The US Naval station in Virginia Beach had spilled an estimated amount of 94,000 gallons of jet fuel into a nearby waterway situated less than a mile from the Atlantic Ocean, last week. Apparently the news seems to be somewhat overlooked by the mainstream media and news agencies.

Producing more hazardous waste than the five largest U.S. chemical companies combined, the U.S. Department of Defense has left its toxic legacy throughout the world in the form of depleted uranium, oil, jet fuel, pesticides, defoliants like Agent Orange and lead, among others.

n 2014, the former head of the Pentagon’s environmental program told Newsweek that her office has to contend with 39,000 contaminated areas spread across 19 million acres just in the U.S. alone.

U.S. military bases, both domestic and foreign, consistently rank among some of the most polluted places in the world, as perchlorate and other components of jet and rocket fuel contaminate sources of drinking water, aquifers and soil. Hundreds of military bases can be found on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) list of Superfund sites, which qualify for clean-up grants from the government.

Almost 900 of the nearly 1,200 Superfund sites in the U.S. are abandoned military facilities or sites that otherwise support military needs, not counting the military bases themselves.

On another note, US president Donald Trump’s newly proposed fiscal budget plan 2018 plans to slash sanction on EPA ( Environmental Protection Agency) by a third from $8.2 billion to $5.65 billion. The budget proposal has already been released on Tuesday.

Amongst all the chaos, agitated by non-experts denying man-made climate change all over the internet, North Carolina meteorologist Greg Fishel issued a challenge to climate deniers, urging them to “put up or shut up” and “submit your work the way real scientists do, and see where it takes you.”