Environmental Laws Waived to Press Work on Border Fence

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/us/23fence.html?ref=science
By JULIA PRESTON, New York Times
October 23, 2007
Michael Chertoff, the homeland security secretary, waived several environmental laws yesterday to continue building a border fence through a national conservation area in Arizona, bypassing a federal court ruling that had suspended the fence construction.
Citing “unacceptable risks to our nation’s security” if the fence along the border with [...]