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Lawsuit Over Kirtland Air Force Base Cleanup | The Line

Satellite map-view depicting a plume's travel direction from an oil spill at Kirtland AFB.

February 7, 2020 – A decades-old fuel leak at Albuquerque’s Kirtland Air Force Base took a legal turn this week, with a filing in federal court from some local groups alleging the Air Force has failed to clean up the toxic plume fast enough. Gene Grant leads the Line panel in a discussion of this…

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Holloman AFB Contamination

1232 Holloman AFB

February 8, 2019 – Environmental Reporter Laura Paskus broke the story this week of massive contamination at Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo. According to a Department of Defense site inspection, the levels of contamination at Holloman are 18,000 times higher than what the federal government says is safe. And the state’s new Secretary of…

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