Pentagon Staff Say New Directive Would Ease Environmental Commitments

By Suzanne Yohannan / December 22, 2004 at 5:00 AM
InsideEPA.com -- An environmental group that represents Pentagon employees is raising concerns that a draft military directive would ease commitments to comply with environmental regulations in the interest of training and readiness operations. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), in a statement posted on the group's Web site last week, details a number of concerns with the draft directive, arguing that it softens language in a 1996 directive that it would replace on committing the department to complying with all...

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