Projects:

San Francisco Bay Area:

San Francisco
� Hunters Point Shipyard
�Shipyard Waterfront Park
� Yosemite Slough
� Treasure Island
� Presidio
Alameda
�Alameda Naval Air Station
�FISC Annex
East Bay Housing
Oakland
�Chinatown
Vallejo
�Mare Island Naval Shipyard
Contra Costa County
� Concord Naval Weapons Station
Suisun Bay
� Mothball Fleet

National:

Military & the Environment
RABS

International:

Philippines
Okinawa
Hidden Casualties of War

Program Areas:

Environment
Economics
Justice
Education
Public Partnership
War & the Environment

Project: Military & the Environment

Production and maintenance of military equipment, such as this battleship can be sources of environmental contamination.

The military poses a substantial environmental threat both domestically and overseas. In addition to the potential effects of the tens of thousands of rounds of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons that remain in U.S., Russian, British, French and Chinese arsenals today, military activities have an enormous environmental impact.

Today the U.S. military produces more hazardous waste annually than the five largest international chemical companies combined. The U.S. military controls more than 25 million acres of land (larger than either the state of Tennessee or the Netherlands), contained in 1,800 domestic and about 500 overseas installations.

In the U.S., domestic installations are contaminated with over 20,000 toxic sites, and just under 10% of all bases are on the federal National Priorities List.

Learn more about the sources of military pollution.