Defense Environment Alert -- A coalition of environmental groups is in the early stages of preparing its response to an expected Defense Department effort to renew a push for environmental exemptions in the fiscal year 2005 defense authorization bill. At the same time, DOD is reaching out to states, trying to convince them of the need for the exemptions Congress excluded from the FY-04 bill. A broad-based coalition that formed in late 2002 to counter DOD's legislative proposal to amend...
