An Insatiable Desire to Pollute, and No Sense of Responsibility

[Buzz Clik]

Few entities on the planet have the history of environmental rape as the U.S. Department of Defense. Apparently, they have the odd desire to maintain this legacy.

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Pentagon Appeals to White House on Pollution Limits

January 15, 2004

By Elizabeth Shogren,

LA Times

WASHINGTON — The Defense Department, having won exemptions from three major environmental laws in the last two years, now is seeking to be excused from three more.

Requirements of the Endangered Species Act, the Marine Mammal Act and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act already do not apply to the Pentagon. Now it wants exemptions from the Clean Air Act and two toxic waste laws, which Congress has refused to grant in each of the past two years.

So last month, the Pentagon asked the White House to let it fight those battles once more, according to documents obtained by The Times.

Congressional opponents say that the proposed exemptions would cause more damage than the previous ones because they would jeopardize human health.

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