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Headline	Author	Published	Section
A Force to Be Requisitioned With States say Pentagon bullies them into not enforcing toxic cleanups		19 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 8:52 AM on 19 Sep 2008 Environmental regulators from more than a dozen states have accused the U.S. Department of Defense of retaliating against them for attempting to enforce cleanup of contaminated military-owned sites. "In the worst-case scenarios, the Department of Defense is intimidating a state environmental agency into not pursing enforcement," said Steve Brown of the E ...
Topics: Department of Defense, news, politics, toxics (all these topics)

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		30 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 8:17 AM on 30 Jun 2008 Defying environmental law, the U.S. Defense Department has resisted repeated orders lately from the U.S. EPA to clean up some of the nation's most contaminated places. The DoD/EPA standoff has turned into a bureaucratic pissing match wherein the EPA has asserted its authority to order and oversee cleanup of ultra-polluted Superfund si ...
Topics: Department of Defense, news, politics, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

The Department of Defense (of itself) DOD slows condemning research into its polluting behavior	Liz Borkowski	17 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Back in April, a Government Accountability Office report explained how the White House Office of Management and Budget was holding up the EPA's Integrated Risk Information System assessments. According to GAO, the OMB started requiring an 'interagency review' process allowing agencies that might be affected by the IRIS assessments to provide comments on the documents. As a result, some of these outside agencies can effectively block completion of IRIS assessments, whi ...
Topics: climate, Department of Defense, health, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Garrisoning the global gas station Challenging the militarization of U.S. energy policy	Guest author	13 Jun 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest essay from energy analyst Michael T. Klare. It was originally run on TomDispatch; it is reprinted here with Tom's kind permission. ----- American policymakers have long viewed the protection of overseas oil supplies as an essential matter of 'national security,' requiring the threat of -- and sometimes the use of -- military force. This is now an unquestioned part of American foreign policy. On this basis, the first Bush administration fou ...
Topics: Department of Defense, energy, fossil fuels, Iraq, Nigeria, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Navy Crock-It Sonar will kill some marine life but safeguards are adequate, says Navy		04 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 2:47 PM on 04 Apr 2008 Navy training exercises could expose 94,370 marine mammals to behavior-altering sonar frequencies each year, potentially injuring or killing as many as 30, according to an environmental impact statement released Friday by the Navy. But in its 1,796-page report, the Navy sticks with current safeguards for protecting marine animals, not adopting stricter standards imposed by a fe ...
Topics: Department of Defense, news, oceans, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

Pushing intelligence agencies to weigh in on climate change Like, totally geo-green	David Roberts	02 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Interesting: Senators of both parties are pushing for U.S. intelligence agencies to assess the danger to the nation's security posed by global warming. Sens. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., Wednesday introduced legislation that would 'require a National Intelligence Estimate to assess the security challenges presented by the world's changing climate,' according to a statement from their offices. National Intelligence Estimates, or NIEs, repres ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Congress, Department of Defense, legislation, politics (all these topics)

A Friendly Conservation White House to greens: We should totally do this again some time	Jon Christensen	02 Sep 2005	Soapbox
Say anything. Uncle Sam wants you ... to cooperate on conservation. Not only that, he's willing to listen. At least that's what he says. Earlier this week, St. Louis hosted the White House Conference on Cooperative Conservation. The invitation-only event was modeled after Teddy Roosevelt's 1908 Governors' Conference, which brought all the country's governors, Supreme Court j ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, Department of Defense, Department of Interior, environmental planning, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Woolsey? An interview with geo-green James Woolsey, former head of CIA	Amanda Griscom Little	07 Jun 2005	Main Dish
James Woolsey. Former Pentagon heavies are not known for their breezy candor, so it's a rare treat to come across one who voluntarily describes himself as a tree-hugger, do-gooder, sodbuster, and cheap hawk, all rolled into one. There you have R. James "call me Jim" Woolsey, in a nutshell. Sort of. Over the course of a dozen years, Woolsey held pr ...
Topics: Department of Defense, energy, heroes, interview, national security, politics (all these topics)

