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Petitioners want strong regulatory safeguards built into the pollution discharge permit, which the Navy has agreed to obtain after more than a century of unchecked weapons testing in the Potomac River, in violation of the Clean Water Act.
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After more than a century of test-firing weapons into the lower Potomac River, the Navy this week agreed to seek a “permit for discharges of pollutants” from the state of Maryland for the Navy’s largest test-firing ground, 50 miles south of D.C.