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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...
Pentagon Relies on Antiquated, Dangerous Methods for Hazardous Waste Disposal
by Enid Sisskin, PhD, Director of Gulf Coast Environmental Defense. It's a shocking case of arrested development. In a nation that prides itself on high technology, our federal government is burning and detonating hazardous waste in the open air, using stone age...
Virginia Army Base is National Cancer Hotspot
The 7,000-acre Radford Army Ammunition Plant spans both sides of the New River. (Image from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) VIRGINIA – Researchers at Cancer Control and Population Health Research at the University of Virginia are warning that all...
PFAS in Fish a Risk to Wildlife, not just People
Following is CSWAB's testimony at the recent WDNR public hearing on proposed SURFACE WATER criteria for certain PFAS: My name is Laura Olah and I live in Merrimac, Wisconsin, in rural Sauk County, and I am here today on behalf of Citizens for Safe Water Around...
Wisconsin Watch: ‘Something has to be done’: Living along Madison’s Starkweather Creek, one of Wisconsin’s most polluted waterways.
By Isaac Wasserman / Wisconsin Watch October 7th, 2021 Melody Homesly, left, and Carnetta Galvin stand on a bridge that crosses Starkweather Creek near Galvin’s home of 16 years in the Darbo-Worthington neighborhood of Madison, Wis. Galvin says she was not initially...