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  • Arnold AFB brings home DOD environmental award

    The 704th Civil Engineer Squadron's environmental flight has earned the 2006 Secretary of Defense Natural Resources Management Award in the large installation category. The award recognizes excellence in managing natural resources to support the military mission and stewardship mission goals of the

  • Engineers garner DOD environmental restoration award

    Dover Air Force Base was recently named the winner of the 2006 Secretary of Defense Environmental Restoration Award. Members of the 436th Civil Engineer Squadron garnered the recognition for managing the best environmental restoration program in the Department of Defense. Earlier this year, Dover

  • Environmental center gets new name, added responsibilities

    The Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence, with headquarters here, has been renamed the Air Force Center for Engineering and the Environment, Air Force officials announced May 31. The agency's acronym, AFCEE, will remain the same. Its new designation "more accurately reflects the

  • Columbus AFB earns state recycling award

    The Mississippi Recycling Coalition has named Columbus Air Force Base as the Federal Government Recycler of the Year for the third consecutive year, acknowledging the base's continued excellence in promoting installation and community awareness for recycling initiatives and programs. "The Columbus

  • Air Force begins environmental cleanup of Guam dumpsite

    The Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence at Brooks City-Base, Texas, is managing the project to clean up a 62-year-old dumpsite near Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. AFCEE contractor Shaw Environmental and Infrastructure, Inc., has begun the two-year-long job of removing waste from the Urunao