[CPEO-MEF] EPA RESISTS PENTAGON'S EFFORTS TO LOOSEN POLLUTION RESTRICTIONS

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EPA RESISTS PENTAGON'S EFFORTS TO LOOSEN POLLUTION RESTRICTIONS
from The Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON -- For years, environmental restrictions have limited the
military's use of low-altitude training flights over certain lands that 
harbor endangered species.

And just recently, the Interior Department told the Army that it could
use the California desert to prepare its troops for Afghanistan only if 
exercises were conducted during daylight and on roads.

The Pentagon had hoped that in George W. Bush, it had found a president 
who would lift these kinds of environmental restrictions in the name of 
national security. But now it could find itself locked in a bureaucratic 
battle with the Environmental Protection Agency, whose career staff has 
prepared for trench warfare against what it views as the Defense 
Department's assault on long-standing environmental rules and laws.

For full story see

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-000024412apr05.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dscience

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