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Headline	Author	Published	Section
The Wall's in Your Court Enviros' border-fence appeal turned down by Supreme Court		23 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 10:14 AM on 23 Jun 2008 Homeland Security officials can continue to waive environmental laws to speed construction of a fence on the U.S.-Mexico border, after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by Defenders of Wildlife and the Sierra Club. The groups had argued that the eco-law-waiving power given to Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff in 2005 was unconstitutional. The fence section n ...
Topics: Arizona, Department of Homeland Security, litigation, Mexico, national security, news, politics, Sierra Club (all these topics)

A Tall Border Eco-laws pushed aside for faster building of border fence		01 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 3:14 PM on 01 Apr 2008 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday that it will waive environmental laws in order to finish its 670-mile-long fence along the U.S.-Mexico border by the end of 2008. The waivers will apply to land stretching from California to Texas and will facilitate construction of fencing, towers, sensors, cameras, and roads. Homeland Security has already issued waivers for three p ...
Topics: Department of Homeland Security, Mexico, national security, news, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

Secure for What Ails You Industries get a break on tracking and disclosing dangerous chemicals		06 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 8:31 AM on 06 Nov 2007 The Department of Homeland Security late last week released rules requiring industries to track and disclose large amounts of chemicals potentially alluring to terrorists. Draft regulations released in the spring had been heavily criticized by Big Chemical for their strictness, so the new regulations say, "Try not to put dangerous chemicals out on the sidewalk wit ...
Topics: Department of Homeland Security, national security, news, politics, toxics (all these topics)

Waive Goodbye Chertoff waives environmental laws to continue border-fence construction		23 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 7:26 AM on 23 Oct 2007 Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff waived several environmental laws on Monday in order to continue construction of nearly seven miles of the sprawling fence along the U.S.-Mexico border. Work on the section that crosses the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area near Naco, Ariz., had been halted due to a ruling two weeks ago that the administration had spent ...
Topics: Department of Homeland Security, Mexico, news, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Take Your Chertoff Federal officials claim ethanol, border fence green as can be		02 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 2:11 PM on 02 Oct 2007 Well, phew. Ethanol's not to blame for high food prices and a fence on the U.S.-Mexico border will actually benefit the environment. If we can't believe the top federal farm official and the top federal security official, whom can we believe? From the Archives McCormick and Quits. President of Nature Conservancy resigns. Happy Decouple. States adopt decoupl ...
Topics: agriculture, Department of Agriculture, Department of Homeland Security, energy, ethanol, food, lying liars, national security, news (all these topics)

Polluting the Village to Save It Bush administration cites 'national security' as reason to skirt enviro rules	Amanda Griscom	12 Aug 2004	Muckraker
Bush administration cites "national security" as reason to skirt enviro rules By Amanda Griscom 12 Aug 2004 What are the enviro impacts of a construction project on the U.S.-Mexico border? Photo: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Bush administration has proposed yet another list of environmental sacrifices that it believes America should make for the War on Terror. Last year, President Bush pushed through legislation that exempts military training ba ...
Topics: Department of Homeland Security, environmental non-government organizations, logging, Muckraker, national security, politics, waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Playing De-fence Prominent House Republican Calls for Completion of Border Fence		02 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Playing De-fence Prominent House Republican Calls for Completion of Border Fence Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), chair of the House Armed Services Committee, called on the Bush administration today to complete a major fence project along the westernmost portion of the U.S.-Mexico border despite concerns that such a project could harm habitat for threatened and endangered birds. The California Coastal Co ...
Topics: California, Department of Homeland Security, wildlife (all these topics)

Petroleum Jelly-legs		24 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Petroleum Jelly-legs U.S. petrochemical plants pose security risks to millions of Americans and could be targets of terrorist attacks, but the government has no idea how secure the plants are from such attacks, according to an audit released last week by the General Accounting Office. The audit found that both U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman and Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge want the chemic ...
Topics: Department of Homeland Security, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

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