Department of Defense
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Veterans and their families are grappling with the military’s toxic legacy
Many military bases are Superfund sites. Here's what it means for our vets' health.
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The Department of Defense wants to protect itself from climate change threats it’s helping to spur
The Defense Department is planning for climate change, it's also the department emitting the most carbon.
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The water crisis the Trump administration didn’t want you to know about
A new study shows U.S. drinking water is contaminated with high levels of chemicals that are harmful to humans -- even in very low doses.
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The Department of Defense wants to put out fires by yelling at them
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DanOeC2EpeA&feature=player_embedded] Much to pundits’ disappointment, you can’t solve most environmental ills just by yelling at them. But, as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has discovered, it does work for one thing: fires. DARPA’s “Instant Fire Suppression” program uses sound to put out flames — and it doesn’t even need to be that loud.
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What did Obama say about energy last night?
We at Grist List know more or less how your State of the Union experience went last night: You intended to watch it, but oooooh, you forgot there was a new Downton Abbey episode you hadn’t watched yet. You started watching the speech, but booooooring! You changed the channel/zoned out/got distracted by YouTube. Or you […]
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The military's historic embrace of smart energy
The U.S. military's embrace of energy efficiency and renewable energy is going to be one of the great stories of the coming decade.
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The Climate Post: Everybody loves clean energy, but nobody wants to pay for it
Utilities don't want to pay to meet renewable energy standards, so it's a good thing the Department of Energy is attempting to lead the clean revolution
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Kick ass or buy gas?
The Pentagon — BP’s best friend?Photo courtesy of Wikipedia commons This essay was originally published on TomDispatch and is republished here with Tom’s kind permission. Residents of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida are livid with BP in the wake of the massive, never-ending oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico — and Barack Obama says they […]
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Four stories that should have changed the media narrative … but didn’t
One of the most frustrating things about covering national energy politics is that conventional wisdom in D.C. never seems to change. The incestuous circle of journalists, pundits, lobbyists, and lawmakers known as The Village has its own set of narratives about climate/energy policy. Those narratives are a) completely at odds with the rest of the […]
