Toxins on the firing range: over military protests, the EPA orders cleanups of unexploded ordnance

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The Environmental Protection Agency, in January 2000, ordered the military to clean up unexploded ordnance that may pollute groundwater near the Massachusetts Military Reservation on Cape Cod. The military questions the potential of the weapons to pollute water, and is concerned for the safety of clean-up personnel.

Social policy, Armed Forces, United States. Environmental Protection Agency, Ordnance

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Sound judgments

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The effects of the US Navy's use of low frequency active sonar on marine mammals such as whales are discussed. The likely cause of death of whales beached in the Bahamas in March 2000 and the impacts of undersea noise are explored.

Equipment and supplies, Submarines, Whales, Sonar systems, Military electronics industry, Submarine boats

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Pirate Fear: Controversey heats up about chlorfenapyr, a.k.a. Pirate - a pesticide some claim is the next DDT

Article Abstract:

Cotton growers have only one effective pesticide that works against their most destructive pest, the beet armyworm. But the toxicity of chlorfenapyr has led the Environmental Protection Agency to withhold approval.

Cotton (Fiber), American Cyanamid Co., ACY, Pesticides, Diseases and pests, Cotton, Cotton (Fibre)

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