It wasn’t clear to me exactly what that meant, either. Reports made to environmental agencies may be falsified for national security, avoidance of public alarm,

It wasn’t clear to me exactly what that meant, either. Reports made to environmental agencies may be falsified for national security, avoidance of public alarm, and cleanup-avoidance reasons. Many of the activities here are secret and classified, after all. My interpretation is that this would mean they have been altered to cover up alarming facts about pollution as well as to not inform rivals about weapons research activities. The federal government has been battling the state about environmental cleanup for 40 years. For example, they wanted a permanent nuclear waste disposal site at Los Alamos - state of NM doesn’t agree.