Clean Soil is Key to Successful Reuse of Badger Army Lands

Clean Soil is Key to Successful Reuse of Badger Army Lands

Today, CSWAB submitted detailed public comment on a draft Environmental Assessment (EA) by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on the proposed construction and operation of a new 101-acre Dairy Forage Research Center complex along U.S. Highway 12 on former...
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...
PFAS Renewed Concern at Badger Ammo

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...