Yesterday the Washington Post’s Lyndsey Layton reported on the Pentagon fighting orders from the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up military bases. In response, Layton reports today that  five Democratic Senators wrote to the Pentagon demanding 12 military bases with "cancer causing" contaminants get cleaned up.

Under the law, EPA can demand that any private company or federal agency clean up toxic chemicals. But EPA can’t sue other federal agencies and the Pentagon has asked other parts of government, namely the Office of Management and Budget, to intervene on its behalf. It’s another indication of the lack of respect the Bush administration has for EPA’s mandate. -MB

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