Jun 30 2008
Pentagon vs. EPA
Just when you think it can’t get worse…it does. Be prepared to experience frustration and disappointment when you read the following article at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/29/AR2008062901977_pf.html. It discusses how the Pentagon has been noncompliant with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). It’s interesting how the government is one body but cannot manage to abide by its own laws. But the most irritating fact of the story is that we, the public, are at risk due to the Pentagon’s unwillingness to properly clean up its 25,000 contaminated properties. Some contaminants are cancer causing and nothing is being done to preserve the groundwater at these sites.
Although the EPA is continuing to fight the Pentagon and attempt to make it comply, it’s government vs. government so suing isn’t an option here. Maybe one day our nation will be on the same page, but I’m sure the Pentagon won’t do anything until something really bad happens.
Outrageous. I do not know how the EPA is now going to demand with a straight face of any private entity, that they invest millins of their and their investors dollars in cleaning up after themselvels while the defense department is out there openly flouting the laws. I understand that with every dollar spent on cleaning up comes one less dollar going to defense expenses, but for god’s sake, when we are talking about cancer causing agents in our water supply, there is no justification for the kind of extensive circumvention of the rules that are above detailed
Solution: children of all elected officials and miltary personell be required to drink regularly from all water sources polluted. I wonder if the people in charge’s children were the ones directly at risk if there attitudes would change.