NYT: Pentagon Is Asking Congress to Loosen Environmental Laws

Pentagon Is Asking Congress to Loosen Environmental Laws
By MICHAEL JANOFSKY
Published: May 11, 2005


WASHINGTON, May 10 - After three unsuccessful tries, the Pentagon is asking Congress again this year to loosen major environmental laws to allow military training exercises around the country to proceed unimpeded.

Military officials say the requested changes, which could be approved this week as part of the defense authorization bill for 2006, are essential to preserve the quality of training and to avoid lawsuits over possible violations of statutes that govern air, water and waste.

With more than 100,000 American military personnel in Iraq, training issues have taken on a heightened sense of urgency, giving the request a better chance of passing this year despite opposition from environmental advocacy groups and state and local governments....

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Dozens of groups have complained to Congress that the military's needs are covered by the laws that they seek to change and that waivers would result in conditions getting worse on and around the nation's military bases, endangering the health of millions of people.

As the owner of 425 active bases and more than 10,000 training ranges, the Defense Department is widely regarded as one of the nation's leading polluters, producing vast amounts of chemicals from ordnance that leach into groundwater, as well as air pollution from military vehicles. The Environmental Protection Agency lists more than 130 Superfund sites on military bases....


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/11/politics/11enviro.html

pieces of legislation out there. Only MASSIVE amounts of people in the streets in a sustained manner can prevent the US military from wiping out the planet.

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

– General Douglas MacArthur

You have to admire the Luciferian logic.

an environmental double whammy today.

Edited to add link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1461470

That the US Military is THE greatest threat to the world since Bush. They need to be SQUASHED and if we have a Dem president the first thing they should do is cut AAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLL military funding and spending.