Defense Environment Alert -- Environmentalists claim the Pentagon's draft environmental impact analysis for its planned Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) does not adequately address impacts from perchlorate use and fails to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), according to recent comments on the study. The programmatic environmental impact statement for BMDS "not only does an inadequate job of addressing the environmental impact of solid rocket propellant associated with this program, but it seems to ignore the purpose of...
