Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz is pushing the military services to consider invoking national security exemptions under various environmental laws if environmental requirements are disrupting military training plans. The call is the latest in the military's effort to address what it believes are environmental restrictions on training, but environmentalists say the move may mean overusing exemptions likely warranted only in rare cases. "To date, the Department has worked to protect our military readiness activities without exercising the national security exemption...
