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Hot zones National Intelligence Assessment finds that climate change poses national security threat	Kate Sheppard	25 Jun 2008	Gristmill
A National Intelligence Assessment of the security challenges presented by climate change, which Congress requested last year, has been completed, and the intelligence community has come to the same conclusion that many have before: Climate change poses a threat to national security. The report looks at the national security implications of climate change through 2030, and concludes that changing weather patterns could contribute to political instability, dispute ...
Topics: climate, Muckraker, national security, news, politics (all these topics)

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)

Notable quotable Bushism will endure	David Roberts	06 Jun 2008	Gristmill
'There has occasionally been voiced the misimpression that a future administration will take a significantly different attitude towards climate than this administration.' -- deputy national security adviser Dan Price
Topics: climate, funnies, national security, politics, quotables (all these topics)

What is it good for? Militarization and progressive change are not compatible	Gar Lipow	25 May 2008	Gristmill
The U.S. military push for coal-based synthetic fuels reminds us that in the long run, solving climate chaos is incompatible with an aggressive military policy. Solutions will ultimately have to draw on traditional American virtues of thrift and cleverness, not the domination and power expressed in the new U.S. Air Force motto: Air Force Above All, which probably sounded more impressive in the original German. Militarization has a long history of pushing us down less ...
Topics: energy, national security, politics, renewable energy (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
The following is a Q&A on John McCain's climate platform, released on Monday by the McCain campaign. I'm posting it here because it gets into more detail than any other published material I've seen. ----- Q&A: John McCain's Climate Platform How does cap-and-trade work? Cap-and-trade is a mechanism that would set a limit on greenhouse-gas emissions (GHG) and create permits or rights to emit equal to the limit on GHG emissions. Entities that are ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate equity, John McCain, national security, politics (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)

Just 'cause	David Roberts	10 Mar 2008	Gristmill
According to a new report from the Government Accountability Office ($ub. req'd), the Dept. of Defense has not yet made a good case for why it should be exempt from a suite of federal environmental laws. To hear the GAO tell it, in fact, the DOD has thrown out a bunch of broad claims without doing any real analysis or citing any actual cases where environmental laws have constrained effective operations. Says the report: ... the department has not provided any specifi ...
Topics: national security, politics (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
Last night's debate included some good news for the embattled wildlife and landscape of the Southwest. In response to a question about whether or not they would slow construction of the border wall under construction in the Southwest, both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton criticized the wall as ineffective and counterproductive. Obama went so far as to say he would 'reverse that policy' of building a wall, while Clinton criticized the wall as 'absurd' and s ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, endangered species, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, national security, politics, presidential race 08, wildlife (all these topics)

Global warring redux New report compares military and climate spending	David Roberts	31 Jan 2008	Gristmill
The Institute for Policy Studies has a new Foreign Policy in Focus report out: "The Budget Compared: Military vs. Climate Security." As you'd expect from the name, it's a close look at how federal dollars are allocated for military vs. climate protection, and as you'd expect from, you know, being awake, there's an enormous disparity. It's pretty astonishing nonetheless. Here are the reports major findings: FINDING: For every dollar allocated for sta ...
Topics: climate, international politics, national security, politics (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
John Podesta and Peter Ogden of the Center for American Progress have written a chapter titled 'Global Warning: The Security Challenges of Climate Change,' for a report called 'The Age of Consequences: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Global Climate Change.' They describe their work as follows: During the course of the past year, a high-level working group of foreign policy experts, climate scientists, historians, and other specialists has met ...
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
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced yesterday that he's going to just waive the Endangered Species Act, the Toxic Waste Disposal Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (among many others) in order to plough ahead with building a wall along the Arizona-Mexico border in the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area. He repeated his rationale that the wall could be good for the environment because migrants ...
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
Attentive readers of Grist's news feed will know that yesterday Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff waived a few laws in order to get going on the 700-mile border fence between the U.S. and Mexico. A judge ruled a few weeks ago that Chertoff was steamrolling the environmental review process and should halt construction immediately, but since one of those lovely post-9/11 laws gave Chertoff the power to waive whatever the fck laws he wants, that didn't have much ...*
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
Yesterday, Grist published my investigation of why the environmental movement has been relatively slow and cautious in fighting the U.S.-Mexico border wall, one of the greatest manmade disasters to ever strike the Western landscape and Western wildlife. Of course, these articles have to be readable, so I wasn't able to delve into all the details of the politics of the border wall. But I wanted to share with Gristmill readers the part of the investigation that didn't m ...
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)

