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ANOTHER VOICE: Defense Dept. ‘leans forward’ on climate change and security

  • RADM DAVID TITLEY, USN (Ret.)

If you Google “arcane bureaucratic tool,” the Department of Defense Directive (DODD) should be high on the results list. That said, these little-known directives can be very influential in how the Pentagon conducts its day-to-day business. However, Robert Work, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, recently signed out a DODD that may just be the most meaningful climate-related document that Defense has released.

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Critics skeptical of US ‘compassion’ for mustangs

  • MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press, SCOTT SONNER, Associated Press
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RENO, Nev. (AP) — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is issuing new policy directives emphasizing “compassion and concern” for wild horses on federal lands in the West, in response to a growing public outcry over alleged abuse during roundups of thousands of mustangs in recent years. Federal laws protecting wild horses since the 1970s require the government to treat them humanely when culling overpopulated herds to reduce harm to public rangeland.