Martial Flaw Bush admin fights off environmental restraints on military		14 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Martial Flaw Bush admin fights off environmental restraints on military In the presidential campaign of 2000, Bush vowed to force the military to "comply with environmental laws by which all of us must live," but according to a comprehensive investigation by USA Today, he has done the opposite. Since assuming power, the Bush White House has worked closely with the Defense Depa ...
Topics: Department of Defense, politics, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

The Few, the Proud, the Exempt Defense Bill Will Exempt Military from Species-Protection Laws		24 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
The Few, the Proud, the Exempt Defense Bill Will Exempt Military from Species-Protection Laws The U.S. military may be having trouble achieving its goals in Iraq, but at least it's getting what it wants on Capitol Hill: exemptions from key environmental laws. President Bush today is scheduled to sign a $401 billion defense authori ...
Topics: air pollution, Department of Defense, marine life, oceans, politics, pollution and waste, US Military, US Navy, wildlife (all these topics)

Wolfowitz at the Door		21 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Wolfowitz at the Door As part of the Defense Department's ongoing effort to exempt the U.S. military from environmental regulations, the Pentagon's Paul Wolfowitz has called on military service heads to provide examples of situations in which President Bush should invoke national security to trump eco-protections by fiat. In a memo to the chiefs of the Armed Forces, Wolfowitz, who is deputy defense secretary, wrote, "it ...
Topics: Department of Defense, politics (all these topics)

Military Might What?		06 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Military Might What? After failing last year to wrest from Congress a wholesale exemption from many environmental laws, the Pentagon is trying to rally public support for its campaign this year. The Defense Department says that laws such as the Endangered Species Act have interfered with training and other programs in the past. It's a hassle to have to worry about the well-being of critter ...
Topics: Department of Defense, John Dingell, politics, US Army, wildlife (all these topics)

You're in the Army Now		16 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
You're in the Army Now Environmentalists and the Pentagon have never been the best of friends -- in fact, the folks at the Department of Defense are currently trying to wiggle out of complying with as many environmental regulations as possible in the name of national security -- but it would seem that military leaders can think green when it suits them. The U.S. Army and General Mot ...
Topics: Department of Defense, placemaking, politics, renewable energy, US Army (all these topics)

The Eagle Has Landed -- With a Thump		23 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
The Eagle Has Landed -- With a Thump The U.S. Department of Defense would be permanently exempted from an international law protecting more than 850 species of migratory birds, under a tentative agreement reached between negotiators from the House and Senate and disclosed by environmental groups yesterday. The negotiations began after the Bush administration complained that the 1918 Migratory Bird Tr ...
Topics: Department of Defense, politics, US Military, wildlife (all these topics)

Don't Gag Me With a Heavy Metal Spoon		10 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Don't Gag Me With a Heavy Metal Spoon Despite taking an oath of secrecy regarding their jobs, employees at a nuclear weapons plant in Iowa will be allowed to talk to doctors and scientists about hazardous chemicals to which they may have been exposed, the Pentagon determined in a report issued yesterday. The oaths have posed problems for thousands of current or former employees of the Iowa Arm ...
Topics: Department of Defense, health, Iowa, nuclear power, politics (all these topics)

Interior's Ulterior Motive Behind the scenes at the Bush administration's renewable energy summit	Amanda Scott	07 Dec 2001	Main Dish
Ever since the White House declared energy independence a matter of national security, some unlikely evangelists in the Bush administration have been belting out the clean energy gospel. Case in point: Last week, Gale Norton presided over the first national renewable energy summit in history, co-hosted by the Departments of Interior and Energy. Gale Norton. With its cathe ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Interior, energy, green living, politics, renewable energy, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Home, Home on the Bombing Range Will the military protect the West's last best place?	Susan Zakin, Writers on the Range	07 May 1999	Main Dish
By Susan Zakin and Writers on the Range 07 May 1999 As parks and forests in the West get overrun by tourists who love too much, the millions of acres controlled by the Department of Defense are suddenly looking sexier. In the Sonoran desert, for example, the last best place is a bombing range. It is a sign of the times that the 2.7 million-acre Barry M. Goldwater Bombing Range is now being fought over by conse ...
Topics: Arizona, Department of Defense, politics (all these topics)

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