Defense Environment Alert -- The Defense Department has selected Alex Albert Beehler, a key environment official with petrochemical giant Koch Industries, to head its environment office. DOD announced it was naming Beehler as assistant deputy under secretary of defense for environment, safety, and occupational health Dec. 4. The post, which does not require Senate confirmation, was vacated in August when President Bush appointed John Paul Woodley Jr., in a recess appointment, to lead the Army Corps of Engineers. Beehler will...
