Factoid/2004/01/16
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US Military to Ask Again for More Environmental and Public Health Exemptions
- "Once again, the Department of Defense is using the war on terrorism as an excuse and an opportunity to jam through Congress broad and unnecessary exemptions for itself from three of our most important public health and environmental protection laws... As former EPA Administrator [Christie] Whitman and numerous state officials have testified, there is no evidence or examples where these three laws have ever adversely impacted military readiness. Never has a set of legislative proposals had so much audacity and so little merit." - quote from Rep. John D. Dingell (D-Mich.) appearing in the Los Angeles Times article, free registration required, at http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-pollute15jan15,1,4898316.story
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