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Article

1 Jan 2003

Author:
William Kelly, editor and publisher of California Environment Report, in Multinational Monitor

Tanks & Toxics, Planes and Pollution The Ecology of a Military Build-Up [USA]

...Environmental contamination from defense hardware manufacturing dots the U.S. landscape...Communities around defense plants that increase production in the new military boom will face more emissions of pollutants...which especially could affect the health of sensitive populations [refers to Nuclear Metals Inc. (now Starmet), Rocketdyne (now a subsidiary of Boeing and formerly operated by Rockwell International), Lockheed, Northrop Grumman, Vought Aircraft]