On March 17, Military Toxics Project grassroots Board of Directors decided to launch a national campaign uniting MTP organizations and activists from all issue areas. Our Healthy Communities Campaign seeks to make our military accountable to our communities and our laws for its environmental practices that harm our families, active duty personnel, and civilian employees. Most of the problems that our communities face stem from the fact that our military is above the law: exempt from environmental, worker, and public safety laws, or exempt from most meaningful enforcement. We have identified four key areas of focus for the campaign.

Health Effects - Military toxics have poisoned us, our families, and our communities. We must document the human cost of military toxics and make it a central part of the debate.

Access to Information - We are consistently denied critical information about military toxics that affects our health. MTP will expose the military’ "right to hide" and win access to the information we need to protect ourselves. Military Environmental Responsibility Act - The military is exempted from most laws that protect communities and workers, either because it is completely exempt or because EPA has no enforcement authority. MTP is supporting Congressman Bob Filner’s bill that would make the military accountable to all federal and state environmental, worker, and public safety laws. Enforcement - Even when U.S. EPA has full authority to enforce laws against the military, the agency usually won’t act. We will teach communities how to use the Safe Drinking Water Act to push for cleanup of military toxics, and challenge all EPA regions to show the same courage demonstrated by Region 1 in New England, which has used its authority to protect communities.
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