Current Issues
Lawsuit Challenges Navy Firing Weapons into the Potomac
WASHINGTON, DC (June 21, 2023) – Potomac Riverkeeper Network (PRKN) and NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) filed a lawsuit today against the U.S. Navy in federal court in Maryland over violations of the Clean Water Act. The U.S. Navy uses a long stretch of the...
CSWAB Shares New Public Records on Badger Army Groundwater Plans
CSWAB recently received the following documents through an Open Records Request to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Because we wanted to share these records with you as soon as possible, we have not had the opportunity to review them and have no comment...
Wisconsin Groundwater Standards Critical for Military Base Cleanup
In order to assure that Wisconsin residents, military base workers and service members are fully and promptly informed of potential risks to public health, groundwater standards recommended by state health officials should be immediately adopted by the state...
National Call to End PFAS/Toxic Burning in Louisiana
In a joint national letter today, 81 environmental and social justice organizations from across the U.S. and its territories are urging the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and U.S. EPA to immediately halt all open air burning and open detonation...
Badger Advisory Board Members Urge WDNR to Improve Environmental Testing on Former Army Lands
WISCONSIN – Representatives of local government, impacted residents and environmental groups serving on the Badger Restoration Advisory Board have co-signed a formal resolution calling on the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) to order improved testing...
PFAS Exposure Through Munitions Burning and Detonation
by Lauren A. Koban, Andrew R. Pfluger First published: 19 August 2022 Abstract Considered contaminants of emerging concern, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a class of toxic, manufactured chemicals found in commercial and consumer products such as...
Toxic Burn Pits are Poisoning Central Louisiana
Central Louisiana Coalition for a Clean & Healthy Environment: Fighting for ZERO Open Burning/Open Detonation in New RCRA Permit September 22, 2022 -- Clean Harbors Colfax is the only commercial open burning/open detonation (OB/OD) facility in the United...
Lawsuit Challenges Cause of Holston Army Explosion
By TESSA WORLEY tworley@timesnews.net, Kingsport Times-News TENNESSEE — BAE Systems employees might not have followed safety protocols, which led to the Jan. 3, 2019, explosion at Holston Army Ammunition Plant, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court....
PFAS Renewed Concern at Badger Ammo
Earlier this month, at a public meeting of the Restoration Advisory Board for the former 7,400-acre Badger Army Ammunition Plant, the Army reported that of the eight PFAS chemicals detected in groundwater at the southern plant boundary in 2018, concentrations of one...
PACT Act Points to Need to End Open Air Burning and Detonation on Guam
From the office of the Honorable Senator Sabina Flores Perez, Guam Hagåtña, Guam – Last week, President Biden signed into law the bipartisan PACT Act, which expands healthcare and benefits for Veterans exposed to toxic exposures, which include Agent Orange,...
Final Signing of PACT Act to Care for Burn Pit Victims!
Bipartisan legislation supported by CSWAB and other members of the national Cease Fire Campaign to give all generations of toxic-exposed veterans their earned health care and benefits under the Veterans Affairs (VA), was signed into law today by U.S. President Joe...
Viequenses Call for Ban on Toxic Burning by Military
Testimony before the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization Michael Urayoan Connelly Reyes Representing Vidas Viequenses Valen, Vieques, Puerto Rico 20 June 2022 We’re an island population with a backstory of more than six decades residing downwind of...