Mapping The Military's Pollution

The armed services are 1 of America's biggest together with nigh prolific polluters of the environment. The U.S.A. armed services together with its contractors are the exclusively people inwards the U.S.A. withal allowed to dispose of hazardous waste matter using highly polluting 'open burn' sites. It makes amount role of this exemption.

ProPublica has been investigating the military's role of opened upwards burn downwardly sites together with the potentially lethal pollution that they cause. In Open Burns, Ill Winds they examine how the armed services gets rid of hazardous cloth at a potentially huge terms to the wellness of people living nearby.

ProPublica has for the kickoff fourth dimension mapped all of the military's 'high' together with 'medium risk' hazardous sites across the country. Bombs inwards Your Backyard is an interactive map which shows the place of electrical flow together with old armed services locations which comprise toxic pollutants together with contaminants inwards the reason or water. It besides shows armed services sites that comprise explosives or discarded armed services munitions.

If you lot choose a province from the drop-down card you lot tin sentiment a listing of the armed services installations inwards the province amongst the nigh high & medium opportunity sites. The map sidebar besides includes a listing of the release of armed services installations inwards each province amongst high & medium opportunity hazardous sites.