Army Reverses Plan on Environmental Cuts

[maddezmom]

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The Army's about-face came after The Associated Press reported earlier Thursday details of a memorandum that instructed base commanders to shift money out of environmental programs.


"We will be able to continue all the environmental programs, the summer hires and particularly the force protection ... that we previously thought we would have to defer," Phil Sakowitz, deputy director for the Army's new Installation Management Activity command, told the AP in an interview.


Maj. Gen. Anders Aadland, in a May 11 e-mail obtained by the AP, had ordered garrison commanders worldwide to "take additional risk in environmental programs." He told them to "terminate environmental contracts and delay all non-statutory enforcement actions" until the beginning of the government's next fiscal year in October.


Aadland's four-page message also said the money saved from the cuts could be shifted from "force protection, environmental and other accounts" toward other needs. Force protection involves keeping personnel safe from terrorist and other unconventional attacks.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&ncid=536&e=5&u=/ap/20040528/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/army_environment

[struggle4progress]

1. I guess when they reverse plans again ...

it won't be a "new" story and so nobody will cover it. :(