Tagged with Department Of Defense 
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KBR, Halliburton sued over war-zone’s toxic burn pits 2
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Confronted with the need to dispose of enormous quantities of war-related trash, private contractors working for the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan came up with a simple solution: They burned the trash in big, open pits. Now soldiers, contractors, and civilians have filed a series of class-action lawsuits against the companies behind the burning, saying the smoke from the pits contained toxic chemicals that have left them with severe respiratory problems, chronic infections, and even cancer.
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What could go wrong?
DARPA to investigate geoengineering 0
Posted 8 months, 1 week agoOh, great, DARPA -- the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, an arm of the Defense Dept -- is convening a meeting to look into geoengineering.
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Energy efficiency saves lives 0
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NYT columnist makes a late bid for dumbest paragraph of the year 9
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Cut defense spending in favor of clean-energy investing 5
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Epic Whale
Navy can use sonar despite risk of whale harm, says Supreme Court 16
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A Force to Be Requisitioned With
States say Pentagon bullies them into not enforcing toxic cleanups 3
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Go With the Low
Greens and Navy reach compromise over low-frequency sonar 2
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Blast From the Mast
Groups sue Navy over underwater explosions 1
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To Clean Up or Not to Clean Up ... We're Still on Defense
U.S. Defense Department fighting EPA orders to clean up Superfund sites 3
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DOD slows condemning research into its polluting behavior 1
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Challenging the militarization of U.S. energy policy 6
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Northern Exposure
Melting Arctic ice poses security threat, says Pentagon 4
Posted 1 year, 6 months ago -
Navy Crock-It
Sonar will kill some marine life but safeguards are adequate, says Navy 6
Posted 1 year, 7 months ago -
Navy Been
Navy resumes sonar training off California coast 1
Posted 1 year, 9 months ago -
Where It Stops, Nobody Knows
Navy must adopt safeguards for whales in 2008, says court 0
Posted 2 years ago -
Lejeune Bugged
U.S. Navy must notify N.C.-based Marines of exposure to contaminated water 0
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Play It Again, Uncle Sam
Appeals court overturns ruling, allows Navy to test underwater sonar 1
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Flo Nays
Flo Nays 0
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Disagreement over threat to national security 26
Posted 2 years, 5 months ago