{"id":4984,"date":"2011-10-25T10:25:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T14:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4984"},"modified":"2011-10-26T10:02:46","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T14:02:46","slug":"morning-read-homeland-security-vs-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/10\/25\/morning-read-homeland-security-vs-the-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Homeland Security vs. the Environment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t often link on the Morning Read to editorials, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20111025\/OPINION01\/710259980\/-1\/opinion\">Watertown Daily Times<\/a> is focusing this morning&#8217;s lead opinion essay on Republican legislation that would free Homeland Security officials from obeying environmental laws.<\/p>\n<p>According to the newspaper, the change would affect all DHS operations within a hundred miles of the Mexican or Canadian borders<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That means agents could operate  without any environmental restrictions in places like Olympic National  Park, Glacier Park, the Great Lakes and Boundary Waters Wilderness Area \u2014  and the St. Lawrence River.<\/p>\n<p>That is not what the national parks  were created for, and they should not be subject to such unregulated  activities. The proposed legislation would allow one federal agency to  proceed as its pleases in areas that contain protected wildlife habitat,  wetlands and waterways.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re talking about waiving laws that  protect habitat and clean air and clean water in national parks and  other beloved places that Americans really cherish \u2014 and that belong to  all of us,\u201d said Jane Danowitz of the Pew Environment Group.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So what do you think?\u00a0 Should green laws be set aside in the interest of national security?\u00a0 Can measures like these really make our borders safer anyway?\u00a0 Comments welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t often link on the Morning Read to editorials, but the Watertown Daily Times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6567,884,6566],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4985,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4984\/revisions\/4985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}