Defense Environment Alert -- Defense Department officials are making changes to the way DOD addresses potential perchlorate contamination, agreeing last week to cooperate with California standards once they become final. The move effectively expands recent promises to cooperate on cleanup in Southern California. And in a related action, the department is on the verge of releasing a new national policy on perchlorate sampling, after making revisions that appear to be amenable to Army concerns, according to military sources. Assistant Deputy...
