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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...
Safe Water is Free of Military Toxics
If it feels like nothing has happened in the last few years in terms of cleanup at Badger Army Ammunition Plant – it’s because nothing much has happened. Seriously – we checked. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR), has not received any of the...
Open Air Burning and Detonation of Hazardous Munitions Wastes Will Continue, EPA Memo Says
NATIONAL - EPA Headquarters issued a memorandum today allowing the Departments of Defense and Energy, NASA and private industry to continue routine open air burning and detonation of hazardous munitions wastes as long as certain documentation is provided. The memo...
Central Louisiana Coalition for a Clean and Healthy Environment
Central Louisiana Coalition for a Clean and Healthy Environment (CLCCHE) Public Testimony before the USEPA Office of Resource Conservation & Recovery Calling for a National BAN on Open Burning and Detonation of Hazardous Waste March 22, 2022 My name is...
EPA Plan Falls Short Of Environmentalists’ Call For Ban On Open Burning
by Inside EPA Publishers EPA plans to revise its regulations governing the open burn/open detonation (OB/OD) of waste explosives to require evaluation of alternative destruction methods and may set minimum technical criteria for remaining OB/OD units, but the...
Army Finds Contamination at Site of Underground Fire
The first warning of trouble occurred when a routine prescribed burn of vegetation by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) ignited an underground fire that burned from August 26-28, 2020. Despite millions spent on cleanup, residual soil...
Biden’s SOTU Remarks Drive Calls For New Efforts To Address OB/OD
by Inside EPA Publishers President Joe Biden’s State of the Union (SOTU) call to better address health concerns about military veterans exposed to toxics from overseas “burn pits” is driving new efforts for policymakers to address the issue at home, with...
Wisconsin Natural Resources Board Kills PFAS Groundwater Regulations
by Chris Hubbuch | Wisconsin State Journal - February 23, 2022 Conservatives on Wisconsin’s natural resources board has approved weakened regulations for toxic "forever chemicals" in public water supplies but killed a rule to limit them in groundwater, which one in...