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• Putting their money
Over the past year or so, American consumers have been confronted by a series of alarming issues: mass recalls of Chinese imports, environmental woes, rampant consumerism, the industrialization of food.  The growing awareness of how these issues ...
• Outdoorsman survives grizzly attack
Canadian environmental officers tracked down the grizzly that attacked Case. They shot and killed it, but there are plenty of other bears out there as the population continues to expand. “We're looking at anywhere from 80,000 to 100,000 in the ...
• Iran could spark nuclear arms race
Environmental concerns could limit development, too: Jordan's proposed nuclear site near the Gulf of Aqaba could damage the area's ecosystem, for example.
• EPA climate rule at least a year away
WASHINGTON - A decision on whether carbon dioxide endangers public health as a greenhouse gas will probably be made by the next administration, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency said Monday. EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson said "as a ...
• Official: EPA chief at first backed Calif. request
WASHINGTON - The head of the Environmental Protection Agency initially supported giving California full or partial permission to limit tailpipe emissions — but reversed himself after hearing from the White House, according to a deposition revealed ...

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» Campaign for US Base Clean Up - Network of organizations and individuals working to clear U.S. military toxics and for bases clean up in the Philippines.
» The Environment and Military Strategy - Col. Richard Fisher article in U.S. Air Force's Air and Space Power Chronicles. Recommends that adverse environmental effects from war should be minimized and that strategic force planning apply an environmentally responsible force.
» Environmental Change and Security Project - ECSP is part of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC. Publications explore issues of environment, population, and security.
» Environmental War Desk - Primer and FAQ on environmental war. Information about HAARP (High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) using high-powered radio transmissions. Designed to control ionospheric processes that might alter the performance of communication and surveillance systems.
» Environmental Warfare - Provides a chapter from Unless Peace Comes by Gordon J. F. MacDonald.
» Environmental Warfare: 1991 Persian Gulf War - Analysis of environment pre/post war by professor Paul R. Baumann, Department of Geography, State University of New York.
» The Military and the Environment - Videos from the Center for Defense Information (CDI) about the military and the environment. Includes photos, transcripts and related links.
» Military Toxics Project - Provide resources in the struggle to clean up military pollution, safe-guard the transportation of hazardous materials, and to advance preventative solutions to the toxic and radioactive pollution caused by military activities.
» Somalia Environmental Protection and Anti-desertification Organisation (SEPADO) - A voluntary non-governmental organization, formed during the summer of 1996 to combat environmental problems in war-torn Somalia.
» Toxic Nazi Legacy Threatens Europe - Report of concerns about German chemical weapons dumped off the Danish coast by Britain at the end of World War II.
» UNEP Balkans - United Nations Environment Programme is conducting environmental assessments and clean-up in Albania, in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
» UNEP Post-Conflict Assessment Unit - United Nations body with specialized environmental expertise work in areas of the world where the natural and human environment has been damaged as a consequence of conflict. Information on current activities, maps, publications, press and photos.
» U.S. Army Environmental Center - Department of the Army located on the Aberdeen Proving Ground. Provide information on US environmental restoration programs.