May 12, 2015 | issues
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved the Louisiana Military Department’s recommendation to use a type of incinerator (Contained Burn System) to dispose of 15 million pounds of M6 propellant and 320,000 pounds of Clean Burning Igniter at Camp...
Mar 30, 2015 | issues
After it was reported that more than 600 service members suffered from chemical exposure in Iraq, the undersecretary of the Army issued an apology this week. The scandal goes deeper with its lack of proper medical treatment for these service members. by Andrew Emett,...
Feb 21, 2015 | issues
Recently-released test results reveal that old hazardous waste disposal sites inside Badger Army Ammunition Plant are continuing to impact groundwater, prompting area residents to ask for a more proactive approach to cleanup and improved public outreach. Citizens for...
Jan 19, 2015 | issues
A broad coalition of 71 social and environmental justice organizations from across the U.S. is calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to stop the proposed open air burning of 15 million pounds of abandoned M6 propellants at Camp Minden, Louisiana. In a...
Dec 5, 2014 | issues
U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin announced today that a provision in the National Defense Authorization Act will transfer 1,553 acres of former Badger Army Ammunition Plant lands to the Ho-Chunk Nation for prairie and grazing. The bill was passed by the U.S. House of...
Nov 20, 2014 | issues
In the face of staggering declines of monarch butterflies, CSWAB has joined leading monarch scientists and ecologists and more than 200 organizations and businesses in urging Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell to protect Monarch butterflies under the Endangered...