Discover Brilliant: Energy security A strange and old-fashioned way to start a hip, cutting edge conference	David Roberts	17 Sep 2007	Gristmill
I'm in a session about 'Energy, Climate Change & Resource Nationalism' with General Bruce Wright, commander of U.S. Air Force in Japan, and Dr. Liam Fox, Shadow Secretary of State of Defence and Member of Parliament in the UK. These are old-school guys, fairly conservative, and they're painting a grim picture. China is ravenous, buying up energy resources in a geostrategic way, growing its military capability. Russia is practically owned and operated by Gazprom an ...
Topics: climate, energy, international politics, national security, politics (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
I've had a post rattling around in my head for a while now, and the anniversary of 9/11 seems like apt moment to finally have a go at it. One of the most uncomfortable facets of the attacks on 9/11 is that as horrific as they were, they were also, for lack of a better word, bracing. It sounds awful to say so, but on some level everyone recognizes it. So much of our daily life is spent in a rut, plodding through workaday details. Crisis has the effect of strip ...
Topics: environmental movement, national security, politics (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
Paul Gipe does the math.
Topics: energy, national security, politics, solar voltaic power, wind power (all these topics)

'Eco-terrorism': Are they really terrorists?	David Roberts	14 May 2007	Gristmill
A federal judge will hear arguments tomorrow, and her ruling will have enormous implications. It's one of those forks in the road: do we continue down the path toward a police state, or unclench our post-9/11 butts a little and remember that sometimes a misguided ahole with a dogma and a book of matches is just a misguided ahole with a dogma and a book of matches?
Topics: eco-terrorism, politics, national security (all these topics)

'Eco-terrorism': the latest	David Roberts	12 May 2007	Gristmill
This is some scary sh*t.
Topics: eco-terrorism, environmental movement, national security, politics (all these topics)

More on climate and national security The hits keep on comin'	Joseph Romm	09 May 2007	Gristmill
Senate Foreign Relations Testimony on the grave threat to our nation's security posed by global warming: Admiral Joseph W. Prueher (PDF), USN (Ret.), Former Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific Command and Former Ambassador to the Peoples Republic of China; General Charles F. Wald (PDF), USAF (Ret.), Former Deputy Commander, U.S. European Command; and Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly (PDF), USN (Ret.), Former NASA Administrator, Shuttle Astronaut and the First Commander of ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, national security, politics (all these topics)

U.S. military steps it up Maybe the Pentagon can persuade red-staters	JMG	16 Apr 2007	Gristmill
The military -- which tends to insist on operating in a reality-based world, as a matter of self-preservation -- thinks global heating is a big threat. A bit from the story: Today, 11 retired senior generals issued a report drawing attention to the ability of climate change to act as a 'threat multiplier' in unstable parts of the world. The Army's former chief of staff, Gen. Gordon R. Sullivan, who is one of the authors, noted he had been 'a little bit of a skeptic' when t ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, national security, politics (all these topics)

Greening geopolitics Friedman in the NYT Magazine	Maywa Montenegro	15 Apr 2007	Gristmill
What's red white and blue, and green all over? The cover of this week's New York Times Sunday Magazine. In 'The Greening of Geopolitics,' Thomas Friedman applies his trademark econo-politico-historical analysis to the state of the global environment, and he is nothing if not comprehensive. From China, Schwarzenegger, and Wal-Mart, to Islamic fundamentalism and oil prices, Friedman traces the connections. Enviros won't learn much about global warming they didn't al ...
Topics: business, energy, environmental movement, green living, greening biz operations, national security, politics (all these topics)

The Warm on Terror Bipartisan bill calls for intelligence assessment of climate impacts	Amanda Griscom Little	05 Apr 2007	Muckraker
How might U.S. national security be threatened by mega-droughts, coastal flooding, killer hurricanes, food scarcity, and the other ecological calamities scientists widely predict will occur if global warming continues apace? Is climate change the real ticking bomb? Photo: iStockphoto No one knows, but Sens. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) think it's time to f ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, legislation, Muckraker, national security, politics (all these topics)

Get the Chertoff My Back States worry as Homeland Security issues chemical-plant rules		03 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Get the Chertoff My Back States worry as Homeland Security issues chemical-plant rules Funny story: Of the 15,000 U.S. chemical plants, as many as 7,000 are in highly populated areas and at high risk for an accident or attack. Ha! Yesterday, the Department of Homeland Security released the first comprehensive federal rules for tracking the security of such sites. Which seems good, until you realize many s ...
Topics: national security, news, politics, state politics (all these topics)

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