Friday, May 10, 2024
Defense Environment Alert -- Key lawmakers and citizen activists are opposing recently revealed DOD plans to severely slash funding for chemical weapons destruction facilities to be built in Kentucky and Colorado, as well as the possible relocation of the stockpiled weapons to other facilities.
Defense Environment Alert -- The Defense Department has drafted its first policy for preventing munitions waste from polluting groundwater supplies outside military bases, an apparent attempt to demonstrate a willingness to voluntarily meet federal and state cleanup standards to bolster a legislative plan for granting the military certain environmental exemptions.
Nine House Democrats are protesting the Pentagon's planned $46 million cut to the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program.
Defense Environment Alert -- A new Defense Department policy appears to place a lower funding priority on the facilities that are under development to destroy assembled chemical weapons through neutralization methods as compared to chemical weapons demilitarization facilities that generally rely on incineration.
InsideEPA.com -- An environmental group that represents Pentagon employees is raising concerns that a draft military directive would ease commitments to comply with environmental regulations in the interest of training and readiness operations.
Defense Environment Alert -- The Defense Department is floating final revisions to an 8-year-old environmental directive in an effort aimed at shifting the Pentagon's focus on compliance with environmental rules to codifying the military's current practice of ensuring environmental needs are working in concert with mission requirements.
Defense Environment Alert -- The Defense Department reported environmental liabilities of $64.4 billion for fiscal year 2004, a $2.9 billion increase over the previous year primarily due to improved accuracy in reporting, according to a recent DOD report.
Defense Environment Alert -- The Defense Department earlier this month joined 10 other federal agencies and departments collaborating on strategies to make more environmentally sustainable decisions when acquiring, using and disposing of electronic assets -- an initiative meant to steer the marketplace toward more environmentally friendly electronic purchases.
Defense Environment Alert, -- A high-level Defense Department official says the Pentagon will scale back budget plans for DOD's innovative chemical weapons neutralization project in Pueblo, CO.
Defense Environment Alert -- Environmentalists claim the Pentagon's draft environmental impact analysis for its planned Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) does not adequately address impacts from perchlorate use and fails to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), according to recent comments on the study.
Defense Environment Alert -- The Defense Department and the military services have not yet determined whether to embrace a Navy proposal for privatizing as many cleanups as possible during the 2005 round of base closure and realignment cleanups, a DOD official said at a state regulators' meeting last week.
Defense Environment Alert -- A high-level Army commander is charging that Army headquarters is cutting spending on conservation programs that help ensure training ranges are maintained, which could jeopardize the service's ability to train on the ranges, according to a memo he sent to the Army's headquarters installations office.
Defense Environment Alert -- The United States and Russia have resolved differences over several issues impeding progress in the U.S.-funded program that aids Russia in destroying its stockpiled chemical weapons, a U.S. defense official said Sept. 17.
Defense Environment Alert -- The Defense Department's environment office is telling the military services to get actively involved in advising local and state governments about preventing urban sprawl from encroaching on military installations.
Defense Environment Alert -- In a reversal, the Army has agreed to improve and ensure the accuracy of the environmental liabilities it reports for its closing bases, and to launch an investigation into alleged false reporting of these liabilities by the base closure and realignment office.
Defense Environment Alert -- Due to disinterest from the Defense Department, a high-level interagency committee that was focused on better coordination across departments regarding land use and environmental concerns has dissolved, sources say.
Defense Environment Alert -- The General Accounting Office is criticizing the Defense Department's recent training range report to Congress, saying it fails to offer a comprehensive plan to address training constraints on its ranges.
The House and Senate armed services committees have refused to include in defense authorization legislation a Defense Department proposal to ease hazardous waste and clean air law requirements for military training operations.
Defense Environment Alert -- An Army environmental training specialist says ongoing deployments in support of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan are providing the service with valuable lessons learned on how well environmental consequences are considered in military operations.
Defense Environment Alert -- The Pentagon's package of legislative requests for the fiscal year 2005 defense authorization bill includes environmental measures that would reverse appellate court rulings on Superfund law and Clean Air Act issues.