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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)

McCain's answers A Q&A on John McCain's climate platform, issued by his campaign	David Roberts	13 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: carbon sequestration, carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate equity, John McCain, national security, politics (all these topics)

MoJo uncovers the eco-spies	David Roberts	11 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: business, Greenpeace, insanity, national security, shenanigans (all these topics)

I Spy Something Green Security firm spied on green groups, documents show		11 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 12:42 PM on 11 Apr 2008 It wasn't all in your imagination: Private security company Beckett Brown International spied on Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and other big environmental organizations in the late 1990s through at least 2000, according to documents obtained by Mother Jones. To produce intelligence reports for PR firms and corporations involved in environmental kerfuffles with green groups, BBI operati ...
Topics: Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, insanity, national security, news (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)

Blacking out the wild blue yonder DOD panel calls out power grid disruption threat	Patrick Mazza	31 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: national security, energy, electricity grid (all these topics)

Just 'cause	David Roberts	10 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: national security, politics (all these topics)

Navy responds	David Roberts	05 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: oceans, wildlife, national security (all these topics)

Navy sonar newspeak Propaganda soft-pedals sonar impacts on marine mammals	Erik Hoffner	02 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: wildlife, national security, oceans (all these topics)

Obama and Clinton discuss border wall in last night's debate Will the next president stop construction on the border wall?	Glenn Hurowitz	22 Feb 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Barack Obama, elections, endangered species, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, national security, politics, presidential race 08, wildlife (all these topics)

Radars of the Lost Mark British military may obstruct planned wind farms due to radar fears		04 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 8:33 AM on 04 Feb 2008 Echoing recent concerns of the U.S. military, the British Ministry of Defense has stepped up its opposition to some wind power projects due to concerns over turbines' impact on radar installations. The Ministry of Defense has lately objected to at least four proposed wind farms claiming they'd cause radar troubles; wind farm proponents fear more such opposition in the fut ...
Topics: England, national security, news, wind power (all these topics)

Global warring redux New report compares military and climate spending	David Roberts	31 Jan 2008	Gristmill

Topics: politics, international politics, national security, climate (all these topics)

'Global Warning: The Security Challenges of Climate Change' New report examines the impact of climate change on national security	Joseph Romm	06 Nov 2007	Gristmill

Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate equity, international politics, national security, politics (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)

Big balls, bigger wall Chertoff lies, wildlife dies	Glenn Hurowitz	24 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: endangered species, international politics, jackassery, legislation, Mexico, national security, politics, Texas, wilderness (all these topics)

Protecting the Homeland HSA waives environmental and social laws to keep the Mexicans out	David Roberts	23 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: politics, international politics, national security (all these topics)

South Texas: The new environmental heartland? The green movement of the Rio Grande	Glenn Hurowitz	17 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: international politics, Mexico, national security, politics, Texas, wildlife (all these topics)

Report Barred Judge delays work on border fence per insufficient environmental report		11 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 1:40 PM on 11 Oct 2007 The Bush administration tried to "ram" through an insufficient environmental report and must temporarily cease work on a 1.5-mile-long section of fence on the Arizona-Mexico border, a federal judge ruled yesterday. Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle agreed with the Defenders of Wildlife and the Sierra Club that federal agencies' three-week-long environmental assessment seemed ...
Topics: Arizona, litigation, Mexico, national security, news, politics, Sierra Club (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)

Discover Brilliant: Energy security A strange and old-fashioned way to start a hip, cutting edge conference	David Roberts	17 Sep 2007	Gristmill

Topics: climate, energy, international politics, national security, politics (all these topics)

Fortunately, We've Got It Under Control Warming globe will have major security issues, says think tank		12 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 12:34 PM on 12 Sep 2007 The security implications of climate change resemble those of nuclear war, a security think tank said today. "Fundamental environmental issues of food, water, and energy security ultimately lie behind many present security concerns, and climate change will magnify all three," wrote the International Institute for Strategic Studies, which foresees coll ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, national security, news (all these topics)

9/11, unity, and the chattering of chipmunks The clarity that crisis brings is not necessarily our friend	David Roberts	11 Sep 2007	Gristmill

Topics: environmental movement, national security, politics (all these topics)

Radioactive Flyer International safeguards for nuclear materials are flawed, says report		28 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Radioactive Flyer International safeguards for nuclear materials are flawed, says report As nuclear energy enjoys a renaissance as a touted climate-change fix, a new report identifies significant flaws in the international safeguards meant to keep nuclear materials in reactors (as opposed to, say, the hands of illegal bomb makers). A two-year study by the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center concludes th ...
Topics: energy, national security, news, nuclear power (all these topics)

How much wind and solar could we have gotten for the cost of the Iraq War?	David Roberts	27 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: energy, national security, politics, solar voltaic power, wind power (all these topics)

Climate change as national security threat Yeah or nay?	David Roberts	14 May 2007	Gristmill

Topics: national security, climate change impacts, climate (all these topics)

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