HOW MILITARY OUTSOURCING TURNED TOXIC

In taking on environmental cleanup jobs, contractors
often bring needed expertise to technical tasks the Pentagon isn’t equipped to
do itself. They also absorb much of the legal responsibility for disposing of
military-made hazards, in some cases helping the Pentagon — at least on paper —
winnow down its list of toxic liabilities.
But in outsourcing this work, the military has often
struggled to provide adequate oversight to ensure that work is done competently
— or is completed at all. Today, records show, some of the most dangerous
cleanup work that has been entrusted to contractors remains unfinished, or
worse, has been falsely pronounced complete, leaving people who live near
former military sites to assume these areas are now safe.
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