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Cyber(in)security: An Environmental Calamity Lying in Wait?

Vermont Law

Cyberattacks pose obvious threats to infrastructure and financial institutions, but they also create major environmental threats. Any dam, chemical plant, or nuclear power plant that uses computers is a savvy hacker away from being an environmental disaster. Cyber(in)security: An Environmental Calamity Lying in Wait?

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A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making

Circle of Blue

The failures at Homestake are emblematic of the toxic legacy of the American uranium industry, one that has been well-documented from its boom during the Cold War until falling uranium prices and concerns over the dangers of nuclear power decimated the industry in the 1980s.

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Arguments over Solar Geoengineering Research

Legal Planet

A similar recent case is the gain-of-function research on viruses with human pandemic potential that was subject to a funding moratorium between 2014 and 2017 – although this was controversial, because the same research may help develop vaccines or treatments.

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Raytheon Makes Nuclear War More Likely

Corp Watch

USA: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) orders Raytheon, Air Force to clean up contaminated groundwater at Tucson Airport Superfund Site Environmental Protection Agency | July 13, 2007 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today ordered the Raytheon Company and the U.S.

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The "Patriots" at Raytheon

Corp Watch

USA: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) orders Raytheon, Air Force to clean up contaminated groundwater at Tucson Airport Superfund Site Environmental Protection Agency | July 13, 2007 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today ordered the Raytheon Company and the U.S.

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Ukraine conflict a boon for defense industry

Corp Watch

USA: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) orders Raytheon, Air Force to clean up contaminated groundwater at Tucson Airport Superfund Site Environmental Protection Agency | July 13, 2007 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today ordered the Raytheon Company and the U.S.

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How Biden’s Foreign-Policy Team Got Rich

Corp Watch

USA: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) orders Raytheon, Air Force to clean up contaminated groundwater at Tucson Airport Superfund Site Environmental Protection Agency | July 13, 2007 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today ordered the Raytheon Company and the U.S.