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  • U.S. military: lead-free 'green' bullets may not be so eco-friendly after all

    07/29/2005 4:52:50 PM PDT · by Brian328i · 26 replies · 842+ views
    CNEWS ^ | July 29, 2005 | JAY LINDSAY
    BOURNE, Mass. (AP) - Army officials at a Massachusetts army base said they thought they were being eco-friendly when they started using "green bullets" that contain no lead - a move meant to prevent polluting an aquifer beneath Camp Edwards. But six years later, after a million rounds have been fired at the base's shooting ranges, new information suggests the green bullets may not be much better for the environment than the lead ones. "It's frustrating," Col. William FitzPatrick of the National Guard's Environmental Readiness Center said Thursday. "You're doing what you think are the right things. As science evolves,...