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In formal <a href="CSWAB%20UPDATE">comments</a> submitted to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality today, the coalition is calling for the immediate implementation of safer alternatives that will protect human health and the environment. <o:p></o:p></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>“Open burning and detonation of energetics and explosives-contaminated wastes results in the uncontrolled dispersion of toxic and carcinogenic emissions including heavy metals, energetic compounds, perchlorate, nitrogen oxides and other munitions-related contaminants to the environment,” the coalition wrote. </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-autospace:none'>The groups are objecting to current operations and a pending permit modification for the Clean Harbors facility in central Louisiana. If approved, the threshold for open air burning of reactive and explosives-contaminated wastes would increase from 480,000 pounds to over 2 million pounds per year. The permit is currently issued pursuant to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), a federal law that ironically prohibits all open burning of hazardous waste. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-autospace:none'>”The current and expanded RCRA permit for Clean Harbors Colfax does not comply with federal laws and regulations which ONLY allow for open burning and detonation of hazardous waste which cannot safely be disposed of through other modes of treatment,” the letter to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality said.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-autospace:none'>“As the Department is well aware, safer technologies have been implemented and permitted elsewhere including Super Critical Water Oxidation, Static Detonation Chambers, Detonation of Ammunition in a Vacuum-Integrated Chamber (DAVINCH), Controlled Detonation Chambers, and Hydrolysis,” the coalition emphasized. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-autospace:none'>The 700-acre Clean Harbors commercial facility currently receives, stores, and treats over 300 energetic/reactive waste streams in solid, sludge, and liquid forms. These hazardous wastes include fireworks, detonators, propellants, power charges, shaped charges, igniters, fuses, bulk high explosives, rocket motors, detonating cord, air bag inflators, and explosives-contaminated debris. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'>The joint letter was organized by Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger (CSWAB), a Wisconsin-based environmental justice organization that has worked on military cleanup issues for more than 25 years. CSWAB is a co-founder of the Cease Fire Campaign, a national grassroots initiative to end open air burning, detonation and incineration of toxic military wastes. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>HOW YOU CAN HELP:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'>Colfax, Louisiana is just one of approximately 100 communities where open air burning of hazardous wastes is still occurring. Sign the petition to EPA at <a href="http://cswab.org/get-involved/alerts/">http://cswab.org/get-involved/alerts/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'>To LIKE the Cease Fire Campaign, visit <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ceasefirecampaign/">https://www.facebook.com/ceasefirecampaign/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:6.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-autospace:none'>--<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#77933C'>THANK YOU</span></b><span style='color:#0000C4'> to the following organizations that co-signed formal comments to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt'><span style='color:black'>California Safe Schools, Los Angeles, CA</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Crawford Stewardship Project, Rolling Ground, WI<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Midwest Environmental Justice Organization, Madison, WI<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Center for Public Environmental Oversight, Mountain View, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Peaceful Skies Coalition, Arroyo Hondo, NM<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Kentucky Environmental Foundation, Berea, KY<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Barron Park Association Foundation, Palo Alto, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Camp Minden Citizens Advisory Group (CMCAG), Minden, LA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Citizen Action New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Louisiana Progress Action, Baton Rouge, LA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Volunteers for Environmental Health and Justice, Kingsport, TN<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Green Cross International, Washington, DC<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Frederick Citizens for Bio-lab Safety, MD<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>nstitute for Science and International Security, Washington, DC<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Alaska Community Action on Toxics, AK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Texas Campaign for the Environment, TX<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Military Toxics Project, TN<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Physicians for Social Responsibility Wisconsin, WI<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Wisconsin Environmental Health Network, Madison, WI<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>California Communities Against Toxics, Rosamond, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Protect All Children's Environment, Marion, NC<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Voluntary Cleanup Advisory Board, Denver, CO<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Wisconsin Resources Protection Council, WI<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Louisiana Bucket Brigade, LA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Center for Health, Environment & Justice, VA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Defense Depot Memphis Tennessee Concerned Citizens Committee, TN<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>WI Coalition to Ground the Drones, Madison, WI<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Louisiana Bucket Brigade, LA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger, Merrimac, WI<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-autospace:none'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#6666FF'>--<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#6666FF'>Laura Olah, Executive Director<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#6666FF'>Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger 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