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Article: Pentagon asks White House, Justice Department to block hazardous waste cleanup orders
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- June 30, 2008
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The U.S. Defense Department is refusing to comply with orders or sign contracts to clean up 11 hazardous waste sites and has asked the White House and Justice Department to intervene on its behalf.
The dispute between the Pentagon and the Environmental Protection Agency has simmered over the last year after EPA began issuing orders to compel the Air Force and Army to clean up four properties where contamination poses an "imminent and substantial" risk to public health and the environment. To date, the Pentagon has agreed to comply with only one of the orders, at an Air Force missile plant in Arizona.
In separate letters in May to the White House budget office and ...