Army Seeks To Go Green

• Susan Phillips
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  Susan Phillips tells stories about the consequences of political decisions on people's every day lives. She has worked as a reporter for WHYY since 2004. Susan's coverage of the 2008 Presidential election resulted in a story on the front page of the New York Times. In 2010 she traveled to Haiti to cover the earthquake. That same year she produced an award-winning series on Pennsylvania's natural gas rush called "The Shale Game." She received a 2013 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Journalism Award for her work covering natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania. She has also won several Edward R. Murrow awards for her work with StateImpact. In 2013/14 she spent a year at MIT as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow. She has also been a Metcalf Fellow, an MBL Logan Science Journalism Fellow and reported from Marrakech on the 2016 climate talks as an International Reporting Project Fellow. A graduate of Columbia School of Journalism, she earned her Bachelor's degree in International Relations from George Washington University.

The White House announced several green army initiatives aimed at reducing the use of fossil fuels on the battlefield. The “Army Green Warrior Convoy” is a new lab located in Detroit that will test and develop fuel cell, hybrid, and battery technologies for military vehicles. The Obama Administration also announced a competition to design new energy storage systems to use in combat, which could be converted to civilian use. The Department of Defense has been developing biofuels for use in fighter jets. The DOD is currently taking proposals to build commercial sized bio-refineries. The Defense department also wants to develop fuel efficient weapons, and start relying on more renewable energy sources. The goal is to be using 25 percent renewables on military bases by 2025.

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