Defense Environment Alert -- In a break with past years' policy, the Defense Department will not provide funds for EPA staff to oversee cleanups under the 2005 base realignment and closure round, despite recent EPA statements that the agency has been expecting the funds due to the increased workload associated with BRAC. In addition, DOD is ending a practice dating back to the Clinton administration of using formal military-regulatory cleanup teams to coordinate remediation at these bases, military sources say...
