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Headline	Author	Published	Section
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)

Or They Could Stop Waging War Report says U.S. military needs to wean itself from oil		01 May 2007	Daily Grist
Or They Could Stop Waging War Report says U.S. military needs to wean itself from oil A report commissioned by the Pentagon says the U.S. military needs to break its oil addiction. The country used an average of 16 gallons of fuel per soldier per day in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2006, compared to four per soldier per day in the Persian Gulf War and one per soldier per day during World War II. The increase is attributed to cut ...
Topics: energy, news, oil, US Military (all these topics)

Pentagoners Apocalyptic Pentagon report on global warming could spur action on Capitol Hill	Amanda Griscom	25 Feb 2004	Muckraker
We're having a heat wave ... Image: NOAA. A hair-raising Pentagon report [PDF] on the potentially imminent and colossal national security threat posed by climate change has been making its way around the Internet since its release in late January, and this week it picked up considerable speed. Fortune magazine was the first major news outlet to cover the report; the "Cli ...
Topics: climate, environmental non-government organizations, Muckraker, national security, politics, US Military (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)

Crash Test Dummies Energy Dept. Reviews Hazards Posed by Military Aircraft at Yucca Mtn.		20 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Crash Test Dummies Energy Dept. Reviews Hazards Posed by Military Aircraft at Yucca Mtn. Increased military flights over Nellis Air Force Range and the Nevada Test Site will require revising hazard calculations about the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, the U.S. Department of Energy announced yesterday. Earlier this week, a military jet crashed on the Nellis range, the third crash in as man ...
Topics: Department of Energy, nuclear power, US Military (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)

Not-so-secret Agent		12 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Not-so-secret Agent Four decades after the U.S. started using Agent Orange in Vietnam, the two countries will begin working together to assess the effects of the toxic chemical on human health and the environment. Agent Orange is a defoliant that contains TCDD, the most dangerous form of dioxin, which causes cancer, immune system malfunction, and birth defects. The U.S. sprayed millions of gallo ...
Topics: Asia, health, toxics, United States, US Military, Vietnam (all these topics)

Rainforest Crunch Time The U.S. takes the war against terrorism to the Amazon	Chris Colin	26 Nov 2001	Soapbox
United States military forces bombed the Amazon rainforest today, Pentagon officials said. The predawn assault targeted key habitats of several crucial wildlife species, thought to have been dug in for many years. "Parrots hate freedom," President Bush said in a press conference shortly after the first squadron of B-2s left a base in San Paolo. "We will locate those evildoers a ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, politics, US Military (all these topics)

Anti-air Force?		23 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Anti-air Force? In yet another environmental compromise made in the wake of last month's terrorist attacks, the U.S. EPA has backed off from pressuring the Air Force to eliminate the use of the gas Halon in its fighter planes. Although Halon is banned for most purposes because it breaks down the ozone layer, the Air Force continues to use it in F-16s, the most popular planes in its arsenal and the biggest emitters of the gas. Fo ...
Topics: ozone, US EPA, US Military (all these topics)

Starting From Ground Zero What's changed, what hasn't, and what should for the environmental movement	Kathryn Schulz	11 Oct 2001	Soapbox
I was in New York City on Sept. 11, so recently I've seen a lot of things go up in smoke. First there were the airplanes, careening nose-first into the World Trade Center towers and -- it seemed almost uncanny at the time -- failing to emerge on the other side. Then there were the buildings themselves, billowing abruptly into oblivion. Less spectacularly visible, bu ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, New York, politics, US Military (all these topics)

Talkin' 'Bout An Evolution The U.S. should take a cue from nature in its fight against terrorism	Seth Zuckerman	11 Oct 2001	Soapbox
Talk about unimaginative. After the radically unconventional attacks on Sept. 11, the United States government strikes back in the most predictable way possible, by bombing Afghanistan from the air. Instead of studying an obsolete military playbook to plan the U.S. response, we might turn to the steady principles of ecology: After all, organisms have been living with eac ...
Topics: Afghanistan, energy, food and agriculture, toxics, United States, US Military, wildlife (all these topics)

Green Camouflage		04 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Green Camouflage The Pentagon spends about $5 billion a year on its "environmental security program," trying to reduce the environmental impact of the armed services. But many greenies think that's not enough, and up until the terrorist attacks, the military was facing growing pressure to take the environment more seriously. A proposal in Congress would require the mi ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, politics, US Military, water pollution (all these topics)

Sharps Shooter Colorado man cleans up war-game carnage	David Mayfield	26 Jul 2001	Main Dish
The war is over and Dan Sharps is doing a body count. In a thicket of pinyon and juniper trees, something big and violent has cleared a path. Dan Sharps as a tack. Photo: David Mayfield. "Lost arm," Sharps says, gesturing toward one tree clipped of a big branch. "Lost leg," he says, pointing to another. Straight ahead lay the splinters of what was a large pinyon -- a hearty tree but not w ...
Topics: Colorado, land stewardship, US Fish and Wildlife Service, US Military, wildlife (all these topics)

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