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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 ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, legislation, Muckraker, national security, politics (all these topics) |
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Get the Chertoff My Back
States worry as Homeland Security issues chemical-plant rules |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: national security, news, politics, state politics (all these topics) |
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Chem Again?
Chemical-safety bill moving oh-so-slowly through Congress |
Amanda Griscom Little |
13 Jul 2006 |
Muckraker |
| An attack on one of the many toxic chemical plants in the U.S. could endanger more than a million people. Environmentalists, security experts, and even the Army surgeon general have been raising the alarm about this threat since Sept. 11, 2001, but Congress has yet to do anything about it. Its latest efforts are being held up by none other than Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), who never passes ... |
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| Topics: James Inhofe, legislation, Muckraker, national security, politics, toxics (all these topics) |
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A geo-green third party?
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David Roberts |
19 Jun 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Thomas Friedman -- la moustache de la sagesse -- has a column up (NYT $elect; reprinted in full here) suggesting that his "geo-green" shtick would be a good basis for a third party presidential candidacy. God love The Mustache for bringing energy issues to a broad audience, but this column is dopey. Let's start with this: What might a Geo-Green third party platform look like? Its centerpiece would be a $1 a gallon gasoline tax, called "The Pa ... |
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| Topics: energy, international politics, national security, oil, politics (all these topics) |
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Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Woolsey?
An interview with geo-green James Woolsey, former head of CIA |
Amanda Griscom Little |
07 Jun 2005 |
Main Dish |
| James Woolsey. Former Pentagon heavies are not known for their breezy candor, so it's a rare treat to come across one who voluntarily describes himself as a tree-hugger, do-gooder, sodbuster, and cheap hawk, all rolled into one. There you have R. James "call me Jim" Woolsey, in a nutshell. Sort of. Over the course of a dozen years, Woolsey held pr ... |
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| Topics: Department of Defense, energy, heroes, interview, national security, politics (all these topics) |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: Department of Homeland Security, environmental non-government organizations, logging, Muckraker, national security, politics, waste, water pollution (all these topics) |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: climate, environmental non-government organizations, Muckraker, national security, politics, US Military (all these topics) |
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Thoughts in the Presence of Fear
A post-Sept. 11 manifesto for environmentalists |
Wendell Berry |
11 Oct 2001 |
Soapbox |
| I. The time will soon come when we will not be able to remember the horrors of Sept. 11 without remembering also the unquestioning technological and economic optimism that ended on that day. II. This optimism rested on the proposition that we were living in a "new world order" and a "new economy" that would "grow" on and on, bringing a prosperity of which ev ... |
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| Topics: economy, innovation, international politics, national security, politics, tech (all these topics) |
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