EPA Responds to Citizen Comment on Alaska Burn Pits

EPA Responds to Citizen Comment on Alaska Burn Pits

  In response to joint public comment by CSWAB and Alaska Community Action on Toxics, EPA Region 10 is requiring Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) in Anchorage, Alaska to collect additional environmental information to determine if the long-delayed closure...
Communities Push for EPA Ban on U.S. Burn Pits Here at Home

Communities Push for EPA Ban on U.S. Burn Pits Here at Home

Photograph: EPA continues to permit Indiana’s Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center to open air burn and detonate as much as 109 million pounds of hazardous energetic waste every YEAR. Despite the availability of advanced alternative technologies, open burning...
EPA Set to Defer Cleanup of Alaska Burn Pits for Decades, Again

EPA Set to Defer Cleanup of Alaska Burn Pits for Decades, Again

Anchorage, ALASKA — For more than 40 years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has deferred cleanup and closure of a former hazardous waste burning area at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska. If approved, a pending  EPA permit will leave this...