EPA Staff Urges Whitman To Fight DOD Exemptions From Environment Laws

By Suzanne Yohannan / March 28, 2002 at 5:00 AM
EPA staff plans to urge Administrator Christine Todd Whitman to oppose a draft Defense Department bill that would grant the military wide-ranging exemptions from key federal environmental laws in order to ease restrictions on military training, according to a confidential draft staff memo obtained by sister publication Defense Environment Alert . An informed EPA source says staff will present an abbreviated version of the memo to Whitman March 28, arguing that the administration should instead use existing national security and...

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