"Officials Oppose Environmental Exemptions"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Officials Oppose Environmental Exemptions

By JOHN HEILPRIN
Associated Press Writer
April 21, 2004

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration hasn't demonstrated the need
to further ease environmental laws in the name of military readiness,
five state attorneys general, two of them Republicans, said Wednesday.

"This is a solution in search of a problem," Rep. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio,
said during a hearing on the issue by two House subcommittees. "Is this
really about readiness, or is it about another opportunity for
environmental rollbacks by the Bush administration?"

Attorneys general of California, Colorado, Idaho, Utah and Washington
state submitted a statement to the two panels opposing any further
relaxation of environmental standards for the military.

They said the Defense Department has not identified any such conflicts
between military readiness and three laws from which it wants exemptions
"and we are not aware of any."

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Lenny Siegel
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c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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