Judge says fire retardant drops are polluting streams but allows use to continue
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A judge has ruled that the U.S. Forest Service can keep using chemical retardant to fight wildfires, despite finding that the practice pollutes streams in western states in violation of
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A judge has ruled that the U.S. Forest Service can keep using chemical retardant to fight wildfires, despite finding that the practice pollutes streams in western states in violation of
A judge ruled that U.S. Forest Service's chemical retardant that is dropped on wildfires is polluting streams in violation of federal law, but can keep being used to fight fires.
The ruling came after environmentalists sued the government for dropping the red slurry material into waterways hundreds of times over the past decade.
Halting the use of the red slurry material could have resulted in greater environmental damage from wildfires, said U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen.
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