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. DOD General Counsel William Haynes sent the department's proposed defense authorization legislation, along with a section-by-section analysis, to Congress March 11. In a cover letter to House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL), Haynes says the White House Office of Management and Budget has cleared the legislative...
