EPA: Petition moved to http://cswab.org/get-involved/alerts/

In communities across America, open burning and detonation of hazardous waste explosives results in the uncontrolled release of toxic heavy metals, energetic compounds, perchlorate, nitrogen oxides, dioxins and other carcinogens to the environment, placing the health of our soldiers, workers and neighbors at risk.

It is time to recognize that the exclusion adopted by the EPA in 1980 for the open burning and detonation of waste explosives is no longer relevant. Over the past 15 years, the Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board has certified a number of technologies as safe for the destruction of hazardous wastes which are explosive. These technologies are now in use by the Department of Defense and the private sector for the treatment of explosive hazardous waste.

I urge you to protect human health and the environment by requiring the immediate implementation of safer alternatives to open air burning, open detonation and incineration of military munitions and encouraging solutions that promote waste prevention and recycling.