The issue focused on the water treatment processes at the Waste Management facility and some of the measures it took to comply with the legal requirements of the TSC. Other documents were requested under the Freedom of Information Act and two of the applications cited concerns about environmental impact of the company's activities.


The request for materials related to Waste Management was in response to a January 2016 FOIA request by the watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), which called on the State Department to turn over more than 1,