Defense Environment Alert -- The Defense Department last week signed off on a revised perchlorate sampling policy, giving the military services specific criteria to determine whether to sample for DOD-generated perchlorate contamination, while continuing to remain silent on whether to initiate cleanup in response to contamination. Perchlorate is a rocket fuel component. This new interim policy backs off from an earlier draft, which the services criticized as going too far. The policy also calls for compiling sampling results from drinking...
