the us' pre-emptive onslaught against Iraq may not have won it many friends, but the Pentagon continues to enjoy the support of a strange bedfellow: the United States Environmental Protection Agency (usepa). In what is seen as fresh evidence of the watchdog body's whole-hearted cooperation, the epa has approved of a legislation sought by the Pentagon to exempt it from a broad range of environmental laws.

Backed by the us administration, the Pentagon wants certain regulations