Wednesday, April 23, 2025
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Defense Environment Alert -- As support mounts among some in Congress and the armed services for small nuclear reactors as a power source for both military and civilian use, the Defense Department is hesitating to embrace the technology due to lingering uncertainty over key issues, industry and DOD sources say.
Defense Environment Alert -- A prominent retired Navy admiral leading efforts to portray climate change as a national security threat says global warming will force sweeping changes in U.S. and allied decisions on the location of military bases, training methods, and planning for future missions.
Defense Environment Alert -- The Obama administration plans to eliminate one of the three politically appointed positions assigned to the Defense Department's installations and environment (I&E) office, according to informed sources.
Defense Environment Alert -- The creation of a new Global Engagement Directorate within the National Security Council will help pull together what until now has been an incoherent response to climate change and energy security by the national security community, a source close to National Security Adviser James Jones says.
Defense Environment Alert -- A forthcoming study conducted by the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) advises the Defense Department to emphasize measures to reduce its demand for energy over the pursuit of alternative liquid fuels, one of the report's authors says.
Defense Environment Alert -- Defense officials carrying out the Quadrennial Defense Review may be urged to consider measures to promote adaptation to climate change, including military-to-military collaboration.
Defense Environment Alert -- The Army will remain focused on energy security -- a multifaceted concept that emphasizes maintaining an available and sustainable supply, along with stressing energy efficiency and demand reduction -- under a comprehensive service-wide plan that the service hopes will drive innovation in energy efficiency and alternative energy generation across the whole economy.
Defense Environment Alert -- The Air Force is increasingly turning its attention to biological feedstocks for the production of synthetic jet fuel, under a new directive from Air Force Secretary Michael Donley that allows researchers to buy significant quantities of so-called "second-generation" biofuels to qualify them for use in military aircraft.
Defense Environment Alert -- As the incoming Obama administration signals its interest in boosting alternative and renewable energy sources, Army energy officials are looking to step up initiatives already underway before the current crop of Bush administration personnel leaves the Pentagon.
Defense Environment Alert -- President-elect Obama's choice of retired Marine Corps Gen. James Jones to be his national security adviser raises questions about possible tensions within the incoming administration over two potentially competing national interests: increasing "energy security" and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Defense Environment Alert -- Under a Sept. 23 deal struck between the House and Senate, lawmakers have scratched plans to grant the Defense Department permission to enter into 10-year fuel contracts with suppliers, squelching what the Air Force considers is a crucial element to the development of a mature market for coal-to-liquids (CTL) fuels.
Defense Environment Alert -- Air Force efforts to obtain long-term fuel contracting authority, a key element of the broader push by the service for coal-to-liquids (CTL) fuels, may have run aground after a negative cost scoring by the Congressional Budget Office.
Defense Environment Alert -- The Army is forcefully rejecting arguments from environmental and community activists opposed to stationing extra troops on Hawaii, according to the service's environmental analysis document issued in support of its "grow the force" initiative in the Pacific.
Defense Environment Alert -- President Bush's push to open up the outer continental shelf (OCS) to oil and gas drilling, as seen by his repeal earlier this month of an executive branch moratorium on such drilling, is reviving fears in the Pentagon that ill-considered energy exploration could compromise military training if drilling platforms appear in or near military training areas.
Defense Environment Alert -- The Navy is fending off efforts by Hawaiian state regulators to place additional restrictions on training with active sonar around the islands, rejecting as illegal new limitations the state has sought to impose under state coastal protection law.
Defense Environment Alert -- The House has approved an amendment to a defense spending bill that states recently enacted restrictions on the federal government's purchase of alternative fuels that produce more lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions than conventional petroleum-based fuels should not interfere with military purchases.
Defense Environment Alert -- A bipartisan group of current and former lawmakers, military officers and security analysts has issued a new report on U.S. security policy -- intended to influence the next administration -- calling for a stronger emphasis on energy security and climate change as critical national security issues.
Defense Environment Alert -- The Defense Department's upcoming energy report is expected to encompass recommendations from a key defense advisory panel to boost energy generation and independence on military installations, according to a defense industry source.
Defense Environment Alert -- Encouraged by environmental groups and Pentagon officials, a group of Senate and House lawmakers has launched a bid to significantly boost funding for the Defense Department's flagship program to prevent encroachment of military bases by urban development.
Defense Environment Alert -- The Army has released its long-awaited supplemental environmental study, ordered by a federal court, backing up its preference for locating a brigade equipped with Stryker armored vehicles in Hawaii.