The Pentagon earlier this month named high-level House Republican staffer Benedict Cohen to be the Defense Department's top attorney on environment issues. Cohen became the DOD's deputy general counsel for environment and installations at the beginning of January, a DOD spokeswoman says. The position entails providing legal advice on environmental, military construction, facilities management and BRAC issues, according to DOD's web site. Cohen was executive director of the House Republican Policy Committee for seven years; before that he was the...
