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Navy Ship Sinking Pollutes Sea with Toxic PCBs

EPA sued for failure to regulate ocean dumping of PCBs

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San Francisco, CA–(ENEWSPF)–December 9, 2011. Today, conservation groups filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ongoing failure to adequately regulate a federal ship sinking program that pollutes the sea with toxic chemicals. Earthjustice, on behalf of the Basel Action Network and Sierra Club, filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court of Northern California.

The U.S. Navy’s ship sinking exercise program, called SINKEX, uses…

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