.S. territory in the Pacific Ocean.

The Air Force has been disposing of munitions on a northeastern stretch of the island since 1982, renewing its permit every three years with the Guam environmental authority. The military applied for its last permit in 2021, but it has yet to be approved following public concerns about pollution and contamination.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/09/supreme-court-guam-air-force/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




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