A truck drives past a welcome sign to Joint Base Cape Cod, in Sandwich, Mass. (Steven Senne/AP)

Guard scales back machine gun range plan on Joint Base Cape Cod, but EPA isn't convinced

The Massachusetts Army National Guard's new, scaled-back proposal comes as a response to a critical Environmental Protection Agency draft report released a year ago, which found the range could contaminate drinking water and create a significant threat to public health for hundreds of thousands of year-round residents on Cape Cod.

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