Defense Environment Alert -- Senators from Kentucky and Colorado are maintaining pressure on the Defense Department to fully fund the alternative chemical weapons destruction program, and not revert back to an earlier policy that effectively put the program in "caretaker status." In an Aug. 12 letter to DOD acquisition chief Kenneth Krieg, the senators say they believe the department is weighing various options for the fiscal year 2007 budget for the Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (ACWA) program, which is destroying...
