Pentagon fights EPA on pollution cleanup

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Chemicals dumped at bases deemed threat to public health, environment


WASHINGTON - The Defense Department, the nation's biggest polluter, is resisting orders from the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up Fort Meade and two other military bases where the EPA says dumped chemicals pose "imminent and substantial" dangers to public health and the environment.

The Pentagon has also declined to sign agreements required by law that cover 12 other military sites on the Superfund list of the most polluted places in the country. The contracts would spell out a remediation plan, set schedules, and allow the EPA to oversee the work and assess penalties if milestones are missed.

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[ladjf]

1. An example of the arrogance of power. Who's going to make them

comply? The President? The Supreme Court? Congress?

We now have a government that routinely ignores the laws of the Country.