"NATIONAL DEFENSE" ON ENVIRO SECURIT

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@igc.org>]

"NATIONAL DEFENSE" ON ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY
The military-industrial complex is now taking environmental security 
seriously. Perhaps to promote its upcoming environmental symposium in 
Florida, the American Defense Preparedness Association (ADPA) devoted a 
large part of of its March, 1996 edition of NATIONAL DEFENSE to 
military base cleanup, pollution prevention, and other environmental issues.
While some members of Congress still don't see how environmental work 
relates to the principal missions of the U.S. military, weapons 
contractors apparently do. ADPA President Lawrence Skibbie praised 
Deputy Undersecretary of Defense (Environmental Security) Sherri 
Wasserman Goodman in the issue's editorial: 
"Goodman's work in behalf of remediation and restoration, and more 
recently in pollution prevention, has been outstanding. This innovative 
and caring environmental leader has repeatedly stressed the importance 
[of] government working with industry to ensure the U.S. military's 
access to the most advanced technologies.... Despite budget cutbacks 
and pressure from Congress to phase out environmental spending from 
Pentagon accounts, Goodman, Defense Secretary William J. Perry, and 
other leaders have expressed a strong commitment to cleaning up 
hazardous waste at their facilities and of initiating programs that 
will prevent pollution in the future."
Lenny Siegel