SEETHING IN SEATTLE
The Navy is firing thousands and thousands of depleted uranium rounds into the waters off of Washington State. And environmentalists are screaming bloody murder, the Seattle Times reports.
The Navy claims that the munitions -- fired from the Phalanx anti-missile system at a rate of 3,000 per minute -- are harmless. But the service is still phasing out the depleted uranium rounds in favor of non-toxic tungsten munitions.
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