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Go With the Low Greens and Navy reach compromise over low-frequency sonar		13 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 3:16 PM on 13 Aug 2008 The U.S. Navy and environmental groups have reached a compromise in a long-running dispute over the Navy's use of low-frequency sonar, which greens say can befuddle whales and sometimes cause them to beach and die. The Navy on Tuesday agreed to restrict use of low-frequency active sonar in areas known to be whale breeding grounds or key habitat. "We don't have to choose between nation ...
Topics: Department of Defense, litigation, news, oceans (all these topics)

Blast From the Mast Groups sue Navy over underwater explosions		30 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 1:29 PM on 30 Jul 2008 Environmental groups are up in arms about training exercises conducted by the U.S. Navy -- not sonar this time, but underwater explosives. The Wild Fish Conservancy and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility have filed a federal lawsuit against the Navy, saying its practice of training divers to explode dummy mines in Washington State's Puget Sound poses an unacceptable hazard to salmon, o ...
Topics: Department of Defense, litigation, National Marine Fisheries Service, news, oceans, Washington, wildlife (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)

Northern Exposure Melting Arctic ice poses security threat, says Pentagon		14 May 2008	News
Posted at 10:09 AM on 14 May 2008 Waterways made navigable by melting Arctic ice pose a security threat to the northern U.S. border, says the Pentagon. The shrinking ice cap has led to increased interest in tourism and energy development in the Arctic, and the extra traffic makes the Pentagon wary. "The Arctic is a new area that is important to us because of the changes in ice flows," says Air Force General Gene ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, Department of Defense, national security, news (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)

Navy Been Navy resumes sonar training off California coast		28 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 12:16 PM on 28 Jan 2008 As a legal battle rages on over the U.S. Navy's use of whale-addling sonar, the military maritimers have resumed sonar training off the California coast. source:� Associated Press From the Archives Take Me Down to Paradise City. U.S. sets low expectations for this week's climate meeting. 3-2-1 ... Blast Offsets! Efficacy of House of Reps' carbon offsets questioned. 'Paign and Su ...
Topics: California, Department of Defense, news, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Where It Stops, Nobody Knows Navy must adopt safeguards for whales in 2008, says court		14 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 11:54 AM on 14 Nov 2007 Update on the seemingly endless saga of whether the U.S. Navy should restrict underwater sonar use in the interest of whale health: A federal appeals court has ruled that while the Navy may continue its current training exercises in southern California as is, exercises that begin in January must operate under better safeguards for marine mammals. The plan will have to be appro ...
Topics: California, Department of Defense, litigation, news, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Lejeune Bugged U.S. Navy must notify N.C.-based Marines of exposure to contaminated water		01 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 10:14 AM on 01 Oct 2007 Some 1 million Marines stationed at North Carolina's Camp Lejeune between 1958 and 1987 drank, cooked with, and showered in toxic water; under a defense reauthorization bill amendment recently approved by the Senate, the U.S. Navy would be required to, um, let them know. The federal government closed the base's wells in the mid-'80s after confirming they were contaminated w ...
Topics: Department of Defense, health, news, North Carolina, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Play It Again, Uncle Sam Appeals court overturns ruling, allows Navy to test underwater sonar		04 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 4:23 PM on 04 Sep 2007 It's the controversy that keeps on controversing: The U.S. Navy wants to test underwater mid-frequency sonar. Marine advocates say such testing effs up whales and other marine mammals. Repeat. (Grist has been writing about this issue since 1999, and we have never reused a headline. Thank you.) Anyhoodle, here we go again: last month, a federal judge ordered the Navy to ...
Topics: Department of Defense, litigation, news, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Flo Nays Federal judge halts Navy sonar exercises off California coast		07 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Flo Nays Federal judge halts Navy sonar exercises off California coast A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Navy to stop using mid-frequency active sonar in exercises off the Southern California coast through 2009. Noting that the Navy's own evaluation says the sonar exercises could disrupt marine mammal behavior in as many as 170,000 instances, Judge Florence-Marie Cooper fou ...
Topics: California, Department of Defense, litigation, news, NRDC, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Spinning the news on Cape Wind Disagreement over threat to national security	Erik Hoffner	16 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Cape Wind claims to have cleared another hurdle today. From their press release: Today's Department of Defense (DOD) report is good news for Cape Wind. The report clearly finds Cape Wind to be outside of the wind-turbine offset zone being proposed for PAVE PAWS radar systems. Now the DOD has reached the same determination as the U.S. Air Force -- that Cape Wind will not negatively impact the Air Force PAVE PAWS radar system. This report puts to rest in a final for ...
Topics: Department of Defense, energy, renewable energy, US military, wind power (all these topics)

