Defense Environment Alert -- The Defense Department is undertaking a "major effort" to catalog exactly where environmental laws and other types of encroachment are limiting training plans, following heavy criticism over the lack of hard data showing military readiness impacts from encroachment factors, such as environmental requirements. DOD officials plan to soon inform congressional armed services committees that their study will be ready in January 2004, one year past a congressional deadline, DOD sources say. DOD's study will look at...
