Dangerous Pollutants In Militarys Open Burns Greater Than Thought, Tests Indicate
Source: National Memo
Reprinted with permission from ProPublica.
The federal government appears to have significantly underestimated the amount of lead, arsenic and other dangerous pollutants that are sent into the air from uncontrolled burning of hazardous waste at the Radford Army Ammunition Plant in Virginia, according to a draft of a long-awaited report compiled by researchers at the Environmental Protection Agency.
The report details results from air sampling done last September and October at the Radford plant above an open field where piles of waste from the manufacture of weapons explosives are set afire daily. The plumes drift directly towards an elementary school and residents a little more than a mile away, but the Army and regulators have long maintained that the pollution level is safe, based on its computer-modeled estimates.
Now, it turns out, some of those estimates were wrong.
The data shows that five substances were found at levels greater than the EPA’s models had predicted, meaning that previous health-risk analyses completed by regulators for the burns at Radford did not fully take into account the potential exposure of the surrounding population.
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Where oh where is Scott Pruitt on this issue now that he is in charge.................sitting with the industry telling them "don't worry I got your back"
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What happens?....All you have to know is in the above 4 paragraphs of the OP.
.Now, this is not new news that open burning is very dangerous..This danger has been known for many years. I think it was in the 60s that the City of Chicago, where I grew up, outlawed open burning. 50 years ago. How do I know??.. People used to burn leaves that fell off of trees on the streets....So, you would have leaf fires on many streets, that sometimes got out of hand. Then, the city issued new laws about leaf burning..no more..for a number of reasons, one of which was the pollution.......filth in the air..
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Why do you think open burning is outlawed in many states and cities and counties.. .......................How can the military do this???
and I asked my mother what is that, and the only thing she would tell me was to come inside the house, then I asked my step father and he would say they can do it.........................now I wonder what I got and who is responsible?
