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Toxins on the Firing Range [Preview]

Over military protests, the EPA orders cleanups of unexploded ordnance

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CAPE COD--In 1997 U.S. Army veteran Paul Zanis led military and Environmental Protection Agency officials to a buried stash of 1,100 mortar rounds, some live, located several hundred yards from a housing

development. Zanis--an airplane mechanic who dresses in guerrilla garb and clandestinely roams the 22,000-acre Massachusetts Military Reservation on Cape Cod on his dirt bike scouting for pollution violations--also


This article was originally published with the title Toxins on the Firing Range.



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