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Cumulative Land Cover Impacts of Proposed Transmission Pipelines in the Delaware River Basin

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Transmission pipelines function to transport petroleum products over long distances to connect locations where these products are produced or refined to demand centers. The development of Marcellus shale gas with hydraulic fracturing in Pennsylvania has been accompanied by several proposals for new transmission pipelines. At least eight of these proposed transmission pipeline projects will cross the Delaware River Basin (DRB) to bring natural gas produced from the Marcellus shale play to demand centers on the East Coast, or otherwise connect to the larger petroleum products pipeline network. Each proposed interstate pipeline must undergo a review by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), which includes an environmental impact analysis. The potential environmental impacts of pipeline construction include land cover change, deforestation, sedimentation and erosion, water quality degradation, stream degradation, wetland loss, and air emissions, among others. In this report, we investigate the cumulative land cover change impacts for eight proposed transmission pipelines within the DRB, which total 322 miles in length. Specifically, using geographic information systems (GIS) methods, we investigated total land cover change, loss of forest and wetland area, and stream crossings for the eight proposed projects. We found that during construction, the pipelines’ rights-of-way will impact 2,977 acres, including roughly 1,060 acres of forest, and 41 acres of wetlands. The pipelines’ permanent rights-ofway will impact 1,328 acres, including roughly 450 acres of forest, and 22 acres of wetlands. In addition, we identified 175 likely stream crossings where a proposed pipeline route will cross a perennial stream.

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Impacts of EPA’s Clean Power Plan on Electricity Generation and Water Use in Texas

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed a new rule under the Clean Air Act—the Clean Power Plan (CPP)—to control carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from existing stationary electric power plants. In order to better understand the potential impacts of the rule for water consumption and withdrawals in Texas, a state that is experiencing on-going drought, we apply a power generation policy model to evaluate water use along with other economic and environmental indicators. We explore two scenarios: a Baseline scenario and the implementation of the CPP. We find that the state will save water under the CPP be able to meet the final and interim targets with modest incremental effort.

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Navy Shore Infrastructure Investment Support

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This paper describes the development process that CNA used to create a new methodology for the Navy to assess shore infrastructure readiness for support tasking, and it documents the design concepts for a shore facilities investment model. This model was developed as a programming tool for OPNAV N46 staff to adjust investment project profiles and funding levels to achieve desired performance output levels at the end of the current FYDP. The methodology involved creating measures of merit to quantify the current and future performance levels and a functional segmentation of the infrastructure to provide a greater understanding of shore support capabilities and shortfalls. The new technique required a method for indexing the measures of merit together in a consistent manner to provide the Navy with an ongoing readiness assessment number. It also required the creation of a baseline year infrastructure inventory assessment to use as the starting point for analyzing future year impact of current shore investment funding profiles. We developed a process to quantify the projected impact of proposed military construction and special projects upon the measures of merit.

, homeland defense, theater security cooperation, humanitarian assistance, and peacekeeping operations. As a result, the Navy suspects that the condition, capability, and current and future readiness

Potential Environmental Impact from Fracking in the Delaware River Basin

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This study aims to model the landscape of the Marcellus Shale region to predict how it may change in the future in response to the expansion of natural gas extraction, and, in particular, what impact this may have on the Delaware River Basin (DRB). Our approach combined geospatial analysis and statistical modeling to create a probability surface that predicts the most favorable locations for the placement of future wells based on the location of existing wells. Using the probability surface and an estimate of the number of wells that would be needed to fully exploit the shale resource, we estimated the future landscape of development in the Interior Marcellus Shale and DRB. Using affected subwatersheds and counties as study areas, we then investigated potential impacts associated with land cover, water and wastewater management, water quality due to changes in land cover, air emissions, and health risk factors. The results are intended to help decision-makers and the public

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Leading the Industry in Public Safety and Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)

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Organizations are grappling with decisions about how best to integrate UAS technology safely and efficiently into their operations and their communities. This push to integrate new technology is not a new one; over the last few years police forces across the country have worked through numerous challenges in their mission to integrate body-worn cameras (BWCs) into their operations and procedures.

Institute for Public Research (IPR) has designed, executed, and evaluated more than 350 homeland security exercises since 1999, which have included participants ranging from local first responders

CNA | Testimony by Dr. Jonathon Schroden on withdrawal of U.S. Troops from Afghanistan

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https://www.cna.org U.S. House Homeland Security Committee Hearing April 18, 2023 Testimony by Dr. Jonathon Schroden on withdrawal of U.S. Troops from Afghanistan

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National Security Seminar: Countering Domestic Violent Extremism

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https://www.cna.org This event drew on a range of CNA expertise to explore the complexities of domestic violent extremism and to propose courses of action as the new administration grapples with this growing threat. Tom Plofchan shared insights from his experience as a counterterrorism advisor to the Secretary of Homeland Security, Bill Rosenau provided historical context from his study of domestic terror groups, and Megan McBride shared her perspective as an expert in terrorism, radicalization, and ideological violence. (Originally Published: 2021-03-04)

National Security Seminar: Countering Domestic Violent Extremism https://www.cna.org This event drew on a range of CNA expertise to explore the complexities of domestic violent extremism and to propose courses of action as the new administration grapples with this growing threat. Tom Plofchan shared insights from his experience as a counterterrorism advisor to the Secretary of Homeland Security ... . (Originally Published: 2021-03-04) National Security Seminar: Countering Domestic Violent Extremism https://www.youtube.com/embed/pXKsqlz8K_c Videos

National Security Seminar: Countering Domestic Violent Extremism

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This event drew on a range of CNA expertise to explore the complexities of domestic violent extremism and to propose courses of action as the new administration grapples with this growing threat. Tom Plofchan shared insights from his experience as a counterterrorism advisor to the Secretary of Homeland Security, Bill Rosenau provided historical context from his study of domestic terror groups, and Megan McBride shared her perspective as an expert in terrorism, radicalization, and ideological violence.

National Security Seminar: Countering Domestic Violent Extremism This event drew on a range of CNA expertise to explore the complexities of domestic violent extremism and to propose courses of action as the new administration grapples with this growing threat. Tom Plofchan shared insights from his experience as a counterterrorism advisor to the Secretary of Homeland Security, Bill Rosenau provided historical context from his study of domestic terror groups, and Megan McBride shared her perspective as an expert in terrorism, radicalization, and ideological violence. National Security Seminar

Gordon Jaquith

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, spanning the nuclear enterprise, missile and homeland defense, and advanced technology. Previously, he directed the Naval Forces Division at CAPE and was responsible for investment and warfighting ... holds a B.A. in economics from the University of Rochester, an M.A. in Security Studies from Georgetown University, and a Master of Cost Estimating and Analysis from the Naval Postgraduate School.

Jason McNamara

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Jason McNamara Jason McNamara Director of Business Development /images/About-Us/Leadership/Jason-McNamara.webp Jason McNamara serves as the director of business development for CNA’s Institute for Public Research as well as the director of the Center for Emergency Management Operations. He is an established emergency management and homeland security expert with over 30 years of senior management experience in both the federal government and private sector.  He currently manages multiple CNA engagements with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, including CNA’s support to the FEMA