An environmental group filed a lawsuit against U.S. Forest Service officials on Tuesday for allegedly polluting waterways during their battles against wildfires by inadvertently dropping large volumes of chemical flame retardant into streams.
BILLINGS, Mont. —
The main ingredients in fire retardant are inorganic fertilizers and salts that can be toxic to some fish, frogs, crustaceans and other aquatic species.It requests a judge to declare the pollution illegal, and was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Montana by Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics.
Forest Service officials in recent years have sought to avoid pollution from retardant by imposing buffer zones around waterways where drops are restricted.
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