Global Warning | The environment and national security

Submitted by neilzusman on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 14:21

Publication Type:

Web Article

Authors:

Medill National Security Journalism Initiative,

Source:

Global Warning (2011)

URL:

http://global-warning.org/main/

Keywords:

press

Notes:

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Why don't Congressional climate change zombies see that climate change is a national security issue?

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This website is a well-designed student journalism project that includes stories, interactive features, video, and links to documents.

According to a recent New York Times series, leaked EPA documents have exposed a decades-old effort to hide the dangers of natural gas extraction.

Nevertheless it's going full tilt without the scientific, objective regulation, and analysis that important security issues warrant, even though industry experts have known about the many risks it poses to the environment and our health for years. (Neil Zusman, 2011-03-11).

National Security Journalism Initiative

The Medill School of Journalism, a national leader in journalism education for decades, is now with the assistance of a generous McCormick Foundation grant expanding that leadership role into building a specialty, or a sequence of courses, into areas of national security journalism education.

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