This We'll Pollute

U.S. of A. military machine together with its contractors are the exclusively people inward the U.S. of A. allowed to dispose of hazardous waste materials at highly polluting 'open burn' sites. It makes amount role of this exemption.

Open burn downwardly sites are banned because of the potentially unsafe levels of air pollution resulting from their use. The Pentagon together with its contractors live 61 opened upward burn downwardly sites amongst no environmental emissions controls across the country. The result, according to the EPA, is that the Pentagon together with its contractors accept contaminated an expanse larger than the province of Florida.

ProPublica has investigated the military's role of opened upward burn downwardly sites together with the potentially lethal pollution that they cause. In Open Burns, Ill Winds they examine how the military machine gets rid of hazardous cloth at a potentially huge terms to the wellness of people living nearby. The article includes interactive maps of the military's active together with abandoned hazardous waste materials sites. The markers on these maps are sized to reverberate the seat out of EPA violations recorded at each site.