The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is requesting public comment on proposed regulations that will allow for the open burning and detonation (OB/OD) of waste explosives. In communities across America, open burning and detonation of energetic hazardous waste...
The Department of Defense, Department of Energy, NASA and the private sector currently operate more than 60 open burn pits across the U.S. and its territories – causing the uncontrolled release of PFAS and other toxic chemicals to the environment. A new federal...
In this national news report by InsideEPA, CSWAB comments on the deeply entrenched resistance by DOD, DOE, NASA and private industry to modernize their hazardous waste treatment systems. EPA has quietly published a compendium of alternatives to open burning/open...
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...
Anchorage, ALASKA — For more than 40 years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has deferred cleanup and closure of a former hazardous waste burning area at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska. If approved, a pending EPA permit will leave this...
“In addition to the vital work of CSWAB in protecting the health of people affected by the Badger Ammunition Plant, the organization serves as a leader in the national environmental health and justice movement to hold the military accountable.”