Congress stepping up on climate and security Finally recognizing environmental threats to national security	Geoff Dabelko	03 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Building on Dave's link yesterday: Last week, the Senate's number two Democrat Dick Durbin and Republican Senator Chuck Hagel proposed a bill calling for a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) to assess the threat of climate to the United States and abroad. Refreshingly, the bill requires a 30-year time horizon. Climate scientists will still find this window painfully small, but security analysts (and the rest of government, frankly) will recognize this as progress ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Department of Defense (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)

Cease Fire Coast Guard will cease target practice at Great Lakes		20 Dec 2006	Daily Grist
Cease Fire Coast Guard will cease target practice at Great Lakes In a win for lovers of safety and the environment, the U.S. Coast Guard has withdrawn a plan to conduct machine-gun firing practice in the Great Lakes. After much complaining from boaters, Canadians, congressfolk, local mayors, and other sane people opposed to toxic lead bullets flying amok, a regional Coast Guard commander admitted the plan was " ...
Topics: Department of Defense, Great Lakes, news (all these topics)

Bluster's Last Stand DOD declares wind turbines can interfere with radar, but says some can proceed		29 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Bluster's Last Stand DOD declares wind turbines can interfere with radar, but says some can proceed The Defense Department has finally completed a long-awaited study on how wind farms impact military radar, which clears the way for some stalled wind projects to continue. At least a dozen projects in Illinois, North Dakota, and Wisconsin had been put on hold pending the ...
Topics: Department of Defense, energy, Illinois, news, North Dakota, wind power, Wisconsin (all these topics)

Green Is the New Camouflage U.S. general in Iraq calls for renewable power		07 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Green Is the New Camouflage U.S. general in Iraq calls for renewable power The latest dirty hippie to issue an urgent call for renewable power is ... U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Richard Zilmer. The top U.S. commander in western Iraq recently sent the Pentagon a "Priority 1" request for solar panels and wind turbines to augment traditional diesel generators. (What's nex ...
Topics: Department of Defense, energy, Iraq, news, solar voltaic power, wind power (all these topics)

With This Ping, I Thee Dead Judge temporarily restricts Navy's sonar use to protect whales		05 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
With This Ping, I Thee Dead Judge temporarily restricts Navy's sonar use to protect whales The U.S. Navy is temporarily forbidden to use high-intensity sonar in war-game exercises off the coast of Hawaii, a federal judge declared on Monday. She ruled that environmental groups had provided "considerable convincing scientific evidence that the Navy's use of ... sonar can kill, injure, and disturb m ...
Topics: Department of Defense, Hawaii, news, oceans, US Navy (all these topics)

Club Afoot Sierra Club sues Pentagon for holding up new wind farms		29 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Club Afoot Sierra Club sues Pentagon for holding up new wind farms The Sierra Club is suing the Defense Department for effectively halting new development of wind farms in the name of homeland security. The suit charges that the department failed to complete a congressionally mandated study on how wind turbines affect military radar by a May 8 deadline; at least 15 new wind projects await comp ...
Topics: Department of Defense, energy, news, Sierra Club, wind power (all these topics)

Under the Radar FAA shuts down work on proposed wind farms		02 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Under the Radar FAA shuts down work on proposed wind farms The Federal Aviation Administration has shut down work on at least 15 Midwest wind farms pending ... wait for it ... more research. Last year, Sen. John Warner (R-Va.), a critic of the Cape Wind project planned for Nantucket Sound, added an amendment to a military spending bill directing the Defense Department to study wind turbines' effec ...
Topics: Department of Defense, energy, Midwest, news, wind power (all these topics)

Let Him Without Synfuel Cast the First Stone Air Force tests synfuel in jets		16 May 2006	Daily Grist
Let Him Without Synfuel Cast the First Stone Air Force tests synfuel in jets The Air Force consumes more than half the fuel used by the entire U.S. government; in fiscal year 2005, it guzzled 3.2 billion gallons of jet fuel at a cost of $4.7 billion. Under a directive from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the military is conducting tests to determine whether jets can fly on fuel blended with a synthetic liqui ...
Topics: Department of Defense, news, water pollution (all these topics)

All That He Can Be Craig Williams took on the Pentagon to stop chemical-waste burning	Michelle Nijhuis	27 Apr 2006	Main Dish
"We're a little outnumbered, and a little outspent," says Craig Williams, "but we've turned around decisions by the biggest bureaucracy on the planet." Williams, founder of the nonprofit Chemical Weapons Working Group and a cabinetmaker by trade, has been fighting for more than two decades to ensure that the U.S. military disposes of chemical weapons safely. C ...
Topics: Department of Defense, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Left Behind Pentagon aims to avoid cleanup costs by attacking EPA science		30 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Left Behind Pentagon aims to avoid cleanup costs by attacking EPA science Confused over who they're supposed to be killing -- their enemies? themselves? -- the Defense Department in recent years has often defied U.S. EPA recommendations for environmental cleanups and toxicity standards. Case in point: A 2001 EPA draft report estimated that the chemical trichloroethylene (TCE) -- a widespread water pollutant fou ...
Topics: Department of Defense, news, toxics, US EPA (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)

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